B Ro

Biographic Data

ID13653
NAMEB Ro
GIVEN NAMESB
FAMILY NAMERo
SIGNATURERO B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
ORCID0000-0003-2717-3705
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Generative AI in child sexual exploitation and abuse

    Open AccessCyndie Demeocq, A J Taylor et al.ARTICLEAI & Society2026

    Amidst the general excitement about the opportunities afforded by artificial intelligence (AI), the tech industry must confront the uncomfortable reality that generative AI also facilitates child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA). This issue remains under-addressed in the literature. Aiming to deepen the understanding of online CSEA and the misuse of generative AI, we report empirical insights from semi-structured interviews with seven UK law …

  • The Insight-Inference Loop

    Open AccessSandrine Chausson, Marion Fourcade et al.ARTICLESociological Methods & Research2025References: 36

    Modern computational text classification methods have brought social scientists tantalizingly close to the goal of unlocking vast insights buried in text data-from centuries of historical documents to streams of social media posts. Yet three barriers still stand in the way: the tedious labor of manual text annotation, the technical complexity that keeps these tools out of reach for many researchers, and, perhaps most critically, the challenge of …

  • Potential Pitfalls With Automatic Sentiment Analysis

    Open AccessEddie L Ungle, Eddie L Ungless et al.ARTICLESocial Science Computer Review2023References: 6

    Automated sentiment analysis can help efficiently detect trends in patients' moods, consumer preferences, political attitudes and more. Unfortunately, like many natural language processing techniques, sentiment analysis can show bias against marginalised groups. We illustrate this point by showing how six popular sentiment analysis tools respond to sentences about queer identities, expanding on existing work on gender, ethnicity and disability. W…

  • The Impact of Social Media on Social Cohesion

    Open AccessStefan Stieglitz, B RoARTICLEMedia and Communication2022

    Social media plays a major role in public communication in many countries. Therefore, it has a large impact on societies and their cohesion. This thematic issue explores the impact social media has on social cohesion on a local or national level. The nine articles in this issue focus on both the potential of social media usage to foster social cohesion and the possible drawbacks of social media which could negatively influence the development and…

  • The Networked Context of Covid-19 Misinformation

    Open AccessDaniel Röchert, Gautam Kishore Shahi et al.ARTICLEOnline Social Networks and Media2021

  • Opinionleaders

    Stephan Winter, German Neubaum et al.ARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2021

    Social media have become forums of discussions on political and societal debates in which individual users may forward information or influence others. While prior studies either employed network analyses or surveys to identify opinion leaders and their characteristics, the present investigation combines these two approaches to address the relationship between observable and self-perceived influence. For this purpose, a retweet network of Twitter…

  • Benchmarking Crisis in Social Media Analytics

    Open AccessDennis Assenmacher, Doreen Weber et al.ARTICLESocial Science Computer Review2021Cited by: 4References: 4

    Computational social science uses computational and statistical methods in order to evaluate social interaction. The public availability of data sets is thus a necessary precondition for reliable and replicable research. These data allow researchers to benchmark the computational methods they develop, test the generalizability of their findings, and build confidence in their results. When social media data are concerned, data sharing is often res…

  • Caution

    Open AccessAnna-Katharina Jung, B Ro et al.ARTICLEBig Data & Society2020Cited by: 2References: 43

    As false information may spread rapidly on social media, a profound understanding of how it can be debunked is required. This study offers empirical insights into the development of rumors after they are debunked, the various user groups who are involved in the process, and their network structures. As crisis situations are highly sensitive to the spread of rumors, Twitter posts from during the 2017 G20 summit are examined. Tweets regarding five …

  • Social media analytics – Challenges in topic discovery, data collection, and data preparation

    Open AccessStefan Stieglitz, Milad Mirbabaie et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    Since an ever-increasing part of the population makes use of social media in their day-to-day lives, social media data is being analysed in many different disciplines. The social media analytics process involves four distinct steps, data discovery, collection, preparation, and analysis. While there is a great deal of literature on the challenges and difficulties involving specific data analysis methods, there hardly exists research on the stages …

  • Le style Mezcala découvert en contexte au guerrero (Mexique)

    Open AccessLouise I Paradis, Сhristian Bélanger et al.ARTICLEJournal de la Société des…1990

    C'est en 1980 qu'a débuté le projet Mezcala. Le directeur du Consejo de Arqueologia d'alors, le professeur J. L. Lorenzo, avait promis la médaille de l'Aigle Aztèque au directeur du projet, si elle parvenait à découvrir en contexte et à dater le style Mezcala dans l'État du Guerrero. Dix ans plus tard, en 1990, le projet Mezcala peut espérer recevoir sa médaille : sept figurines de pierre de style Mezcala ont été trouvées au site Ahuinahuac. Nous…