Publications by authors named "Alexander T J Barron"
Mass communication over social media can drive rapid changes in our sense of collective identity. Hashtags in particular have acted as powerful social coordinators, playing a key role in organizing social movements like the Gezi park protests, Occupy Wall Street, #metoo, and #blacklivesmatter. Here we quantify collective identity from the use of hashtags as self-labels in over 85,000 actively-maintained Twitter user profiles spanning 2017-2019.
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- * Researchers analyzed over 14 million books from the past 125 years and found that markers of cognitive distortions have sharply increased since the 1980s, surpassing levels seen during the Great Depression and both World Wars.
- * This increase in cognitive distortions is not attributed to changes in language meaning or publishing practices, indicating a broader societal shift toward language reflecting internalizing disorders.
Individuals, institutions, and innovation in the debates of the French Revolution.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
May 2018
The French Revolution brought principles of "liberty, equality, fraternity" to bear on the day-to-day challenges of governing what was then the largest country in Europe. Its experiments provided a model for future revolutions and democracies across the globe, but this first modern revolution had no model to follow. Using reconstructed transcripts of debates held in the Revolution's first parliament, we present a quantitative analysis of how this body managed innovation.
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