Seth Frey
Biographic Data
| ID | 212358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth Frey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth |
| FAMILY NAME | Frey |
| SIGNATURE | FREY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0807-4683 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Super groups or fair leagues? Rich-get-richer dynamics can drive capture despite active redistribution in professional basketball
Much of modern society is founded on orchestrating institutions that produce social goods by fostering motivated groups, pitting them against each other, and distributing the fruits of the arms races that ensue. In this paper, we explore how institutions may change over time and, using the example of competitive balance in professional basketball, analyze whether these changes expose institutions to capture by the few or equilibrium among members…
Advancing Text Analysis for Nonprofit Research: Using Semantic Role Labeling to Automate Institutional Grammar Coding of Nonprofit Laws and Policies
The Institutional Grammar (IG) is a rigorous tool for analyzing the laws and policies governing nonprofit organizations; however, its use was limited due to the time-consuming nature of hand-coding. We introduce an advance in Natural Language Processing using a semantic role labeling (SRL) classifier that reliably codes rules governing and guiding nonprofit organizations. This paper provides guidance for how to hand-code using the IG, preprocess …
The psychology of volunteer moderators: Tradeoffs between participation, belonging, and norms in online community governance
Online communities rely on effective governance for success, and volunteer moderators are crucial for ensuring such governance. Despite their significance, much remains to be explored in understanding the relationship between community governance processes and moderators’ psychological experiences. To bridge this gap, we conducted an online survey with over 600 moderators from Reddit communities, exploring the link between different governance st…
Broadcast information diffusion processes on social media networks: Exogenous events lead to more integrated public discourse
Understanding information diffusion is vital to explaining the good, bad, and ugly impacts of social media. Two types of processes govern information diffusion: broadcasting and viral spread. Viral spreading is when a message is diffused by peer-to-peer social connections, whereas broadcasting is characterized by influences that can come from outside of the peer-to-peer social network. How these processes shape public discourse is not well unders…
Decentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-Level Governance in Online Social Platforms
Many have criticized the centralized and unaccountable governance of prominent online social platforms, leading to renewed interest in platform governance that incorporates multiple centers of power. Decentralization of power can arise horizontally, through parallel communities, each with local administration, and vertically, through multiple hierarchies of overlapping jurisdiction. Drawing from literature on federalism and polycentricity in anal…
Broadcast Information Diffusion Processes on Social Media Networks: Exogenous Events Lead to More Integrated Public Discourse
Understanding information diffusion is vital to explaining the good, bad, and ugly impacts of social media. Two types of processes govern information diffusion: broadcasting and viral spread. Viral spreading is when a message is diffused by peer-to-peer social connections whereas broadcasting is characterized by influences that can come from outside of the peer-to-peer social network. How these processes shape public discourse is not well underst…
Breaking the Structural Reinforcement: An Agent-Based Model on Cultural Consumption and Social Relations
Theorists since Marx, Bourdieu, and DiMaggio have asked how individual choices on cultural preference interact with collective social network structure. The rise of social media in today’s communication landscape motivates us to take a closer look at the involved dynamics. We designed an agent-based model to explore how different behavioral principles for cultural choice and communicative affiliation affect (1) collective consumption patterns, (2…
Experimenting With Online Governance
To solve the problems they face, online communities adopt comprehensive governance methods including committees, boards, juries, and even more complex institutional logics. Helping these kinds of communities succeed will require categorizing best practices and creating toolboxes that fit the needs of specific communities. Beyond such applied uses, there is also a potential for an institutional logic itself to evolve, taking advantage of feedback …
Effective voice: Beyond exit and affect in online communities
Online communities provide ample opportunities for user self-expression but generally lack the means for average users to exercise direct control over community policies. This article sets out to identify a set of strategies and techniques through which the voices of participants might be better heard through defined mechanisms for institutional governance. Drawing on Albert O. Hirschman’s distinction between “exit” and “voice” in institutional l…
Machine coding of policy texts with the Institutional Grammar
The Institutional Grammar (IG) is used to analyse the syntactic structure of statements constituting institutions (e.g., policies, regulations, and norms) that indicate behavioural constraints and parameterize features of institutionally governed domains. Policy and administration scholars have made considerable progress in methodologically developing the IG, offering increasingly clear guidelines for IG‐based coding, identifying unique considera…
Emergent Cultural Differences in Online Communities' Norms of Fairness
Unpredictable social dynamics can dominate social outcomes even in carefully designed societies like online multiplayer games. According to theories from economic game theory and evolutionary anthropology, communities that are otherwise identical can spontaneously develop emergent cultural differences. We demonstrate the emergence of norm diversity in comparable populations distributed across identical copies of a single multiplayer game world. W…
The rippling dynamics of valenced messages in naturalistic youth chat
Machine coding of policy texts with the Institutional Grammar
The Institutional Grammar (IG) is used to analyse the syntactic structure of statements constituting institutions (e.g., policies, regulations, and norms) that indicate behavioural constraints and parameterize features of institutionally governed domains. Policy and administration scholars have made considerable progress in methodologically developing the IG, offering increasingly clear guidelines for IG‐based coding, identifying unique considera…
Decentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-Level Governance in Online Social Platforms
Many have criticized the centralized and unaccountable governance of prominent online social platforms, leading to renewed interest in platform governance that incorporates multiple centers of power. Decentralization of power can arise horizontally, through parallel communities, each with local administration, and vertically, through multiple hierarchies of overlapping jurisdiction. Drawing from literature on federalism and polycentricity in anal…
Emergent Cultural Differences in Online Communities' Norms of Fairness
Unpredictable social dynamics can dominate social outcomes even in carefully designed societies like online multiplayer games. According to theories from economic game theory and evolutionary anthropology, communities that are otherwise identical can spontaneously develop emergent cultural differences. We demonstrate the emergence of norm diversity in comparable populations distributed across identical copies of a single multiplayer game world. W…
The psychology of volunteer moderators: Tradeoffs between participation, belonging, and norms in online community governance
Online communities rely on effective governance for success, and volunteer moderators are crucial for ensuring such governance. Despite their significance, much remains to be explored in understanding the relationship between community governance processes and moderators’ psychological experiences. To bridge this gap, we conducted an online survey with over 600 moderators from Reddit communities, exploring the link between different governance st…
The rippling dynamics of valenced messages in naturalistic youth chat
Machine coding of policy texts with the Institutional Grammar
The Institutional Grammar (IG) is used to analyse the syntactic structure of statements constituting institutions (e.g., policies, regulations, and norms) that indicate behavioural constraints and parameterize features of institutionally governed domains. Policy and administration scholars have made considerable progress in methodologically developing the IG, offering increasingly clear guidelines for IG‐based coding, identifying unique considera…
Emergent Cultural Differences in Online Communities' Norms of Fairness
Unpredictable social dynamics can dominate social outcomes even in carefully designed societies like online multiplayer games. According to theories from economic game theory and evolutionary anthropology, communities that are otherwise identical can spontaneously develop emergent cultural differences. We demonstrate the emergence of norm diversity in comparable populations distributed across identical copies of a single multiplayer game world. W…
Experimenting With Online Governance
To solve the problems they face, online communities adopt comprehensive governance methods including committees, boards, juries, and even more complex institutional logics. Helping these kinds of communities succeed will require categorizing best practices and creating toolboxes that fit the needs of specific communities. Beyond such applied uses, there is also a potential for an institutional logic itself to evolve, taking advantage of feedback …
Effective voice: Beyond exit and affect in online communities
Online communities provide ample opportunities for user self-expression but generally lack the means for average users to exercise direct control over community policies. This article sets out to identify a set of strategies and techniques through which the voices of participants might be better heard through defined mechanisms for institutional governance. Drawing on Albert O. Hirschman’s distinction between “exit” and “voice” in institutional l…
Broadcast Information Diffusion Processes on Social Media Networks: Exogenous Events Lead to More Integrated Public Discourse
Understanding information diffusion is vital to explaining the good, bad, and ugly impacts of social media. Two types of processes govern information diffusion: broadcasting and viral spread. Viral spreading is when a message is diffused by peer-to-peer social connections whereas broadcasting is characterized by influences that can come from outside of the peer-to-peer social network. How these processes shape public discourse is not well underst…
Breaking the Structural Reinforcement: An Agent-Based Model on Cultural Consumption and Social Relations
Theorists since Marx, Bourdieu, and DiMaggio have asked how individual choices on cultural preference interact with collective social network structure. The rise of social media in today’s communication landscape motivates us to take a closer look at the involved dynamics. We designed an agent-based model to explore how different behavioral principles for cultural choice and communicative affiliation affect (1) collective consumption patterns, (2…
Broadcast information diffusion processes on social media networks: Exogenous events lead to more integrated public discourse
Understanding information diffusion is vital to explaining the good, bad, and ugly impacts of social media. Two types of processes govern information diffusion: broadcasting and viral spread. Viral spreading is when a message is diffused by peer-to-peer social connections, whereas broadcasting is characterized by influences that can come from outside of the peer-to-peer social network. How these processes shape public discourse is not well unders…
Decentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-Level Governance in Online Social Platforms
Many have criticized the centralized and unaccountable governance of prominent online social platforms, leading to renewed interest in platform governance that incorporates multiple centers of power. Decentralization of power can arise horizontally, through parallel communities, each with local administration, and vertically, through multiple hierarchies of overlapping jurisdiction. Drawing from literature on federalism and polycentricity in anal…
The psychology of volunteer moderators: Tradeoffs between participation, belonging, and norms in online community governance
Online communities rely on effective governance for success, and volunteer moderators are crucial for ensuring such governance. Despite their significance, much remains to be explored in understanding the relationship between community governance processes and moderators’ psychological experiences. To bridge this gap, we conducted an online survey with over 600 moderators from Reddit communities, exploring the link between different governance st…
Super groups or fair leagues? Rich-get-richer dynamics can drive capture despite active redistribution in professional basketball
Much of modern society is founded on orchestrating institutions that produce social goods by fostering motivated groups, pitting them against each other, and distributing the fruits of the arms races that ensue. In this paper, we explore how institutions may change over time and, using the example of competitive balance in professional basketball, analyze whether these changes expose institutions to capture by the few or equilibrium among members…
Advancing Text Analysis for Nonprofit Research: Using Semantic Role Labeling to Automate Institutional Grammar Coding of Nonprofit Laws and Policies
The Institutional Grammar (IG) is a rigorous tool for analyzing the laws and policies governing nonprofit organizations; however, its use was limited due to the time-consuming nature of hand-coding. We introduce an advance in Natural Language Processing using a semantic role labeling (SRL) classifier that reliably codes rules governing and guiding nonprofit organizations. This paper provides guidance for how to hand-code using the IG, preprocess …
Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)