Working Papers

Accepted papers

Talking politics: Building and validating data-driven lexica to measure political discussion quality
Author: Kokil Jaidka

Preprint: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3870554

Code: https://github.com/kj2013/deliberative-politics

Dashboard: https://share.streamlit.io/sriramelango/nus-political-discourse-quality/app.py

The Sentiment is in the Details: A language-agnostic approach to dictionary expansion and sentence-level sentiment analysis in news media
Author: Erik de Vries

Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/8y3jq/

Code: https://github.com/vriezer/sentiment

OSD2F: An Open-Source Data Donation Framework
Authors: Theo Araujo, Jef Ausloos, Wouter van Atteveldt, Felicia Loecherbach, Judith Moeller, Jakob Ohme, Damian Trilling, Bob van de Velde, Claes de Vreese, and Kasper Welbers

Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xjk6t/

Code: https://github.com/uvacw/osd2f

Fifteen Seconds of Fame: TikTok and the Supply Side of Social Video
Authors: Benjamin Guinaudeau, Kevin Munger, Fabio Votta

Preprint: https://osf.io/zvq8w/

Code: https://osf.io/c4xq3/

A framework for privacy preserving digital trace data collection through data donation
Authors: Laura Boeschoten, Jef Ausloos, Judith E. Möller, Theo Araujo, Daniel L. Oberski

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.09851.pdf

Beyond Counting Words: Assessing Performance of Dictionaries, Supervised Machine Learning, and Embeddings in Topic and Frame Classification
Authors: Anne C. Kroon, Toni van der Meer, Rens Vliegenthart

Preprint: https://osf.io/4qt69/

Code: https://github.com/annekroon/dictionaries-vs-sml

Supplementary Materials: https://osf.io/g7caq/

The 4CAT Capture and Analysis Toolkit: A Modular Tool for Transparent and Traceable Social Media Research

Authors: Stijn Peeters, Sal Hagen

SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3914892

Code: https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/4cat

Do I sound American? How message attributes of IRA disinformaiton relate to Twitter engagement
Author: Jiyoun Suk, Josephine Lukito, Min-Hsin Su, Sang Jung Kim, Chau Tong, Zhongkai Sun, Prathusha Sarma

Paper pre-print: osf.io/dvnjm

Code and supplementary materials: osf.io/6b4n5/

CCR Working Papers

As explained in our review policy, we encourage authors to publish a preprint of their manuscript once we reach the "intend to publish" stage. Below are preprints of the papers that are currently under review that we intend to publish assuming that any outstanding issues are resolved. Please note that these papers are not accepted yet and there is no guarantee that they will be eventually published in this journal.