- See Also
-
Gwern
- “Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding”, Gwern 2018
- “Who Buys Fonts?”, Gwern 2021
- “My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s”, Gwern 2018
- “Littlewood’s Law and the Global Media”, Gwern 2018
- “ARPA and SCI: Surfing AI”, Gwern 2018
- “Parasocial Relationships Online”, Gwern 2020
- “On Development Hell”, Gwern 2020
- “Technology Holy Wars Are Coordination Problems”, Gwern 2020
- “Amusing Ourselves to Death?”, Gwern 2018
- “Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media Lab”, Gwern 2012
- “‘Scanners Live in Vain’ As Realistic SF”, Gwern 2013
- “On the Existence of Powerful Natural Languages”, Gwern 2016
- “The Melancholy of Subculture Society”, Gwern 2009
- “In Defense of Inclusionism”, Gwern 2009
- “Cultural Drift: Cleaning Methods”, Gwern 2013
-
Links
- “Internet Archive Breached Again through Stolen Access Tokens”, Abrams 2024
- “Evaluation of OpenAI O1: Opportunities and Challenges of AGI”, Zhong et al 2024
- “Changes in Need for Uniqueness 2000–2020”, Chopik et al 2024
- “Generative AI Can Harm Learning”, Bastani et al 2024
- “Netnews: The Origin Story”, Bellovin 2024
- “The New Social Landscape: Relationships among Social Media Use, Social Skills, and Offline Friendships from Age 10–18 Years”, Steinsbekk et al 2024
- “The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter”, Wang et al 2024
- “Influencer Cartels”, Hinnosaar & Hinnosaar 2024
- “NewsGuesser: Using Curiosity to Reduce Selective Exposure”, Sun et al 2024
- “Collaboratively Adding Context to Social Media Posts Reduces the Sharing of False News”, Renault et al 2024
- “Tweets to Citations: Unveiling the Impact of Social Media Influencers on AI Research Visibility”, Weissburg et al 2024
- “Loneliness and Suicide Mitigation for Students Using GPT-3-Enabled Chatbots”, Maples et al 2024
- “A Case of Severe Anterograde Amnesia in the Era of Smartphone Technology”, Annese et al 2023
- “Impact of Digital Screen Media Activity on Functional Brain Organization in Late Childhood: Evidence from the ABCD Study”, Miller et al 2023
- “Controlled Experiment Finds No Detectable Citation Bump from Twitter Promotion”, Branch et al 2023
- “Correcting for Endogeneity in Models With Bunching”, Carolina et al 2023
- “No Evidence That Chinese Playtime Mandates Reduced Heavy Gaming in One Segment of the Video Games Industry”, Zendle et al 2023
- “The Ghost Trilemma”, Mukherjee et al 2023
- “YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Is Left-Leaning in the United States”, Ibrahim et al 2023
- “The Unconference Toolbox”, Benn & Zuegel 2023
- “Generic or Specific Search Terms: What Do Citizens Type in the Google Search Bar to Obtain Political Information?”, Zumofen 2023
- “Users Choose to Engage With More Partisan News Than They Are Exposed to on Google Search”, Robertson et al 2023
- “Do Financial Incentives Encourage Women to Apply for a Tech Job? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment”, Feld et al 2023
- “Missing Links: A Comparison of Search Censorship in China”, Knockel et al 2023
- “Understanding Why Searching the Internet Inflates Confidence in Explanatory Ability”, Eliseev & Marsh 2023
- “The Man of Your Dreams For $300, Replika Sells an AI Companion Who Will Never Die, Argue, or Cheat—Until His Algorithm Is Updated”, Singh-Kurtz 2023
- “When Watching TV Shows or Movies in Your Native Language, Do You Generally Prefer to Have the Subtitles on or Off? § By Age”, YouGov 2023
- “Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions: Effect of Context Switching On Prospective Memory”, Chiossi et al 2023
- “Engagement With Fact-Checked Posts on Reddit”, Bond & Garrett 2023
- “The Political Is Personal: The Costs of Daily Politics”, Ford et al 2023
- “Do Users Want Platform Moderation or Individual Control? Examining the Role of Third-Person Effects and Free Speech Support in Shaping Moderation Preferences”, Jhaver & Zhang 2023
- “Anthropomorphism As a Contributor to the Success of Human (Homo Sapiens) Tool Use”, Haslam 2023
- “Shared Genetic Risk in the Association of Screen Time With Psychiatric Problems in Children”, Zhang et al 2023
- “Political Communication As a Tragedy of the Commons”, Farrer 2022
- “The Monitoring Role of Social Media”, Heese & Pacelli 2022
- “Assessing the Validity of Self-Report Social Media Use: Evidence of No Relationship With Objective Smartphone Use”, Mahalingham et al 2022
- “Does the Mere Presence of a Smartphone Impact Cognitive Performance? A Meta-Analysis of the ‘Brain Drain Effect’”, Parry 2022
- “How Digital Media Drive Affective Polarization through Partisan Sorting”, Törnberg 2022
- “Does Sexualization in Video Games Cause Harm in Players? A Meta-Analytic Examination”, Ferguson et al 2022
- “Overperception of Moral Outrage in Online Social Networks Inflates Beliefs about Intergroup Hostility”, Brady et al 2022
- “A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties”, Rajkumar et al 2022
- “Weak Ties, Failed Tries, and Success: A Large-Scale Study Provides a Causal Test for a Cornerstone of Social Science”, Wang & Uzzi 2022h
- “Twitter Use in the Everyday Life: Exploring How Twitter Use Predicts Well-Being, Polarization, and Sense of Belonging”, Mello et al 2022
- “Originality in Online Dating Profile Texts: How Does Perceived Originality Affect Impression Formation and What Makes a Text Original?”, Zanden et al 2022
- “Are Mobile Phone Ownership and Age of Acquisition Associated With Child Adjustment? A 5-Year Prospective Study among Low-Income Latinx Children”, Sun et al 2022
- “The Golden Age Is Behind Us: How the Status Quo Impacts the Evaluation of Technology”, Smiley & Fisher 2022
- “Information Control and Public Support for Social Credit Systems in China”, Xu et al 2022
- “Effects of Restricting Social Media Usage on Wellbeing and Performance: A Randomized Control Trial among Students”, Collis et al 2022
- “‘Where Am I?’ A Snapshot of the Developmental Topographical Disorientation among Young Italian Adults”, Piccardi et al 2022
- “Does Fake News Create Echo Chambers?”, Zhang et al 2022
- “Remote Collaboration Fuses Fewer Breakthrough Ideas”, Lin et al 2022
- “Sweet Unbinding: Sugarcane Cultivation and the Demise of Foot-Binding”, Cheng et al 2022
- “Predicting Romantic Interest during Early Relationship Development: A Preregistered Investigation Using Machine Learning”, Eastwick et al 2022
- “Echo Chambers, Rabbit Holes, and Algorithmic Bias: How YouTube Recommends Content to Real Users”, Brown et al 2022
- “Counteracting Electric Vehicle Range Concern With a Scalable Behavioral Intervention”, Herberz et al 2022
- “Taking a One-Week Break from Social Media Improves Well-Being, Depression, and Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial”, Lambert et al 2022
- “Effects of Violent Media Content: Evidence from the Rise of the UFC”, Lindo et al 2022
- “Virtual Communication Curbs Creative Idea Generation”, Brucks & Levav 2022
- “Subscriptions and External Links Help Drive Resentful Users to Alternative and Extremist YouTube Videos”, Chen et al 2022
- “A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Electronic Performance Monitoring on Work Outcomes”, Ravid et al 2022
- “Being More Educated and Earning More Increases Romantic Interest: Data from 1.8m Online Daters from 24 Nations”, Jonason & Thomas 2022
- “Social Media Use and Its Impact on Adolescent Mental Health: An Umbrella Review of the Evidence”, Valkenburg et al 2022
- “Windows of Developmental Sensitivity to Social Media”, Orben et al 2022
- “Email Mobilization Messages Suppress Turnout Among Black and Latino Voters: Experimental Evidence From the 2016 General Election”, Rivera et al 2022
- “The Conditional Effects of Microtargeted Facebook Advertisements on Voter Turnout”, Haenschen 2022
- “Does Digital Advertising Affect Vote Choice? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment”, Coppock et al 2022
- “TikTok’s Sick-Role Subculture and What to Do About It”, Harness & Getzen 2022
- “Quantifying and Alleviating Political Bias in Language Models”, Liu et al 2022c
- “Building Status in an Online Community”, Smirnova et al 2022
- “A 680,000-Person Megastudy of Nudges to Encourage Vaccination in Pharmacies”, Milkman et al 2022
- “Anchoring in the Past, Tweeting from the Present: Cognitive Bias in Journalists’ Word Choices”, Lee & Hamilton 2022
- “COVID-19 Increased Censorship Circumvention and Access to Sensitive Topics in China”, Chang et al 2022
- “Fast Response times Signal Social Connection in Conversation”, Templeton et al 2022
- “Echo Chambers, Filter Bubbles, and Polarization: a Literature Review”, Arguedas et al 2022
- “Incel Activity on Social Media Linked to Local Mating Ecology”, Brooks et al 2022
- “Can Information Reduce Ethnic Discrimination? Evidence from Airbnb”, Laouénan & Rathelot 2022
- “Social Media and Psychological Well-Being”, Hancock et al 2022
- “Privacy and Information Avoidance: An Experiment on Data-Sharing Preferences”, Svirsky 2022
- “TikTok and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Study of Social Media Content Quality”, Yeung et al 2022
- “The Degree of Heterogeneity of News Consumption in Germany—Descriptive Statistics and Relations With Individual Differences in Personality, Ideological Attitudes, and Voting Intentions”, Sindermann et al 2021
- “The CEO Beauty Premium: Founder CEO Attractiveness and Firm Valuation in Initial Coin Offerings”, Colombo et al 2021
- “Do People Demand Fact-Checked News? Evidence from US Democrats”, Chopra et al 2021
- “Few-Shot Instruction Prompts for Pretrained Language Models to Detect Social Biases”, Prabhumoye et al 2021
- “‘Outside Lobbying’ Over the Airwaves: A Randomized Field Experiment on Televised Issue Ads”, Kalla & Broockman 2021 (page 2)
- “Quantifying Social Organization and Political Polarization in Online Platforms”, Waller & Anderson 2021
- “Project Starline: A High-Fidelity Telepresence System”, Lawrence et al 2021
- “The Mental Health and Well-Being Profile of Young Adults Using Social Media”, Cara et al 2021
- “No Polarization From Partisan News: Over-Time Evidence From Trace Data”, Wojcieszak et al 2021
- “Should Subscription-Based Content Creators Display Their Earnings on Crowdfunding Platforms? Evidence from Patreon”, Crosby & McKenzie 2021
- “Intelligence Can Be Detected but Is Not Found Attractive in Videos and Live Interactions”, Driebe et al 2021
- “Like This Meta-Analysis: Screen Media and Mental Health”, Ferguson et al 2021b
- “The Complex Association between Social Media Use Intensity and Adolescent Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Investigation of 5 Factors That May Affect the Association”, Boer et al 2021
- “Affective Polarization in the Digital Age: Testing the Direction of the Relationship between Social Media and Users’ Feelings for Out-Group Parties”, Nordbrandt 2021
- “Eye Contact Marks the Rise and Fall of Shared Attention in Conversation”, Wohltjen & Wheatley 2021
- “Playlisting Favorites: Measuring Platform Bias in the Music Industry”, Aguiar et al 2021
- “The Psychology of Online Political Hostility: A Comprehensive, Cross-National Test of the Mismatch Hypothesis”, Bor & Petersen 2021
- “Photos Are All You Need for Reciprocal Recommendation in Online Dating”, Neve & McConville 2021
- “Using Administrative Records and Survey Data to Construct Samples of Tweeters and Tweets”, Hughes et al 2021
- “Jack Grealish’s Girlfriend Sasha Attwood ‘Received 200 Death Threats a Day’”, Sinclair 2021
- “A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Discrepancies between Logged and Self-Reported Digital Media Use”, Parry et al 2021
- “There Is No Evidence That Associations Between Adolescents’ Digital Technology Engagement and Mental Health Problems Have Increased”, Vuorre et al 2021
- “Adapting the Selective Exposure Perspective to Algorithmically Governed Platforms: The Case of Google Search”, Slechten et al 2021
- “The Revolution in Classic Tetris: How a Younger Generation Used the Internet to Master the Falling Blocks”, Sweet 2021
- “Man-Bites-Dog Contagion: Disproportionate Diffusion of Information about Rare Categories of Events”, Jang & Shore 2021
- “Exploring the Effects of Algorithm-Driven News Sources on Political Behavior and Polarization”, Feezell et al 2021
- “Personality Classification of Facebook Users According to Big Five Personality Using SVM (Support Vector Machine) Method”, Utami et al 2021
- “Predicting Mental Health From Followed Accounts on Twitter”, Costello et al 2021
- “How Is Science Clicked on Twitter? Click Metrics for Bitly Short Links to Scientific Publications”, Fang et al 2021
- “Facial Recognition Technology Can Expose Political Orientation from Naturalistic Facial Images”, Kosinski 2021
- “Video Game Play Is Positively Correlated With Well-Being”, Johannes et al 2021
- “Growing Up With Grand Theft Auto: A 10-Year Study of Longitudinal Growth of Violent Video Game Play in Adolescents”, Coyne & Stockdale 2020
- “Fresh From Ganymede! § What Is A Book?”, Sloan 2020
- “Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime”, Müller & Schwarz 2020
- “Social Distancing As a Critical Test of the Micro-Sociology of Solidarity”, Collins 2020
- “Guys and Dolls”, Devlin & Locatelli 2020
- “The Daily Grind: Before Millstones Were Invented, the Preparation of Flour for Food Was an Arduous Task Largely Carried out by Women for Hours Every Day. How Did It Affect Their Lives and Why Does It Remain a Tradition in Some Places Even Today?”, Laudan 2020
- “Thou Shalt Not Trust Online Videos for Inguinal Hernia Repair Techniques”, Huynh et al 2020
- “Hidden Incentives for Auto-Induced Distributional Shift”, Krueger et al 2020
- “The Radicalization Risks of GPT-3 and Advanced Neural Language Models”, McGuffie & Newhouse 2020
- “Increases in Depression, Self-Harm, and Suicide Among US Adolescents After 2012 and Links to Technology Use: Possible Mechanisms”, Twenge 2020
- “Skeb Artwork Commissioning Website: Review: Commission Your Favourite Japanese Artists With Auto-Translation”, Worboys 2020
- “Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence From Russia”, Enikolopov et al 2020
- “The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics”, Orben 2020
- “The Impact of Banning Mobile Phones in Swedish Secondary Schools”, Kessel et al 2020
- “Technology and Educational Choices: Evidence from a One-Laptop-Per-Child Program (OLPC)”, Yanguas 2020
- “Texting Students and Study Supporters (Project SUCCESS): Evaluation Report”, Scandone et al 2020 (page 5)
- “To Repress or to Co-Opt? Authoritarian Control in the Age of Digital Surveillance”, Xu 2020
- “How Cameo Turned D-List Celebs Into a Monetization Machine: Inside the Surreal and Lucrative Two-Sided Marketplace of Mediocre Famous People”, Sauer 2020
- “The Welfare Effects of Social Media”, Allcott et al 2020
- “Causal Effect of Video Gaming on Mental Well-Being in Japan 2020–2022”
- “Open Source Migrates With Emotional Distress”, Ronacher 2019
- “Social Media-Predicted Personality Traits and Values Can Help Match People to Their Ideal Jobs”, Kern et al 2019
- “Deepfake Bot Submissions to Federal Public Comment Websites Cannot Be Distinguished from Human Submissions”, Weiss 2019
- “The Universal Decay of Collective Memory and Attention”, Candia et al 2019
- “Release Strategies and the Social Impacts of Language Models”, Solaiman et al 2019
- “Are Social Media Ruining Our Lives? A Review of Meta-Analytic Evidence”, Appel et al 2019
- “It’s the Phone, Stupid: Mobiles and Murder”, Edlund & Machado 2019
- “Be Cautious With the Precautionary Principle: Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident”, Neidell 2019
- “The Economic Effects of Facebook”, Mosquera et al 2019
- “Cross-National Evidence of a Negativity Bias in Psychophysiological Reactions to News”, Soroka et al 2019
- “How Effective Is Nudging? A Quantitative Review on the Effect Sizes and Limits of Empirical Nudging Studies”, Hummel & Maedche 2019
- “Accelerating Dynamics of Collective Attention”, Lorenz-Spreen et al 2019
- “Predicting Individual-Level Income from Facebook Profiles”, Matz et al 2019
- “Team Creativity/innovation in Culturally Diverse Teams: A Meta-Analysis”, Wang et al 2019
- “Status As a Service”, Wei 2019
- “Violent Video Game Engagement Is Not Associated With Adolescents’ Aggressive Behavior: Evidence from a Registered Report”, Przybylski & Weinstein 2019
- “Essays in Applied Microeconomics [OLPC, Natural-Disasters/growth, Silent Spring]”, Yanguas 2019
- “Fraidycat: Follow Blogs, Wikis, YouTube Channels, as well as Accounts on Twitter, Instagram, Etc from a Single Page”, Condor 2019
- “Political Advertising and Election Results”, Spenkuch & Toniatti 2018
- “Sort By Controversial”, Alexander 2018
- “Knitting Community: Human and Social Capital in the Transition to Entrepreneurship”, Kim 2018
- “The Simple but Ingenious System Taiwan Uses to Crowdsource Its Laws: VTaiwan Is a Promising Experiment in Participatory Governance. But Politics Is Blocking It from Getting Greater Traction”, Horton 2018
- “Notes on the Dynamics of Human Civilization: The Growth Revolution”, Greer 2018
- “Increasing Intolerance of Uncertainty over Time: the Potential Influence of Increasing Connectivity”, Carleton et al 2018
- “Causal Language and Strength of Inference in Academic and Media Articles Shared in Social Media (CLAIMS): A Systematic Review”, Haber et al 2018
- “A Multimethodological Study of Preschoolers’ Preferences for Aggressive Television and Video Games”, Jamnik & DiLalla 2018
- “‘Vegan Bodybuilder’: How YouTube Attacker, Nasim Aghdam, Went Viral in Iran”, Wakabayashi et al 2018
- “The Burden of Online Friends: The Effects of Giving up Facebook on Stress and Well-Being”, Vanman et al 2018
- “Why So Serious?: Survey Trolls and Misinformation”, Lopez & Hillygus 2018
- “Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet: How Do We Fix Life Online without Limiting Free Speech?”, Marantz 2018
- “Community Interaction and Conflict on the Web”, Kumar et al 2018
- “Association of Rideshare-Based Transportation Services and Missed Primary Care Appointments: A Clinical Trial”, Chaiyachati et al 2018
- “That Viral Video of a Convenience Store Robbery Is Worse Than Fake”, Estes 2018
- “Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 Copyright Extension Probably Won’t Happen Again: Copyrights from the 1920s Will Start Expiring next Year If Congress Doesn’t Act.”, Lee 2018
- “The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope—Lessons from Alex Honnold (#160) § The Climbing Industry”, Ferriss & Honnold 2018
- “TV or Not TV? The Impact of Subtitling on English Skills”, Micola et al 2018
- “Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and Deliberation: Why Not Everything Should Be Connected”, Moore 2017
- “‘Cutting Class to Play Video Games’”, Ward 2017
- “Party Connections, Interest Groups and the Slow Diffusion of Infrastructure: Evidence from Britain’s First Transport Revolution”, Bogart 2017
- “Should Governments Invest More in Nudging?”, Benartzi et al 2017
- “When Pixels Collide”, sudoscript 2017
- “Fostering Parasocial Relationships With Celebrities on Social Media: Implications for Celebrity Endorsement”, Chung & Cho 2017
- “Compromising Connectivity: Information Dynamics between the State and Society in a Digitizing North Korea”, Kretchun et al 2017
- “The Surprising And Allegedly Impossible Death Of EverQuest’s ‘Unkillable’ Dragon”, D’Anastasio 2016
- “Evidence for a Conserved Quantity in Human Mobility”, Alessandretti et al 2016
- “The View from Above: Applications of Satellite Data in Economics”, Donaldson & Storeygard 2016
- “Mixing Politics and Crime—The Prevalence and Decline of Political Discourse on the Cryptomarket”, Munksgaard & Demant 2016b
- “Violent Video Games and Violent Crime”, Cunningham et al 2016
- “The Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Internet Use and Associations With Psychopathology: A Twin Study”, Long et al 2016
- “Sexual Behaviors and Partner Characteristics by Sexual Identity Among Adolescent Girls”, Ybarra et al 2016
- “Better All the Time: How the ‘Performance Revolution’ Came to Athletics—And Beyond”, Surowiecki 2014
- “A Twin Study of Problematic Internet Use: Its Heritability and Genetic Association With Effortful Control”, Li et al 2014
- “Were Cell Phones Associated With Lower Crime in the 1990s and 2000s?”, Orrick & Piquero 2013
- “How Quickly We Forget: The Duration of Persuasion Effects From Mass Communication”, Hill et al 2013
- “Ethicists’ and Nonethicists’ Responsiveness to Student Emails: Relationships Among Expressed Normative Attitude, Self-Described Behavior, and Empirically Observed Behavior”, Rust & Schwitzgebel 2013
- “Wikimedia UK Board Meeting, London [On the Editor Recruitment/retention Crisis]”, Gardner 2011
- “Counting YouTube Videos via Random Prefix Sampling”, Zhou et al 2011
- “Emergence of Good Conduct, Scaling and Zipf Laws in Human Behavioral Sequences in an Online World”, Thurner et al 2011
- “Modeling Users' Activity on Twitter Networks: Validation of Dunbar’s Number”, Gonçalves et al 2011
- “The Magic Washing Machine”
- “The Mathematics Of Beauty”, Rudder 2011
- “Pornography and Sex Crimes in the Czech Republic”, Diamond et al 2010
- “Who’s Right and Who Writes: People, Profiles, Contacts, and Replies in Online Dating”, Fiore et al 2010
- “What Technology Wants: Chapter 11, Lessons of Amish Hackers”, Kelly 2010
- “What Technology Wants: Chapter 7, Convergence”, Kelly 2010
- “Human Adaptation to the Control of Fire”, Wrangham & Carmody 2010
- “The Normalization of Deviance in Healthcare Delivery”, Banja 2010
- “What Leads to Romantic Attraction: Similarity, Reciprocity, Security, or Beauty? Evidence From a Speed-Dating Study”, Luo & Zhang 2009
- “Television Viewing, Satisfaction and Happiness: Facts and Fiction”, Gui & Stanca 2009
- “Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?”, Dahl & DellaVigna 2009
- “The Unabomber Was Right”, Kelly 2009
- “Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies”, Means 2009
- “Love Makes You Real: Favorite Television Characters Are Perceived As ‘Real’ in a Social Facilitation Paradigm”, Gardner & Knowles 2008
- “Identifying the Persuasive Effects of Presidential Advertising”, Huber & Arceneaux 2007
- “The Hidden Structure of Overimitation”, Lyons et al 2007
- “On Conspiracies”, Assange 2006
- “Promotion and Prevention Orientations in the Choice to Attend Lectures or Watch Them Online”, Bassili 2006
- “Chain Letter Evolution”, VanArsdale 2006
- “The In-Game Economics of Ultima Online”, Simpson 1999
- “Design Innovation and Fashion Cycles”, Pesendorfer 1995
- “Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons”, MacKenzie & Spinardi 1995
- “How a Publicity Blitz Created The Myth of Subliminal Advertising”, Rogers 1992
- “A Research Note on Deriving the Square-Cube Law of Formal Organizations from the Theory of Time-Minimization”, Stephan 1983
- “Derivation of Some Social-Demographic Regularities from the Theory of Time-Minimization”, Stephan 1979
- “An Alternative Explanation of Contemporary Harriedness”, Hirschman 1973
- The Harried Leisure Class, Linder 1970
- Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy: a Case Study of Modern Factory Administration, Gouldner 1954
- “My Collection of AITA Troll Posts”
-
“ROBOT9000 and
#xkcd-Signal: Attacking Noise in Chat” - “Twitter As the Embodiment of the American Ethos”, Frank 2024
- “The Dating Market: Thesis Overview [Tyro 2019]”
- “What’s The Biggest Challenge Men Face On Dating Apps?: A Q&A With Aviv Goldgeier Junior Growth Engineer”
- “Screen Media Use and Mental Health of Children and Adolescents: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial Media and Youth”
- “1,000 True Fans”, Kelly 2024
- “Twitter and the Spread of Academic Knowledge”
- “Tinder Experiments II: Guys, Unless You Are Really Hot You Are Probably Better off Not Wasting Your Time on Tinder—A Quantitative Socio-Economic Study”
- “Reflections on Palantir [After Leaving]”, Qureshi 2024
- “Time Use”, Data 2024
- “Employee Innovation During Office Work, Work from Home and Hybrid Work”
- “Gamers Have Become Less Interested in Strategic Thinking and Planning”
- “‘Rasmussen and Practical Drift: Drift towards Danger and the Normalization of Deviance’, 2017”
- “What the Humans like Is Responsiveness”, Chapin 2024
- “Where Facebook’s AI Slop Comes From”
- “The Chinese Women Turning to ChatGPT for AI Boyfriends”
- “Why Are Debut Novels Failing to Launch?”
- “Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly”, Mastroianni 2024
- “The Perils of Audience Capture”
- “A Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox”, Karlsson 2024
- “Old News, New Reality: A Year of Facebook’s News Ban in Canada”
- “Elon Musk’s Starlink Connects and Divides Brazil’s Marubo People”
- “Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion through Social Networks”, Kramer 2024
- “AI and the Indian Election”, Schneier 2024
- “Aspirational Pursuit of Mates in Online Dating Markets”
- “Seeing Like A Network”, Krishnan 2024
- “He Got Facebook Hooked on AI. Now He Can’t Fix Its Misinformation Addiction”
- “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex? Despite the Easing of Taboos and the Rise of Hookup Apps, Americans Are in the midst of a Sex Recession”
- “The Sensations of Slime Are Serious Business”
- “Keynote: Linus Torvalds in Conversation With Dirk Hohndel”
- “Reddit’s /r/Place: The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny”
- “XKCD #1053: Ten Thousand”
- Wikipedia
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding”, Gwern 2018
“Who Buys Fonts?”, Gwern 2021
“My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s”, Gwern 2018
“Littlewood’s Law and the Global Media”, Gwern 2018
“ARPA and SCI: Surfing AI”, Gwern 2018
“On Development Hell”, Gwern 2020
“Technology Holy Wars Are Coordination Problems”, Gwern 2020
“Amusing Ourselves to Death?”, Gwern 2018
“Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media Lab”, Gwern 2012
“‘Scanners Live in Vain’ As Realistic SF”, Gwern 2013
“On the Existence of Powerful Natural Languages”, Gwern 2016
“The Melancholy of Subculture Society”, Gwern 2009
“In Defense of Inclusionism”, Gwern 2009
“Cultural Drift: Cleaning Methods”, Gwern 2013
Links
“Internet Archive Breached Again through Stolen Access Tokens”, Abrams 2024
Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens
“Evaluation of OpenAI O1: Opportunities and Challenges of AGI”, Zhong et al 2024
Evaluation of OpenAI o1: Opportunities and Challenges of AGI
“Changes in Need for Uniqueness 2000–2020”, Chopik et al 2024
“Generative AI Can Harm Learning”, Bastani et al 2024
“Netnews: The Origin Story”, Bellovin 2024
“The New Social Landscape: Relationships among Social Media Use, Social Skills, and Offline Friendships from Age 10–18 Years”, Steinsbekk et al 2024
“The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter”, Wang et al 2024
“Influencer Cartels”, Hinnosaar & Hinnosaar 2024
“NewsGuesser: Using Curiosity to Reduce Selective Exposure”, Sun et al 2024
“Collaboratively Adding Context to Social Media Posts Reduces the Sharing of False News”, Renault et al 2024
Collaboratively adding context to social media posts reduces the sharing of false news
“Tweets to Citations: Unveiling the Impact of Social Media Influencers on AI Research Visibility”, Weissburg et al 2024
Tweets to Citations: Unveiling the Impact of Social Media Influencers on AI Research Visibility
“Loneliness and Suicide Mitigation for Students Using GPT-3-Enabled Chatbots”, Maples et al 2024
Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT-3-enabled chatbots
“A Case of Severe Anterograde Amnesia in the Era of Smartphone Technology”, Annese et al 2023
A case of severe anterograde amnesia in the era of smartphone technology
“Impact of Digital Screen Media Activity on Functional Brain Organization in Late Childhood: Evidence from the ABCD Study”, Miller et al 2023
“Controlled Experiment Finds No Detectable Citation Bump from Twitter Promotion”, Branch et al 2023
Controlled experiment finds no detectable citation bump from Twitter promotion
“Correcting for Endogeneity in Models With Bunching”, Carolina et al 2023
“No Evidence That Chinese Playtime Mandates Reduced Heavy Gaming in One Segment of the Video Games Industry”, Zendle et al 2023
“The Ghost Trilemma”, Mukherjee et al 2023
“YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Is Left-Leaning in the United States”, Ibrahim et al 2023
YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is left-leaning in the United States
“The Unconference Toolbox”, Benn & Zuegel 2023
“Generic or Specific Search Terms: What Do Citizens Type in the Google Search Bar to Obtain Political Information?”, Zumofen 2023
“Users Choose to Engage With More Partisan News Than They Are Exposed to on Google Search”, Robertson et al 2023
Users choose to engage with more partisan news than they are exposed to on Google Search
“Do Financial Incentives Encourage Women to Apply for a Tech Job? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment”, Feld et al 2023
“Missing Links: A Comparison of Search Censorship in China”, Knockel et al 2023
“Understanding Why Searching the Internet Inflates Confidence in Explanatory Ability”, Eliseev & Marsh 2023
Understanding why searching the internet inflates confidence in explanatory ability
“The Man of Your Dreams For $300, Replika Sells an AI Companion Who Will Never Die, Argue, or Cheat—Until His Algorithm Is Updated”, Singh-Kurtz 2023
“When Watching TV Shows or Movies in Your Native Language, Do You Generally Prefer to Have the Subtitles on or Off? § By Age”, YouGov 2023
“Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions: Effect of Context Switching On Prospective Memory”, Chiossi et al 2023
“Engagement With Fact-Checked Posts on Reddit”, Bond & Garrett 2023
“The Political Is Personal: The Costs of Daily Politics”, Ford et al 2023
“Do Users Want Platform Moderation or Individual Control? Examining the Role of Third-Person Effects and Free Speech Support in Shaping Moderation Preferences”, Jhaver & Zhang 2023
“Anthropomorphism As a Contributor to the Success of Human (Homo Sapiens) Tool Use”, Haslam 2023
Anthropomorphism as a contributor to the success of human (Homo sapiens) tool use
“Shared Genetic Risk in the Association of Screen Time With Psychiatric Problems in Children”, Zhang et al 2023
Shared Genetic Risk in the Association of Screen Time With Psychiatric Problems in Children
“Political Communication As a Tragedy of the Commons”, Farrer 2022
“The Monitoring Role of Social Media”, Heese & Pacelli 2022
“Assessing the Validity of Self-Report Social Media Use: Evidence of No Relationship With Objective Smartphone Use”, Mahalingham et al 2022
“Does the Mere Presence of a Smartphone Impact Cognitive Performance? A Meta-Analysis of the ‘Brain Drain Effect’”, Parry 2022
“How Digital Media Drive Affective Polarization through Partisan Sorting”, Törnberg 2022
How digital media drive affective polarization through partisan sorting
“Does Sexualization in Video Games Cause Harm in Players? A Meta-Analytic Examination”, Ferguson et al 2022
Does sexualization in video games cause harm in players? A meta-analytic examination
“Overperception of Moral Outrage in Online Social Networks Inflates Beliefs about Intergroup Hostility”, Brady et al 2022
“A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties”, Rajkumar et al 2022
“Weak Ties, Failed Tries, and Success: A Large-Scale Study Provides a Causal Test for a Cornerstone of Social Science”, Wang & Uzzi 2022h
“Twitter Use in the Everyday Life: Exploring How Twitter Use Predicts Well-Being, Polarization, and Sense of Belonging”, Mello et al 2022
“Originality in Online Dating Profile Texts: How Does Perceived Originality Affect Impression Formation and What Makes a Text Original?”, Zanden et al 2022
“Are Mobile Phone Ownership and Age of Acquisition Associated With Child Adjustment? A 5-Year Prospective Study among Low-Income Latinx Children”, Sun et al 2022
“The Golden Age Is Behind Us: How the Status Quo Impacts the Evaluation of Technology”, Smiley & Fisher 2022
The Golden Age Is Behind Us: How the Status Quo Impacts the Evaluation of Technology
“Information Control and Public Support for Social Credit Systems in China”, Xu et al 2022
Information Control and Public Support for Social Credit Systems in China
“Effects of Restricting Social Media Usage on Wellbeing and Performance: A Randomized Control Trial among Students”, Collis et al 2022
“‘Where Am I?’ A Snapshot of the Developmental Topographical Disorientation among Young Italian Adults”, Piccardi et al 2022
“Does Fake News Create Echo Chambers?”, Zhang et al 2022
“Remote Collaboration Fuses Fewer Breakthrough Ideas”, Lin et al 2022
“Sweet Unbinding: Sugarcane Cultivation and the Demise of Foot-Binding”, Cheng et al 2022
Sweet unbinding: Sugarcane cultivation and the demise of foot-binding
“Predicting Romantic Interest during Early Relationship Development: A Preregistered Investigation Using Machine Learning”, Eastwick et al 2022
“Echo Chambers, Rabbit Holes, and Algorithmic Bias: How YouTube Recommends Content to Real Users”, Brown et al 2022
Echo Chambers, Rabbit Holes, and Algorithmic Bias: How YouTube Recommends Content to Real Users
“Counteracting Electric Vehicle Range Concern With a Scalable Behavioral Intervention”, Herberz et al 2022
Counteracting electric vehicle range concern with a scalable behavioral intervention
“Taking a One-Week Break from Social Media Improves Well-Being, Depression, and Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial”, Lambert et al 2022
“Effects of Violent Media Content: Evidence from the Rise of the UFC”, Lindo et al 2022
Effects of violent media content: Evidence from the rise of the UFC
“Virtual Communication Curbs Creative Idea Generation”, Brucks & Levav 2022
“Subscriptions and External Links Help Drive Resentful Users to Alternative and Extremist YouTube Videos”, Chen et al 2022
“A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Electronic Performance Monitoring on Work Outcomes”, Ravid et al 2022
A meta-analysis of the effects of electronic performance monitoring on work outcomes
“Being More Educated and Earning More Increases Romantic Interest: Data from 1.8m Online Daters from 24 Nations”, Jonason & Thomas 2022
“Social Media Use and Its Impact on Adolescent Mental Health: An Umbrella Review of the Evidence”, Valkenburg et al 2022
Social media use and its impact on adolescent mental health: An umbrella review of the evidence
“Windows of Developmental Sensitivity to Social Media”, Orben et al 2022
“Email Mobilization Messages Suppress Turnout Among Black and Latino Voters: Experimental Evidence From the 2016 General Election”, Rivera et al 2022
“The Conditional Effects of Microtargeted Facebook Advertisements on Voter Turnout”, Haenschen 2022
The Conditional Effects of Microtargeted Facebook Advertisements on Voter Turnout
“Does Digital Advertising Affect Vote Choice? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment”, Coppock et al 2022
Does digital advertising affect vote choice? Evidence from a randomized field experiment
“TikTok’s Sick-Role Subculture and What to Do About It”, Harness & Getzen 2022
“Quantifying and Alleviating Political Bias in Language Models”, Liu et al 2022c
Quantifying and alleviating political bias in language models
“Building Status in an Online Community”, Smirnova et al 2022
“A 680,000-Person Megastudy of Nudges to Encourage Vaccination in Pharmacies”, Milkman et al 2022
A 680,000-person megastudy of nudges to encourage vaccination in pharmacies
“Anchoring in the Past, Tweeting from the Present: Cognitive Bias in Journalists’ Word Choices”, Lee & Hamilton 2022
Anchoring in the past, tweeting from the present: Cognitive bias in journalists’ word choices
“COVID-19 Increased Censorship Circumvention and Access to Sensitive Topics in China”, Chang et al 2022
COVID-19 increased censorship circumvention and access to sensitive topics in China
“Fast Response times Signal Social Connection in Conversation”, Templeton et al 2022
Fast response times signal social connection in conversation
“Echo Chambers, Filter Bubbles, and Polarization: a Literature Review”, Arguedas et al 2022
Echo chambers, filter bubbles, and polarization: a literature review
“Incel Activity on Social Media Linked to Local Mating Ecology”, Brooks et al 2022
Incel Activity on Social Media Linked to Local Mating Ecology
“Can Information Reduce Ethnic Discrimination? Evidence from Airbnb”, Laouénan & Rathelot 2022
Can Information Reduce Ethnic Discrimination? Evidence from Airbnb
“Social Media and Psychological Well-Being”, Hancock et al 2022
“Privacy and Information Avoidance: An Experiment on Data-Sharing Preferences”, Svirsky 2022
Privacy and Information Avoidance: An Experiment on Data-Sharing Preferences
“TikTok and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Study of Social Media Content Quality”, Yeung et al 2022
“The Degree of Heterogeneity of News Consumption in Germany—Descriptive Statistics and Relations With Individual Differences in Personality, Ideological Attitudes, and Voting Intentions”, Sindermann et al 2021
“The CEO Beauty Premium: Founder CEO Attractiveness and Firm Valuation in Initial Coin Offerings”, Colombo et al 2021
The CEO beauty premium: Founder CEO attractiveness and firm valuation in initial coin offerings
“Do People Demand Fact-Checked News? Evidence from US Democrats”, Chopra et al 2021
Do people demand fact-checked news? Evidence from US Democrats
“Few-Shot Instruction Prompts for Pretrained Language Models to Detect Social Biases”, Prabhumoye et al 2021
Few-shot Instruction Prompts for Pretrained Language Models to Detect Social Biases
“‘Outside Lobbying’ Over the Airwaves: A Randomized Field Experiment on Televised Issue Ads”, Kalla & Broockman 2021 (page 2)
‘Outside Lobbying’ Over the Airwaves: A Randomized Field Experiment on Televised Issue Ads
“Quantifying Social Organization and Political Polarization in Online Platforms”, Waller & Anderson 2021
Quantifying social organization and political polarization in online platforms
“Project Starline: A High-Fidelity Telepresence System”, Lawrence et al 2021
“The Mental Health and Well-Being Profile of Young Adults Using Social Media”, Cara et al 2021
The mental health and well-being profile of young adults using social media
“No Polarization From Partisan News: Over-Time Evidence From Trace Data”, Wojcieszak et al 2021
No Polarization From Partisan News: Over-Time Evidence From Trace Data
“Should Subscription-Based Content Creators Display Their Earnings on Crowdfunding Platforms? Evidence from Patreon”, Crosby & McKenzie 2021
“Intelligence Can Be Detected but Is Not Found Attractive in Videos and Live Interactions”, Driebe et al 2021
Intelligence can be detected but is not found attractive in videos and live interactions
“Like This Meta-Analysis: Screen Media and Mental Health”, Ferguson et al 2021b
“The Complex Association between Social Media Use Intensity and Adolescent Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Investigation of 5 Factors That May Affect the Association”, Boer et al 2021
“Affective Polarization in the Digital Age: Testing the Direction of the Relationship between Social Media and Users’ Feelings for Out-Group Parties”, Nordbrandt 2021
“Eye Contact Marks the Rise and Fall of Shared Attention in Conversation”, Wohltjen & Wheatley 2021
Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention in conversation
“Playlisting Favorites: Measuring Platform Bias in the Music Industry”, Aguiar et al 2021
Playlisting favorites: Measuring platform bias in the music industry
“The Psychology of Online Political Hostility: A Comprehensive, Cross-National Test of the Mismatch Hypothesis”, Bor & Petersen 2021
“Photos Are All You Need for Reciprocal Recommendation in Online Dating”, Neve & McConville 2021
Photos Are All You Need for Reciprocal Recommendation in Online Dating
“Using Administrative Records and Survey Data to Construct Samples of Tweeters and Tweets”, Hughes et al 2021
Using Administrative Records and Survey Data to Construct Samples of Tweeters and Tweets
“Jack Grealish’s Girlfriend Sasha Attwood ‘Received 200 Death Threats a Day’”, Sinclair 2021
Jack Grealish’s girlfriend Sasha Attwood ‘received 200 death threats a day’
“A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Discrepancies between Logged and Self-Reported Digital Media Use”, Parry et al 2021
“There Is No Evidence That Associations Between Adolescents’ Digital Technology Engagement and Mental Health Problems Have Increased”, Vuorre et al 2021
“Adapting the Selective Exposure Perspective to Algorithmically Governed Platforms: The Case of Google Search”, Slechten et al 2021
“The Revolution in Classic Tetris: How a Younger Generation Used the Internet to Master the Falling Blocks”, Sweet 2021
“Man-Bites-Dog Contagion: Disproportionate Diffusion of Information about Rare Categories of Events”, Jang & Shore 2021
Man-Bites-Dog Contagion: Disproportionate Diffusion of Information about Rare Categories of Events
“Exploring the Effects of Algorithm-Driven News Sources on Political Behavior and Polarization”, Feezell et al 2021
Exploring the effects of algorithm-driven news sources on political behavior and polarization
“Personality Classification of Facebook Users According to Big Five Personality Using SVM (Support Vector Machine) Method”, Utami et al 2021
“Predicting Mental Health From Followed Accounts on Twitter”, Costello et al 2021
“How Is Science Clicked on Twitter? Click Metrics for Bitly Short Links to Scientific Publications”, Fang et al 2021
How is science clicked on Twitter? Click metrics for Bitly short links to scientific publications
“Facial Recognition Technology Can Expose Political Orientation from Naturalistic Facial Images”, Kosinski 2021
Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial images
“Video Game Play Is Positively Correlated With Well-Being”, Johannes et al 2021
“Growing Up With Grand Theft Auto: A 10-Year Study of Longitudinal Growth of Violent Video Game Play in Adolescents”, Coyne & Stockdale 2020
“Fresh From Ganymede! § What Is A Book?”, Sloan 2020
“Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime”, Müller & Schwarz 2020
“Social Distancing As a Critical Test of the Micro-Sociology of Solidarity”, Collins 2020
Social distancing as a critical test of the micro-sociology of solidarity
“Guys and Dolls”, Devlin & Locatelli 2020
“The Daily Grind: Before Millstones Were Invented, the Preparation of Flour for Food Was an Arduous Task Largely Carried out by Women for Hours Every Day. How Did It Affect Their Lives and Why Does It Remain a Tradition in Some Places Even Today?”, Laudan 2020
“Thou Shalt Not Trust Online Videos for Inguinal Hernia Repair Techniques”, Huynh et al 2020
Thou shalt not trust online videos for inguinal hernia repair techniques
“Hidden Incentives for Auto-Induced Distributional Shift”, Krueger et al 2020
“The Radicalization Risks of GPT-3 and Advanced Neural Language Models”, McGuffie & Newhouse 2020
The Radicalization Risks of GPT-3 and Advanced Neural Language Models
“Increases in Depression, Self-Harm, and Suicide Among US Adolescents After 2012 and Links to Technology Use: Possible Mechanisms”, Twenge 2020
“Skeb Artwork Commissioning Website: Review: Commission Your Favourite Japanese Artists With Auto-Translation”, Worboys 2020
“Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence From Russia”, Enikolopov et al 2020
Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence From Russia
“The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics”, Orben 2020
“The Impact of Banning Mobile Phones in Swedish Secondary Schools”, Kessel et al 2020
The impact of banning mobile phones in Swedish secondary schools
“Technology and Educational Choices: Evidence from a One-Laptop-Per-Child Program (OLPC)”, Yanguas 2020
Technology and educational choices: Evidence from a one-laptop-per-child program (OLPC)
“Texting Students and Study Supporters (Project SUCCESS): Evaluation Report”, Scandone et al 2020 (page 5)
Texting Students and Study Supporters (Project SUCCESS): Evaluation Report
“To Repress or to Co-Opt? Authoritarian Control in the Age of Digital Surveillance”, Xu 2020
To Repress or to Co-opt? Authoritarian Control in the Age of Digital Surveillance
“How Cameo Turned D-List Celebs Into a Monetization Machine: Inside the Surreal and Lucrative Two-Sided Marketplace of Mediocre Famous People”, Sauer 2020
“The Welfare Effects of Social Media”, Allcott et al 2020
“Causal Effect of Video Gaming on Mental Well-Being in Japan 2020–2022”
Causal effect of video gaming on mental well-being in Japan 2020–2022
“Open Source Migrates With Emotional Distress”, Ronacher 2019
“Social Media-Predicted Personality Traits and Values Can Help Match People to Their Ideal Jobs”, Kern et al 2019
Social media-predicted personality traits and values can help match people to their ideal jobs
“Deepfake Bot Submissions to Federal Public Comment Websites Cannot Be Distinguished from Human Submissions”, Weiss 2019
“The Universal Decay of Collective Memory and Attention”, Candia et al 2019
“Release Strategies and the Social Impacts of Language Models”, Solaiman et al 2019
Release Strategies and the Social Impacts of Language Models
“Are Social Media Ruining Our Lives? A Review of Meta-Analytic Evidence”, Appel et al 2019
Are Social Media Ruining Our Lives? A Review of Meta-Analytic Evidence
“It’s the Phone, Stupid: Mobiles and Murder”, Edlund & Machado 2019
“Be Cautious With the Precautionary Principle: Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident”, Neidell 2019
Be Cautious with the Precautionary Principle: Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident
“The Economic Effects of Facebook”, Mosquera et al 2019
“Cross-National Evidence of a Negativity Bias in Psychophysiological Reactions to News”, Soroka et al 2019
Cross-national evidence of a negativity bias in psychophysiological reactions to news
“How Effective Is Nudging? A Quantitative Review on the Effect Sizes and Limits of Empirical Nudging Studies”, Hummel & Maedche 2019
“Accelerating Dynamics of Collective Attention”, Lorenz-Spreen et al 2019
“Predicting Individual-Level Income from Facebook Profiles”, Matz et al 2019
“Team Creativity/innovation in Culturally Diverse Teams: A Meta-Analysis”, Wang et al 2019
Team creativity/innovation in culturally diverse teams: A meta-analysis:
View PDF:
“Status As a Service”, Wei 2019
“Violent Video Game Engagement Is Not Associated With Adolescents’ Aggressive Behavior: Evidence from a Registered Report”, Przybylski & Weinstein 2019
“Essays in Applied Microeconomics [OLPC, Natural-Disasters/growth, Silent Spring]”, Yanguas 2019
Essays in Applied Microeconomics [OLPC, natural-disasters/growth, Silent Spring]
“Fraidycat: Follow Blogs, Wikis, YouTube Channels, as well as Accounts on Twitter, Instagram, Etc from a Single Page”, Condor 2019
“Political Advertising and Election Results”, Spenkuch & Toniatti 2018
“Sort By Controversial”, Alexander 2018
“Knitting Community: Human and Social Capital in the Transition to Entrepreneurship”, Kim 2018
Knitting Community: Human and Social Capital in the Transition to Entrepreneurship
“The Simple but Ingenious System Taiwan Uses to Crowdsource Its Laws: VTaiwan Is a Promising Experiment in Participatory Governance. But Politics Is Blocking It from Getting Greater Traction”, Horton 2018
“Notes on the Dynamics of Human Civilization: The Growth Revolution”, Greer 2018
Notes on the Dynamics of Human Civilization: The Growth Revolution
“Increasing Intolerance of Uncertainty over Time: the Potential Influence of Increasing Connectivity”, Carleton et al 2018
Increasing intolerance of uncertainty over time: the potential influence of increasing connectivity
“Causal Language and Strength of Inference in Academic and Media Articles Shared in Social Media (CLAIMS): A Systematic Review”, Haber et al 2018
“A Multimethodological Study of Preschoolers’ Preferences for Aggressive Television and Video Games”, Jamnik & DiLalla 2018
A Multimethodological Study of Preschoolers’ Preferences for Aggressive Television and Video Games
“‘Vegan Bodybuilder’: How YouTube Attacker, Nasim Aghdam, Went Viral in Iran”, Wakabayashi et al 2018
‘Vegan Bodybuilder’: How YouTube Attacker, Nasim Aghdam, Went Viral in Iran
“The Burden of Online Friends: The Effects of Giving up Facebook on Stress and Well-Being”, Vanman et al 2018
The burden of online friends: The effects of giving up Facebook on stress and well-being
“Why So Serious?: Survey Trolls and Misinformation”, Lopez & Hillygus 2018
“Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet: How Do We Fix Life Online without Limiting Free Speech?”, Marantz 2018
“Community Interaction and Conflict on the Web”, Kumar et al 2018
“Association of Rideshare-Based Transportation Services and Missed Primary Care Appointments: A Clinical Trial”, Chaiyachati et al 2018
“That Viral Video of a Convenience Store Robbery Is Worse Than Fake”, Estes 2018
That Viral Video of a Convenience Store Robbery Is Worse Than Fake
“Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 Copyright Extension Probably Won’t Happen Again: Copyrights from the 1920s Will Start Expiring next Year If Congress Doesn’t Act.”, Lee 2018
“The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope—Lessons from Alex Honnold (#160) § The Climbing Industry”, Ferriss & Honnold 2018
“TV or Not TV? The Impact of Subtitling on English Skills”, Micola et al 2018
“Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and Deliberation: Why Not Everything Should Be Connected”, Moore 2017
Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and Deliberation: Why Not Everything Should Be Connected:
View PDF:
“‘Cutting Class to Play Video Games’”, Ward 2017
“Party Connections, Interest Groups and the Slow Diffusion of Infrastructure: Evidence from Britain’s First Transport Revolution”, Bogart 2017
“Should Governments Invest More in Nudging?”, Benartzi et al 2017
“When Pixels Collide”, sudoscript 2017
“Fostering Parasocial Relationships With Celebrities on Social Media: Implications for Celebrity Endorsement”, Chung & Cho 2017
“Compromising Connectivity: Information Dynamics between the State and Society in a Digitizing North Korea”, Kretchun et al 2017
“The Surprising And Allegedly Impossible Death Of EverQuest’s ‘Unkillable’ Dragon”, D’Anastasio 2016
The Surprising And Allegedly Impossible Death Of EverQuest’s ‘Unkillable’ Dragon
“Evidence for a Conserved Quantity in Human Mobility”, Alessandretti et al 2016
“The View from Above: Applications of Satellite Data in Economics”, Donaldson & Storeygard 2016
The View from Above: Applications of Satellite Data in Economics
“Mixing Politics and Crime—The Prevalence and Decline of Political Discourse on the Cryptomarket”, Munksgaard & Demant 2016b
Mixing politics and crime—The prevalence and decline of political discourse on the cryptomarket
“Violent Video Games and Violent Crime”, Cunningham et al 2016
“The Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Internet Use and Associations With Psychopathology: A Twin Study”, Long et al 2016
“Sexual Behaviors and Partner Characteristics by Sexual Identity Among Adolescent Girls”, Ybarra et al 2016
Sexual Behaviors and Partner Characteristics by Sexual Identity Among Adolescent Girls
“Better All the Time: How the ‘Performance Revolution’ Came to Athletics—And Beyond”, Surowiecki 2014
Better All the Time: How the ‘performance revolution’ came to athletics—and beyond
“A Twin Study of Problematic Internet Use: Its Heritability and Genetic Association With Effortful Control”, Li et al 2014
“Were Cell Phones Associated With Lower Crime in the 1990s and 2000s?”, Orrick & Piquero 2013
Were cell phones associated with lower crime in the 1990s and 2000s?
“How Quickly We Forget: The Duration of Persuasion Effects From Mass Communication”, Hill et al 2013
How Quickly We Forget: The Duration of Persuasion Effects From Mass Communication
“Ethicists’ and Nonethicists’ Responsiveness to Student Emails: Relationships Among Expressed Normative Attitude, Self-Described Behavior, and Empirically Observed Behavior”, Rust & Schwitzgebel 2013
“Wikimedia UK Board Meeting, London [On the Editor Recruitment/retention Crisis]”, Gardner 2011
Wikimedia UK Board Meeting, London [on the editor recruitment/retention crisis]
“Counting YouTube Videos via Random Prefix Sampling”, Zhou et al 2011
“Emergence of Good Conduct, Scaling and Zipf Laws in Human Behavioral Sequences in an Online World”, Thurner et al 2011
Emergence of good conduct, scaling and Zipf laws in human behavioral sequences in an online world
“Modeling Users' Activity on Twitter Networks: Validation of Dunbar’s Number”, Gonçalves et al 2011
Modeling Users' Activity on Twitter Networks: Validation of Dunbar’s Number
“The Magic Washing Machine”
“The Mathematics Of Beauty”, Rudder 2011
“Pornography and Sex Crimes in the Czech Republic”, Diamond et al 2010
“Who’s Right and Who Writes: People, Profiles, Contacts, and Replies in Online Dating”, Fiore et al 2010
Who’s Right and Who Writes: People, Profiles, Contacts, and Replies in Online Dating
“What Technology Wants: Chapter 11, Lessons of Amish Hackers”, Kelly 2010
What Technology Wants: Chapter 11, Lessons of Amish Hackers:
“What Technology Wants: Chapter 7, Convergence”, Kelly 2010
“Human Adaptation to the Control of Fire”, Wrangham & Carmody 2010
“The Normalization of Deviance in Healthcare Delivery”, Banja 2010
“What Leads to Romantic Attraction: Similarity, Reciprocity, Security, or Beauty? Evidence From a Speed-Dating Study”, Luo & Zhang 2009
“Television Viewing, Satisfaction and Happiness: Facts and Fiction”, Gui & Stanca 2009
Television Viewing, Satisfaction and Happiness: Facts and Fiction:
“Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?”, Dahl & DellaVigna 2009
“The Unabomber Was Right”, Kelly 2009
“Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies”, Means 2009
“Love Makes You Real: Favorite Television Characters Are Perceived As ‘Real’ in a Social Facilitation Paradigm”, Gardner & Knowles 2008
“Identifying the Persuasive Effects of Presidential Advertising”, Huber & Arceneaux 2007
Identifying the Persuasive Effects of Presidential Advertising
“The Hidden Structure of Overimitation”, Lyons et al 2007
“On Conspiracies”, Assange 2006
“Promotion and Prevention Orientations in the Choice to Attend Lectures or Watch Them Online”, Bassili 2006
Promotion and prevention orientations in the choice to attend lectures or watch them online
“Chain Letter Evolution”, VanArsdale 2006
“The In-Game Economics of Ultima Online”, Simpson 1999
“Design Innovation and Fashion Cycles”, Pesendorfer 1995
“Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons”, MacKenzie & Spinardi 1995
Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons
“How a Publicity Blitz Created The Myth of Subliminal Advertising”, Rogers 1992
How a Publicity Blitz Created The Myth of Subliminal Advertising
“A Research Note on Deriving the Square-Cube Law of Formal Organizations from the Theory of Time-Minimization”, Stephan 1983
“Derivation of Some Social-Demographic Regularities from the Theory of Time-Minimization”, Stephan 1979
Derivation of Some Social-Demographic Regularities from the Theory of Time-Minimization
“An Alternative Explanation of Contemporary Harriedness”, Hirschman 1973
The Harried Leisure Class, Linder 1970
Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy: a Case Study of Modern Factory Administration, Gouldner 1954
Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy: a case study of modern factory administration:
“My Collection of AITA Troll Posts”
“ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-Signal: Attacking Noise in Chat”
“Twitter As the Embodiment of the American Ethos”, Frank 2024
“The Dating Market: Thesis Overview [Tyro 2019]”
“What’s The Biggest Challenge Men Face On Dating Apps?: A Q&A With Aviv Goldgeier Junior Growth Engineer”
“Screen Media Use and Mental Health of Children and Adolescents: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial Media and Youth”
“1,000 True Fans”, Kelly 2024
“Twitter and the Spread of Academic Knowledge”
“Tinder Experiments II: Guys, Unless You Are Really Hot You Are Probably Better off Not Wasting Your Time on Tinder—A Quantitative Socio-Economic Study”
“Reflections on Palantir [After Leaving]”, Qureshi 2024
“Time Use”, Data 2024
Time Use:
View External Link:
“Employee Innovation During Office Work, Work from Home and Hybrid Work”
Employee Innovation During Office Work, Work from Home and Hybrid Work:
View External Link:
“Gamers Have Become Less Interested in Strategic Thinking and Planning”
Gamers Have Become Less Interested in Strategic Thinking and Planning:
“‘Rasmussen and Practical Drift: Drift towards Danger and the Normalization of Deviance’, 2017”
‘Rasmussen and practical drift: Drift towards danger and the normalization of deviance’, 2017
“What the Humans like Is Responsiveness”, Chapin 2024
“Where Facebook’s AI Slop Comes From”
“The Chinese Women Turning to ChatGPT for AI Boyfriends”
“Why Are Debut Novels Failing to Launch?”
“Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly”, Mastroianni 2024
“The Perils of Audience Capture”
“A Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox”, Karlsson 2024
“Old News, New Reality: A Year of Facebook’s News Ban in Canada”
Old News, New Reality: A Year of Facebook’s News Ban in Canada
“Elon Musk’s Starlink Connects and Divides Brazil’s Marubo People”
Elon Musk’s Starlink Connects and Divides Brazil’s Marubo People
“Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion through Social Networks”, Kramer 2024
Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks
“AI and the Indian Election”, Schneier 2024
“Aspirational Pursuit of Mates in Online Dating Markets”
“Seeing Like A Network”, Krishnan 2024
“He Got Facebook Hooked on AI. Now He Can’t Fix Its Misinformation Addiction”
He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can’t fix its misinformation addiction
“Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex? Despite the Easing of Taboos and the Rise of Hookup Apps, Americans Are in the midst of a Sex Recession”
“The Sensations of Slime Are Serious Business”
The Sensations of Slime Are Serious Business:
View External Link:
https://www.wired.com/story/slime-business-elmers-glue-sloomoo/
“Keynote: Linus Torvalds in Conversation With Dirk Hohndel”
“Reddit’s /r/Place: The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny”
Reddit’s /r/Place: The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny:
“XKCD #1053: Ten Thousand”
View External Link:
Wikipedia
Miscellaneous
-
/doc/sociology/technology/2017-reddit-dhieno-theplace-timelapseevolution.mp4: -
/doc/sociology/technology/1986-chainletters-proctorandgamblesatanismhoax-ae1986-09_proctor_image.jpg: -
https://blog.codinghorror.com/meta-is-murder/:View External Link:
-
https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline-expands-testing/:View External Link:
https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline-expands-testing/ -
https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/16/the-moderator-problem-how-reddit-and-related-news-sites-decline/: -
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/21677026231207791 -
https://mazzzystar.github.io/2023/11/16/ai-girlfriend-product/:View External Link:
https://mazzzystar.github.io/2023/11/16/ai-girlfriend-product/ -
https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2021/07/vrchat-syrmor-user-survey-new-world-notes.html -
https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2021/07/vrchat-user-survey-syrmor-new-world-notes.html -
https://productidentity.co/p/6-twitter-whats-my-name-again: -
https://qz.com/a-startup-founded-by-former-google-employees-claims-tha-1850919360: -
https://replications.clearerthinking.org/replication-2023jpsp124-4/ -
https://scholars-stage.org/the-world-that-twitter-made/:View External Link:
-
https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/03/phone-free-schools-movement-parents-teenagers.html -
https://slate.com/technology/2024/02/quora-what-happened-ai-decline.html -
https://tesuji.org/old_news/kerafyrm_the_sleeper_re-revisited.html -
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/08/16/communitynotes.html -
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/international-mental-illness-part-one -
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/social-media-mental-illness-epidemic -
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/the-mental-illness-crisis-millenials -
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/why-some-researchers-think-im-wrong -
https://www.filfre.net/2024/02/the-rise-of-pomg-part-2-multima/:View External Link:
https://www.filfre.net/2024/02/the-rise-of-pomg-part-2-multima/ -
https://www.filfre.net/2024/03/the-rise-of-pomg-part-4-a-world-for-the-taking/ -
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/11/16/chatgpt-becomes-a-social-media-spy-assistant/ -
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AZCpu3BrCFWuAENEd/notifications-received-in-30-minutes-of-class: -
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Pweg9xpKknkNwN8Fx/have-attention-spans-been-declining: -
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporative-cooling-of-group-beliefs -
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cdB5f2adKoLGW8Ytc/book-review-very-important-people: -
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tscc3e5eujrsEeFN4/well-kept-gardens-die-by-pacifism: -
https://www.propublica.org/article/school-absenteeism-truancy-education-students: -
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211335523003625 -
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-future-of-video-calls-is-here-but-do-we-actually-need-it -
https://www.wired.com/story/china-tried-to-keep-kids-off-social-media-now-the-elderly-are-hooked/:
Bibliography
-
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-023-00047-6: “Loneliness and Suicide Mitigation for Students Using GPT-3-Enabled Chatbots”, -
2023-zumofen.pdf: “Generic or Specific Search Terms: What Do Citizens Type in the Google Search Bar to Obtain Political Information?”, -
https://citizenlab.ca/2023/04/a-comparison-of-search-censorship-in-china/: “Missing Links: A Comparison of Search Censorship in China”, -
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/3/pgad018/7008465: “Engagement With Fact-Checked Posts on Reddit”, -
2023-haslam.pdf: “Anthropomorphism As a Contributor to the Success of Human (Homo Sapiens) Tool Use”, -
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4278696: “The Monitoring Role of Social Media”, -
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/tnyda/: “Does the Mere Presence of a Smartphone Impact Cognitive Performance? A Meta-Analysis of the ‘Brain Drain Effect’”, -
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2207159119: “How Digital Media Drive Affective Polarization through Partisan Sorting”, -
2022-ferguson.pdf: “Does Sexualization in Video Games Cause Harm in Players? A Meta-Analytic Examination”, -
https://osf.io/k5dzr/: “Overperception of Moral Outrage in Online Social Networks Inflates Beliefs about Intergroup Hostility”, -
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/4x5em/: “Twitter Use in the Everyday Life: Exploring How Twitter Use Predicts Well-Being, Polarization, and Sense of Belonging”, -
https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.13851: “Are Mobile Phone Ownership and Age of Acquisition Associated With Child Adjustment? A 5-Year Prospective Study among Low-Income Latinx Children”, -
2022-xu.pdf: “Information Control and Public Support for Social Credit Systems in China”, -
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4144897: “Does Fake News Create Echo Chambers?”, -
2022-cheng.pdf: “Sweet Unbinding: Sugarcane Cultivation and the Demise of Foot-Binding”, -
2022-eastwick.pdf: “Predicting Romantic Interest during Early Relationship Development: A Preregistered Investigation Using Machine Learning”, -
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4114905: “Echo Chambers, Rabbit Holes, and Algorithmic Bias: How YouTube Recommends Content to Real Users”, -
2022-lindo.pdf: “Effects of Violent Media Content: Evidence from the Rise of the UFC”, -
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12110-022-09422-2: “Being More Educated and Earning More Increases Romantic Interest: Data from 1.8m Online Daters from 24 Nations”, -
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29296-3: “Windows of Developmental Sensitivity to Social Media”, -
2022-haenschen.pdf: “The Conditional Effects of Microtargeted Facebook Advertisements on Voter Turnout”, -
2022-liu-3.pdf: “Quantifying and Alleviating Political Bias in Language Models”, -
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2115126119: “A 680,000-Person Megastudy of Nudges to Encourage Vaccination in Pharmacies”, -
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2102818119: “COVID-19 Increased Censorship Circumvention and Access to Sensitive Topics in China”, -
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116915119: “Fast Response times Signal Social Connection in Conversation”, -
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/echo-chambers-filter-bubbles-and-polarisation-literature-review: “Echo Chambers, Filter Bubbles, and Polarization: a Literature Review”, -
2022-svirsky.pdf: “Privacy and Information Avoidance: An Experiment on Data-Sharing Preferences”, -
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sej.1417: “The CEO Beauty Premium: Founder CEO Attractiveness and Firm Valuation in Initial Coin Offerings”, -
https://escholarship.org/content/qt29g8h5x8/qt29g8h5x8.pdf#page=2: “‘Outside Lobbying’ Over the Airwaves: A Randomized Field Experiment on Televised Issue Ads”, -
2021-lawrence.pdf#google: “Project Starline: A High-Fidelity Telepresence System”, -
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2106645118: “Eye Contact Marks the Rise and Fall of Shared Attention in Conversation”, -
2021-aguiar.pdf: “Playlisting Favorites: Measuring Platform Bias in the Music Industry”, -
https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra/article/7/1/18731/115925/Predicting-Mental-Health-From-Followed-Accounts-on: “Predicting Mental Health From Followed Accounts on Twitter”, -
https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asi.24458: “How Is Science Clicked on Twitter? Click Metrics for Bitly Short Links to Scientific Publications”, -
https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/fresh-from-ganymede/: “Fresh From Ganymede! § What Is A Book?”, -
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41290-020-00120-z: “Social Distancing As a Critical Test of the Micro-Sociology of Solidarity”, -
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-daily-grind/: “The Daily Grind: Before Millstones Were Invented, the Preparation of Flour for Food Was an Arduous Task Largely Carried out by Women for Hours Every Day. How Did It Affect Their Lives and Why Does It Remain a Tradition in Some Places Even Today?”, -
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1176/appi.prcp.20190015: “Increases in Depression, Self-Harm, and Suicide Among US Adolescents After 2012 and Links to Technology Use: Possible Mechanisms”, -
2020-allcott.pdf: “The Welfare Effects of Social Media”, -
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1089268019880891: “Are Social Media Ruining Our Lives? A Review of Meta-Analytic Evidence”, -
2019-edlund.pdf: “It’s the Phone, Stupid: Mobiles and Murder”, -
2020-mosquera.pdf: “The Economic Effects of Facebook”, -
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1908369116: “Cross-National Evidence of a Negativity Bias in Psychophysiological Reactions to News”, -
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.171474: “Violent Video Game Engagement Is Not Associated With Adolescents’ Aggressive Behavior: Evidence from a Registered Report”, -
2018-kim.pdf: “Knitting Community: Human and Social Capital in the Transition to Entrepreneurship”, -
https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/08/21/240284/the-simple-but-ingenious-system-taiwan-uses-to-crowdsource-its-laws/: “The Simple but Ingenious System Taiwan Uses to Crowdsource Its Laws: VTaiwan Is a Promising Experiment in Participatory Governance. But Politics Is Blocking It from Getting Greater Traction”, -
2018-jamnik.pdf: “A Multimethodological Study of Preschoolers’ Preferences for Aggressive Television and Video Games”, -
2018-chaiyachati.pdf: “Association of Rideshare-Based Transportation Services and Missed Primary Care Appointments: A Clinical Trial”, -
2018-micola.pdf: “TV or Not TV? The Impact of Subtitling on English Skills”, -
2010-wrangham.pdf: “Human Adaptation to the Control of Fire”, -
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2821100/: “The Normalization of Deviance in Healthcare Delivery”, -
2009-luo.pdf: “What Leads to Romantic Attraction: Similarity, Reciprocity, Security, or Beauty? Evidence From a Speed-Dating Study”, -
2009-dahl.pdf: “Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?”, -
2008-gardner.pdf: “Love Makes You Real: Favorite Television Characters Are Perceived As ‘Real’ in a Social Facilitation Paradigm”, -
https://carryiton.net/chain-letter/evolution.html: “Chain Letter Evolution”, -
1983-stephan.pdf: “A Research Note on Deriving the Square-Cube Law of Formal Organizations from the Theory of Time-Minimization”,