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Welcome to the Brave New World: Lay Definitions of AI at Work and in Daily Life 欢迎来到《美丽新世界：人工智能在工作和日常生活中的定义》

IF 4.1 2区社会学

Social Science Computer Review Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1177/08944393251382233

Wenbo Li, Shuning Lu, Shan Xu, Xia Zheng

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Research on False Information Detection Based on Herd Behavior From a Social Network Perspective 社会网络视角下基于从众行为的虚假信息检测研究

IF 4.1 2区社会学

Social Science Computer Review Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1177/08944393251381801

Tianya Cao, Shuang Li, Junjie Jia

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Conceptualizing, Assessing, and Improving the Quality of Digital Behavioral Data 数字行为数据的概念化、评估和改进质量

IF 4.1 2区社会学

Social Science Computer Review Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1177/08944393251367041

Bernd Weiß, Heinz Leitgöb, Claudia Wagner

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Leveraging VLLMs for Visual Clustering: Image-to-Text Mapping Shows Increased Semantic Capabilities and Interpretability 利用vllm进行视觉聚类：图像到文本映射显示了增强的语义能力和可解释性

IF 4.1 2区社会学

Social Science Computer Review Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1177/08944393251376703

Luigi Arminio, Matteo Magnani, Matías Piqueras, Luca Rossi, Alexandra Segerberg

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Demystifying Misconceptions in Social Bots Research 澄清社交机器人研究中的误解

IF 4.1 2区社会学

Social Science Computer Review Pub Date : 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1177/08944393251376707

Stefano Cresci, Kai-Cheng Yang, Angelo Spognardi, Roberto Di Pietro, Filippo Menczer, Marinella Petrocchi

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Exploring the Dark Tetrad in Human–GenAI Relationships: A Multi-Source Evaluation of GenAI Abuse 探索人类与基因关系中的黑暗四分体：对基因滥用的多来源评估

IF 4.1 2区社会学

Social Science Computer Review Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1177/08944393251378800

Cheng-Yen Wang

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Social Media Influencers as CSR Advocates: The Role of Credibility, Normative Legitimacy, and Public-Serving Motives 社会媒体影响者作为企业社会责任倡导者：可信度、规范合法性和公共服务动机的作用

IF 4.1 2区社会学

Social Science Computer Review Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1177/08944393251376702

Jun Zhang, Li Chen, Dongqing Xu

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The Sociology of Technical Choices in Predictive AI 预测人工智能中技术选择的社会学

IF 4.1 2区社会学

Social Science Computer Review Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1177/08944393251367045

Michael Zanger-Tishler, Simone Zhang

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Learning to Live with COVID-19: Informative Fictions of TikTok Misinformation and Multimodal Video Analysis 学习与COVID-19共存：TikTok错误信息的信息虚构和多模态视频分析

IF 4.1 2区社会学

Social Science Computer Review Pub Date : 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1177/08944393251366232

Zituo Wang, Lingtong Hu, Jiayi Zhu, Donggyu Kim, Xiaojing Bo

{"title":"Learning to Live with COVID-19: Informative Fictions of TikTok Misinformation and Multimodal Video Analysis","authors":"Zituo Wang, Lingtong Hu, Jiayi Zhu, Donggyu Kim, Xiaojing Bo","doi":"10.1177/08944393251366232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393251366232","url":null,"abstract":"The spread of misinformation has historically been attributed to emotions, thinking styles, biases, and predispositions, but only a few studies have explored the conditions influencing its prevalence. The Theory of Informative Fictions (TIF) addresses this gap by presenting propositions that predict the conditions under which misinformation is tolerated and promoted. Building on the literature on TIF and deep learning, we uncover how property messages and character messages differ in veracity and explore the relationship between visual misinformation and user engagement. By constructing a short video dataset Tikcron ( N = 42,201) and a multimodal video analysis framework KILL, we classify TikTok videos as misinformation or not, and property messages or character messages. Our results indicate that character messages are more likely to convey misinformation than property messages, and character messages with misinformation are more likely to get tolerated and promoted by social media users than property messages with misinformation. This study extends the current methodological advancement of image-as-data to misinformation videos and proposes a multimodal video analysis framework to develop communication-centered theories. The broader practical implications of this study on the detection, countering, and governance of visual misinformation are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":49509,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Computer Review","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144898970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Linguistic Affordances Framework: A Linguistic-Sociological Approach for the Social Study of Language Technology 语言能得性框架：语言技术社会研究的语言学社会学方法

IF 4.1 2区社会学

Social Science Computer Review Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1177/08944393251366242

Haley Lepp, AJ Alvero

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