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Detailing social influence in predicting cinema attendance: a vignette approach
December 2025
Volume 113
Yevhen Voronin

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✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky

Just submitted my cumulative #PhD #dissertation. Hard to believe.

More details on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/yevhen...

And what is important — #OpenToWork soon ( #CSS, sociology of #consumption, cultural #sociology, Ukrainian studies )

Thanks for your support during my PhD journey!

Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023

A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”

New interesting study about the climate change representation in Korean TV Dramas by the LUT team in @ijoc-usc.bsky.social #sociology

#OpenAccess here ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

"New evidence against the filter bubble thesis; it shows that platforms do reinforce cultural inequalities by increasing the social gap in consumption diversity."

sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

🎓 We’re hiring!
Two researcher / PhD positions in the ERC project DANCE – Dark Nerd Communities at the University of Münster 🇪🇺
🧮 Quantitative: survey, lab + field experiments
🎙️ Qualitative: ethnography, focus groups, interviews
Apply by 28 Nov 2025 👇
#AcademicJobs #ERC #PhD #CommunicationResearch

Exploring Personal Recommendations from New Contacts in the Movie Market: https://osf.io/qn8cw

I have decided to make the final chapter of my cumulative dissertation available as a preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data Article: Wide Social Influence and the Emergence of the Unexpected: An Empirical Test Using Spotify Data | Sociological Science | Posted October 23, 2025

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New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social with @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social and Peter Hedström! We identify a social-influence mechanism that widens individuals' behavioral repertoires and breaks the link between individuals' initial preferences and the collective outcomes they bring about.

Amazing open position! 🤍

Congrats! Great paper!

The poster "Cultural #Omnivorousness in the Domains of Music, Film and Literature: Evidence for a Partial Overlap", which I presented at #AkadSoz25, is now available on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #sociology

Inspiring paper on social stratification of library borrowing!

Read here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

▶️"...although cultural tastes always seem to be socially stratified, the type of stratification likely depends on the nature of the wider inequalities within a given context"

A big milestone in my PhD journey 🎓 — my new article in #Poetics is out!

Using a vignette survey, I show how diverse ratings and recommendations shape intentions to watch a new movie at the cinema. #sociology

Thrilled this study found its place in Poetics!

#OpenAccess here doi.org/10.1016/j.po...

Ukrainian Prime Minister in the damaged building of Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers after today’s missile attack
#UkrainianView

#ECSR2025 in #Cologne 🚲 Last week, for the first time, I arrived at the conference by bike.

Top moment: a presentation by Fabian Krarz on polarization both across cohorts and with rising age. The paper is now out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

Just back from the #ESA RN05 #Sociology of Consumption Midterm #Conference in Prague ✨

Great talks, even better people, and such a lively atmosphere — easily one of my most enjoyable conference experiences yet!

(5/5) But what is intriguing: when comparing the social stratification of omnivorous classes, three domains demonstrate dissimilarities.

Read the full study #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1177/1360... #sociology #socsky

(4/5) The results show (only?) partial overlap – it is common for omnivores in one domain to be rather paucivores but also omnivores in other domains.

(3/5) Put differently: are people who are omnivores in music 🎶 also more likely to be omnivores in film 🎬 and literature 📚?

To test this, I used latent profile analysis on #KuBiPaD 2018 #survey #data from Germany.

(2/5) This month, I (tried to) contribute to the debates on comparability in the omnivore-univore studies and visions on omnivorousness — testing overlap (homology) of omnivorous tastes across music, film & literature.

What Does it Mean to be a Cultural Omnivore? Conflicting Visions of Omnivorousness in Empirical Research - Robert de Vries, Aaron Reeves, 2022 The ‘omnivore’ hypothesis currently dominates the academic literature on the social patterning of taste. It argues that cultural elites no longer resemble the t...

(1/5) In 2021, @socresonline.bsky.social published a groundbreaking (for me) paper on weak vs. strong interpretations of omnivorousness (de Vries and @aaronreeves.bsky.social), improving the conceptual clarity of the omnivore-univore thesis.

In case you missed it: doi.org/10.1177/1360...

(0/5) New thread on cultural #omnivorousness in 🎶🎬📚

Do music, film & literature omnivorous tastes overlap? Insights from my recent paper in @socresonline.bsky.social
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#sociology #socsky

Congratulations, Johannes! Great news!

When you teach Sociology of Consumption in 2025, be prepared to specialize in “labubing” thanks to such creative student papers ⤵️

New article in @socresonline.bsky.social ⤵️

"Cultural Omnivorousness in the Domains of Music, Film and Literature"

Findings suggest partial overlap across cultural domains.

🔓 Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/1360...
#OpenAccess #CulturalSociology

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter:innen PräDoc/PostDoc für DFG Projekt/research asssistant PreDoc/PostDoc for DFG project (all gender) - Job Bochum - Stellenangebote CAIS Das von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderte Forschungs- und Infrastrukturprojekt „SocEnRep - Automatisierung von Reproduzierbarkeit in den Wirtschafts- und...

For the DFG-funded project "SocEnRep - Automation of Reproducibility in Economics and Social Sciences" we are looking for a researcher (75% - 100%). Start: Oct 1st, Application until: Aug 21st.
stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=08fd14
Feel free to spread the word and contact me with questions!

Just returned from #ISAforum25 in Rabat, where I had the chance to present my first research in #CSS using social media data - grateful for the feedback and suggestions on how to improve the paper!