Part of a special issue on Explanation and Causality in Sociology in KzfSS: link.springer.com/collections/...

Computational Text Analysis for Building and Testing Social Theory - KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie Digitization and advances in natural language processing have transformed how sociologists can measure, model, and interpret social life through text. We provide an overview of computational text anal...

How can computational text analysis be used for building and testing social theory?

@marckeuschnigg.bsky.social, @anamacanovic.bsky.social, @anmen.bsky.social & I write about how CTA is commonly used & how it might be used by sociologists in the future

Out now:
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Last week @mansmag.bsky.social and I organized a workshop for researchers working with Swedish Parliamentary Data, hosted in the Riksdag. The only photo I managed to get was of @benjaminrohr.bsky.social during his great keynote. Thanks to everyone who participated and shared their research!

So excited to announce that I have been awarded a SEK2.7M Project Grant from @riksjubileumsfond.bsky.social to study the dynamics of meaning divergence! 🎉

Interested in theory-driven topic modeling? Check out our paper on using seeded LDA to analyze how the framing of immigration has evolved over 75 years.