ABOUT THE PROJECT
socsemics will address several current challenges:
- developing a comprehensive theory of reinforcing and self-sustaining socio-semantic communities by appraising the social, semantic and socio-semantic realms simultaneously;
- drastically improving content analysis by replacing classical distributional approach with clause analysis, thus enabling quantitative approaches rendering the linguistic complexity of utterances in web corpuses;
- fostering the interface between these methods and qualitative approaches, especially through a couple of broad case studies;
interactive platforms implementing the above innovations and facilitating digital social research.
Publications
- Mangold, L., & Roth, C. (2023). Generative models for two-ground-truth partitions in networks. Physical Review E, 108(5), 054308. [open access version]
- Roth, C., & Hellsten, I. (2023). Socio-semantic configuration of an online conversation space. Social Networks, 75, 186–196. [open access version]
- Menezes, T., Pottier, A., & Roth, C. (2023). The two sides of the environmental Kuznets curve: A Socio-semantic analysis. OEconomia, 13(2), 279–321. [open access version]
- Roth, C. (2022). Resilience of socio-semantic bubbles. In E. Lazega, T. A. B. Snijders, & R. P. M. Wittek (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Social Networks and Social Resilience, 145–164. Edward Elgar Publishing. [publisher version]
- Roth, C., St-Onge, J., & Herms, K. (2022). Quoting is not Citing: Disentangling Affiliation and Interaction on Twitter. Complex Networks & Their Applications X, 705–717. [publisher version]
- Medeuov, D., Roth, C., Puzyreva, K., & Basov, N. (2021). Appraising discrepancies and similarities in semantic networks using concept-centered subnetworks. Applied Network Science, 6,66. [open access version]
- Roth, C., & Basov, N. (2020). The socio-semantic space of John Mohr. Poetics, 78(1), 101437. [publisher version]
- Roth, C., Mazières, A., & Menezes, T. (2020). Tubes and bubbles topological confinement of YouTube recommendations. PloS one, 15(4), e0231703. [open access version]
- Baltzer, A., Karsai, M., & Roth, C. (2019). Interactional and Informational Attention on Twitter. Information, 10(8), 250. [publisher version]
- Lerique, S., & Roth, C. (2018). The semantic drift of quotations in blogspace: A case study in short‐term cultural evolution. Cognitive Science, 42(1), 188–219. [open access version]
WHO WE ARE
The project has officially started being hosted at CNRS and Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin in 2019. At the moment, the members of the larger Computational Social Science team who are involved in socsemics include:
Camille roth
FACULTY, CNRS
Camille is a tenured full research scientist at CNRS in computer science. Over the last decade, he also hold tenured professorships in sociology (Sciences Po Paris, U. Toulouse).
Telmo Menezes
POSTDOC, CNRS
Telmo is specialized in Artificial Intelligence and its applications to the Social Sciences. His research is currently focused on representations of knowledge for claim and belief propagation analysis.
Jérémie Poiroux
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, CNRS
ex-PhD student in sociology, Jérémie studies why people participate in online debates.
Lena Mangold
PHD STUDENT, CNRS
With a background in mathematics and data science, Lena is a PhD student researching socio-semantic clusters in online conversations. Her work will focus on describing the nature of such clusters, the dynamics that lead to their emergence and stability, as well as their meta-level configurations.
Quentin Lobbé
POSTDOC, CMB
Quentin's research lies at the intersection of Computational Social Sciences, Complex Systems and Data Visualization. It focuses on the reconstruction of multi-level socio-technical dynamics from digital traces, with a particular emphasis on web archives mining and knowledge cartography.
Former members:
Katrin Herms
PHD STUDENT, CNRS
Noé Durandard
NOW PHD STUDENT, PARIS SCIENCES & LETTRES
MAX REINHARD
MSC STUDENT AT TU BERLIN
MANUEL TONNEAU
NOW PHD STUDENT, OXFORD INTERNET INSTITUTE
GOVIND GANDHI
MSC STUDENT AT IISER PUNE
ROMAIN AVOUAC
NOW ADMINISTRATEUR AT INSEE
TITOUAN MORVAN
MSC STUDENT AT ENS LYON
JONATHAN ST-ONGE
NOW MSC STUDENT AT THE VERMONT COMPLEX SYSTEMS CENTER
JONAS STEIN
NOW PHD STUDENT, RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN
KATHARINA TITTEL
NOW PHD STUDENT, SCIENCES PO PARIS
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