social media

Quantifying societal emotional resilience to natural disasters from geo-located social media content

Natural disasters can have devastating and long-lasting effects on a community’s emotional well-being. These effects may be distributed unequally, affecting some communities more profoundly and possibly over longer time periods than others. Here, we …

Declining well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic reveals US social inequities

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic led to mental health fallout in the US; yet research about mental health and COVID-19 primarily rely on samples that may overlook variance in regional mental health. Indeed, between-city comparisons of mental health …

Individuals with depression express more distorted thinking on social media

Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide, but is often underdiagnosed and undertreated. Cognitive behavioural therapy holds that individuals with depression exhibit distorted modes of thinking, that is, cognitive distortions, that can …

E-Ship: Modeling public and entrepreneur sentiment from longitudinal online data

Using Social Media Indicators to Study Regional Socio-Economic Resilience

An Agent-Based Model of Posting Behavior During Times of Societal Unrest

Social media is increasingly monitored during periods of societal unrest to gauge public response and estimate the duration and severity of related protest events. To this end, we build an agent-based simulation model that accurately describes the …