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  • FDS Workshop: AI for Social Science Research Methods

    Social scientists are increasingly incorporating AI into their designs, data collection, analyses, and workflows. Alongside rapid adoption, important methodological questions remain: What are the principled approaches to validating measurements via AI tools? To what extent are AI-generated observations interchangeable with those from human respondents — and what does that mean for the future of survey…

  • Flagging misinformation on social media reduces engagement, study finds

  • FDS Workshop: New Directions in Social Algorithms Research

    As social media algorithms increasingly mediate social experiences, there has been a rapid increase in research on the effects of how these algorithms are configured, alternatives to engagement-centric models of content ranking, and algorithmic approaches to content moderation such as Community Notes. This workshop brings together leading experts in the area to foster collaborations and…