Rense Corten 🟥
Sociologist at Utrecht University, NL, studying cooperation, trust, social networks, social media, platform economy, using computational social science and experimental methods. I mostly follow academics.
Also: @RenseC@mastodon.online
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- Reposted by Rense Corten 🟥Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships. osf.io/preprints/so... 1/15
- Aan dit soort berichtgeving hebben we weinig. Wat is een "AI-camera"? nos.nl/ttapp
- Reposted by Rense Corten 🟥“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.” Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- Reposted by Rense Corten 🟥Let wel: De Staatscommissie Parlementair Stelsel (cie-Remkes) pleitte weloverwogen tégen een hogere kiesdrempel. Er zijn aanpassingen mogelijk die minder verstoren (oa aantal benodigde handtekeningen voor verkiezingsdeelname). De commissie pleitte ook níét voor hervorming kiesstelsel Eerste Kamer.
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- Reposted by Rense Corten 🟥“Shut up!” screamed Toad.
- Reposted by Rense Corten 🟥Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:
- So far it looks like Trump tried to play Chicken with Europe and lost
- Good news but the fact that this is even in the news is still depressing
- New paper out! Using data donation, we provide one of the first, if not THE first, assessment of the structure of the WhatsApp network with a population-wide probability sample (1/) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Despite the prominence of WhatsApp in contemporary social interaction, we know very little about it, mostly due to its technical architecture and proprietary nature. This includes the network structure. 2/
- Your quarterly reminder that top econ journals are often full of sociology. In the latest issue of QJE: peer influence, educational inequality, ideals and beliefs, racial violence, collective action, and the impact of ideas. academic.oup.com/qje/issue/14...
- BREAKING! Economists discover that Ideas Have Consequences academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
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- Reposted by Rense Corten 🟥Do you explore intersections between digitalization and geography of crime? @asiermoneva.com, Wim Bernasco and I look forward to your contribution to our guest-edited special issue “The Geography of Crime in the Digital Era”. See call for papers (www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...). Please share.
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- If I were a plant, I would object to the notion that anything derived from "seed" has a "male" connotation doi.org/10.1038/d415...
- How ethnography leads to useful policy advice in times of budget cuts: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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- One of many in the past decade
