{"id":1133,"date":"2021-02-04T17:12:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T08:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robfahey.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2021-02-28T17:39:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T08:39:14","slug":"2020-research-writing-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robfahey.co.uk\/blog\/2020-research-writing-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Research &#038; Writing Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2020 wasn&#8217;t exactly a great year for getting things done, but hey; some things got done nonetheless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Journal Papers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0277953620301799\"><strong>Covariance in diurnal patterns of suicide-related expressions on Twitter and recorded suicide deaths<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; (with Jeremy Boo and Michiko Ueda), in <em>Social Science &amp; Medicine<\/em>.<br>(<strong>What&#8217;s interesting about it:<\/strong> there&#8217;s a surprising lack of clarity about whether people making suicidal statements on social media is actually connected in any way to suicide deaths &#8211; some people think it&#8217;s an obvious link, others think talk like that on social media is just casual or attention-seeking. We took a five-year sample of Twitter data and suicide death records and showed that with a small time lag, the hour-by-hour pattern of suicide deaths was indeed correlated to the traffic on Twitter regarding suicidal ideation.)<br><br><\/li><li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0268401220310239\"><strong>COVID-19, digital privacy, and the social limits on data-focused public health responses<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; (with Airo Hino), in <em>International Journal of Information Management<\/em>.<br>(<strong>What&#8217;s interesting about it<\/strong>: this was a really early attempt to untangle some of the issues surrounding the use of digital tracking and contact tracing tools for managing the COVID-19 pandemic. It touches on a few different issues ranging from privacy concerns (and how being cavalier about those concerns could sink the whole digital side of the pandemic response &#8211; which, in the end, it did in many countries) to the path-dependency created by the dominance of tech giants.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Book Chapters<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.sagepub.com\/en-gb\/eur\/the-sage-handbook-of-research-methods-in-political-science-and-international-relations\/book262875\"><strong>Sentiment Analysis and Social Media<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; (with Luigi Curini), in <em>The Sage Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations. <\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Book Reviews<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u300c<strong>\u56f3\u66f8\u7d39\u4ecb\uff1a\u300e\u5185\u5bb9\u5206\u6790\u306e\u9032\u3081\u65b9\u3000\u30fc\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2\u30fb\u30e1\u30c3\u30bb\u30fc\u30b8\u3092\u8aad\u307f\u89e3\u304f\u300f<\/strong>\u300d\u3001\u65e5\u672c\u4e16\u8ad6\u8abf\u67fb\u5354\u4f1a\u5831\u300c\u3088\u308d\u3093\u300d\u3001126\u53f7\u300152\u221254. (<em>&#8220;Book Review: &#8216;Analyzing Media Messages: Using Quantitative Content Analysis in Research'&#8221;, YORON: Journal of the Japanese Association for Public Opinion Research, Vol. 126, pp.52-54<\/em>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conference Papers \/ Presentations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/344664144_From_Filter_Bubble_to_Social_Divide_Social_Polarisation_in_Europe_and_Japan\"><strong>From Filter Bubble to Social Divide: Social Polarisation in Europe and Japan<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; (with Stefano Camatarri), <em>APSA General Meeting 2020<\/em><br><br><\/li><li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/344664071_Belief_in_Conspiracy_Theories_and_Socio-Political_Identity_in_Japan\"><strong>Belief in Conspiracy Theories and Socio-Political Identity in Japan<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; (with Airo Hino, Stefano Camatarri and Sebastian Jungkunz), <em>APSA General Meeting 2020<\/em>.<br><br><\/li><li>\u300c<strong>\u65e5\u672c\u306b\u304a\u3051\u308b\u30dd\u30d4\u30e5\u30ea\u30ba\u30e0\u3068\u9670\u8b00\u8ad6\u306e\u4fe1\u5ff5<\/strong>\u300d\u3001\u65e5\u672c\u4e16\u8ad6\u8abf\u67fb\u5354\u4f1a\u7814\u7a76\u5927\u4f1a\u3002(<em>&#8220;Populism and Belief in Conspiracy Theories in Japan&#8221;, at the Japanese Association for Public Opinion Research (JAPOR) Annual Research Meeting.<\/em>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Editorials \/ Articles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoreview.net\/2020\/05\/time-to-give-japan-credit-for-its-covid-19-response\/\"><strong>Time to Give Japan Credit for its COVID-19 Response<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; (with Paul Nadeau), <em>Tokyo Review<\/em><br><br><\/li><li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoreview.net\/2020\/05\/abe-shinzo-polling-danger-zone\/\"><strong>Abe Shinzo Enters the Polling Danger Zone<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;, <em>Tokyo Review<\/em><br><br><\/li><li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tokyoreview.net\/2020\/07\/tokyos-2020-election-devolves-into-circus\/\"><strong>Tokyo&#8217;s 2020 Election Devolves into Circus<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;, <em>Tokyo Review<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 wasn&#8217;t exactly a great year for getting things done, but hey; some things got done nonetheless. Journal Papers &#8220;Covariance in diurnal patterns of suicide-related expressions on Twitter and recorded suicide deaths&#8221; (with Jeremy Boo and Michiko Ueda), in Social Science &amp; Medicine.(What&#8217;s interesting about it: there&#8217;s a surprising lack of clarity about whether people &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robfahey.co.uk\/blog\/2020-research-writing-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71QYy-ih","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":171,"url":"http:\/\/www.robfahey.co.uk\/blog\/cries-of-misandry-didnt-sink-himozairu\/","url_meta":{"origin":1133,"position":0},"title":"Cries of &#8220;Misandry!&#8221; didn&#8217;t sink Himozairu","author":"Rob Fahey","date":"28\/10\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Acclaimed manga author Akiko Higashimura (famous for Kuragehime, or Jellyfish Princess, a series about female otaku) this week cancelled her latest series, Himozairu, after just two chapters, following an online outcry. 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