Assistant Professor University of Oregon Sociology | Former Postdoc NYU CSMaP | Ph.D. Princeton Sociology | Research on media, information, politics, China, computational social science | Opinions are my own | https://hwaight.github.io/
Thank you @meharpist.bsky.social. It was a pleasure working with you on this paper.
Mary Elizabeth SutherlandMillions of people(including me) turn to LLMs for information and advice. But who shapes their output? A @nature.com paper shows the influence of state controlled media on LLM output. Read all the details in the article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Wonderful to work on this with you @jatucker.bsky.social !
Joshua Tucker1/ Excited to report we have a new paper out @nature.com today! The bottom line: training data for LLMs does not just fall from the sky - it is created in the context of existing social political institutions - and that has consequences for LLM output. nature.com/articles/s41...
Here's a free link to the paper: rdcu.be/fiyrF
State media control influences large language modelsNature - Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a...rdcu.beHannah WaightI’m excited to share a new paper in Nature that shows how large language models launder the strategic rhetoric of authoritarian states. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A thread.
I’m excited to share a new paper in Nature that shows how large language models launder the strategic rhetoric of authoritarian states. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A thread.
State media control influences large language models - NatureGovernment-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...www.nature.comThe US loses its status as a liberal democracy for the first time in 50 years. V-dem now classifies the US as an electoral democracy.
Claes de VreeseJust out: the new @vdeminstitute.bsky.social is clear: "The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history" V-dem uses a global dataset on democracy with over 32 million data points for 202 countries, from 1789 to 2025. www.v-dem.net/documents/75...
We recently wrote a follow blog post summarizing this @amjsoc.bsky.social article. Please follow this link to read more: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
Americans’ shifting perceptions of income inequality are a story of class and partisan identity | USAPPIncome and class inequality have played an increasingly prominent role in American political discourse since the financial crash of 2008. In new research, Hannah Waight and her co-author Adam Goldstei...blogs.lse.ac.ukAmerican Journal of SociologyHannah Waight and Adam Goldstein show that inequality perceptions have become increasingly polarized by partisanship.This gap has been driven by Republicans, whose increasing disavowal of growing inequality contributed to an overall decline in Americans’ perceptions in the new gilded age.
New blog post summarizing my recent paper with Adam Goldstein in the AJS: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
Americans’ shifting perceptions of income inequality are a story of class and partisan identity | USAPPAmericans’ shifting perceptions of income inequality are a story of class and partisan identity Income and class inequality have played an increasingly prominent role in American political discourse s...blogs.lse.ac.ukThank you @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell for all your hard work on this! Really thankful to have been a part of this special issue!
Thomas DavidsonI’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers: