When 2,529 people were offered a free subscription to their local newspapers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Philadelphia Inquirer, only forty-four accepted—less than 2 percent—according to an academic study set to be published this year in the American Journal of Political Science.  Dan Hopkins, a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted the […]

Our DIIF-funded research on Fediverse governance and administration officially begins this month, so we’ve made an informal federated blo...

Since Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter/X and subsequent changes to that platform, computational social science researchers may be considering shifting their research programs to Mastodon and the fediverse. This article sounds several notes of caution about such a shift. We explain key differences between the fediverse and X, ultimately arguing that research must be with the fediverse, not on it.

The Fediverse, a decentralized social network with interconnected spaces that are each independently managed with unique rules and cultural norms, has seen a surge in popularity. Decentralization h...

I made a little web service back in 2015 and somewhere in the following 7 years I forgot about it. I’ve been adding title-casing to various projects and plugins and keep writing new code for it…

It's 2017 in NZ, and our schools aren't producing enough confident, informed digital participants. Sure, they can play games like a boss, but that's just digital consumption.

Introducing the GitHub Classroom CLI extension for the GitHub CLI

"Reading makes us human."

Emily M. Bender, Alexander Koller. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2020.

This morning, trawling the Computer Science sections of Arxiv, as I do most mornings, I came across a recent paper from the Federal University of Ceara in Brazil, offering a new Natural Language Processing framework to automate the summarization and extraction of core data from scientific papers. Since this is more or less what I […]

pCJR · Introducing Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast   There’s a famous scene from the final season of The Wire—y’know, The One With the Newspeople—where cub reporter Alma Gutierrez, new to the show’s (thinly) fictionalized version of the Baltimore Sun, receives a crash course in the paper’s lofty lexical standards: “Gutierrez!” her editor shouts across […]/p

To what extent does the YouTube recommendation algorithm push users into echo chambers, ideologically biased content, or rabbit holes? Using a novel method to e

Hypothesis has just published its first research white paper: “The Value of Social Annotation for Teaching and Learning: Promoting Comprehension, Collaboration and Critical Thinking With Hypothesis,” authored by Dr. Remi Kalir.

Published links to the original sources of the media, quoted text, or other content shared online are increasingly less common. Not that ...

From kindergarten through college, kids weigh in.

Helping behavior between humans has been one of the most influential forces sculpting modern civilizations, but what factors influence this propensity to help? This study demonstrates that a lack of sleep dictates whether humans choose to help each other at three different scales: within individuals, across individuals, and across societies.

A piece of writing aiming to be academic must be 'clear, concise, focused, structured and backed up by evidence'. We believe that Markdown writing tools make it easier to focus on content and thus support the main aim of academic writing. iA Writer has a couple of tricks up its sleeves that other apps do not.

We’re just about to reach 40 million annotations! Here’s to all the annotators out there: We share this milestone with each of you. Read all about it — and find out what else we've been up to lately.

The academic search engine’s policy on name changes is out of step with other search tools and publishers.

It ends a one-year embargo option for publishers.

Disorganized attachment has been studied extensively in the developmental attachment literature, particularly with regard to infants and children. It has not be...

We should focus on raising wages and benefits — not cutting them.

by Elizabeth Feinler and John Vittal

Everything your student needs to succeed.