Jason J. Jones

Stony Brook University

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Institute for Advanced Computational Science
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NEW! Check out Nick Rogers' post on The Monkey Cage at Washington Post: On Twitter, Trump is more popular than Jesus

Research Group

• Jason J. Jones is the director of the Computational Social Science of Emerging Realities Group

Publications

• NEW! Using Twitter Bios to Measure Changes in Self-Identity: Are Americans Defining Themselves More Politically Over Time?
  Nick Rogers and Jason J. Jones
  Journal of Social Computing 2(1), 1-13. doi: 10.23919/JSC.2021.0002
  
  
• Tackling misinformation: What researchers could do with social media data
  Irene V Pasquetto, et. al.
  Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review, 1(8). doi: 10.37016/mr-2020-49
  
  
• Virtual reality and embodied experience induce similar levels of empathy change: Experimental evidence
  Andrew Hargrove, Jamie M. Sommer and Jason J.Jones
  Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 2, 100038. doi: 10.1016/j.chbr.2020.100038
  
  
• Stereotypical Gender Associations in Language Have Decreased Over Time
  Jason J. Jones, Mohammad Ruhul Amin, Jessica Kim and Steven Skiena
  Sociological Science 7(1), 1-35. doi: 10.15195/v7.a1
  
  
• Association Between Late-Night Tweeting and Next-Day Game Performance among Professional Basketball Players
  Jason J. Jones, Gregory W. Kirschen, Sindhuja Kancharla and Lauren Hale
  Sleep Health - Journal of the National Sleep Foundation 5(1), 68-71. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2018.09.005
  
  
• American Political-Party Affiliation as a Predictor of Usage of an Adultery Website
  Kodi B. Arfer and Jason J. Jones
  Archives of Sexual Behavior 48(3), 715-723. doi:10.1007/s10508-018-1244-1
  
  
• The Impact of Sleep Duration on Performance Among Competitive Athletes: A Systematic Literature Review
  Gregory W. Kirschen, Jason J. Jones, and Lauren Hale
  Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine (2018). doi: 10.1097/JSM.0000000000000622
  
  
• Did the Black Panther Movie Make Blacks Blacker? Examining Black Racial Identity on Twitter Before and After the Black Panther Movie Release
  Firman M. Firmansyah, Jason J. Jones
  In: Weber I. et al. (eds) Social Informatics. SocInfo 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11864. Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-34971-4_5
  
  
• Network Experiments Through Academic-Industry Collaboration
  Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jason J. Jones, and Jaime E. Settle
  In: Lehmann S., Ahn YY. (eds) Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems. Computational Social Sciences. Springer, Cham doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-77332-2_18
  
  
• Social Network Effects on Academic Achievement
  Robert M. Bond, Volha Chykina, and Jason J. Jones
  The Social Science Journal 54 (4), 438-449. doi: 10.1016/j.soscij.2017.06.001
  
  
• Social Influence and Political Mobilization: Further Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election
  Jason J. Jones, Robert M. Bond, Eytan Bakshy, Dean Eckles, and James H. Fowler
  PLOS ONE 12(4): e0173851. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173851
  
  
• Social Endorsement Cues and Political Participation
  Robert M. Bond, Jaime E. Settle, Christopher J. Fariss, Jason J. Jones, and James H. Fowler
  Political Communication 34(2), 261-281. doi: 10.1080/10584609.2016.1226223
  
  
• Social Networks and Labor Markets: How Strong Ties Relate to Job Finding On Facebook's Social Network
  Laura K. Gee, Jason J. Jones, Moira Burke
  Journal of Labor Economics 35(2), 485-518. doi: 10.1086/686225
  
  
• The Paradox of Weak Ties in 55 Countries
  Laura K. Gee, Jason J. Jones, Christopher J. Fariss, Moira Burke, James H. Fowler
  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 133, 362-372, ISSN 0167-2681, doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2016.12.004
  
  
• From Posting to Voting: The Effects of Political Competition on Online Political Engagement
  Jaime E. Settle, Robert M. Bond, Lorenzo Coviello, Christopher J. Fariss, James H. Fowler, Jason J. Jones
  Political Science Research and Methods 4(02), 361-378. doi: 10.1017/psrm.2015.1
  
  
• Yahtzee: An Anonymized Group Level Matching Procedure
  Jason J. Jones, Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jaime E. Settle, Adam D. I. Kramer, Cameron Marlow, James H. Fowler
  PLOS ONE 8(2): e55760. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055760
  
  
• Inferring Tie Strength from Online Directed Behavior
  Jason J. Jones, Jaime E. Settle, Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Cameron Marlow, James H. Fowler
  PLOS ONE 8(1): e52168. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052168
  
  
• A 61-Million-Person Experiment in Social Influence and Political Mobilization
  Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jason J. Jones, Adam D. I. Kramer, Cameron Marlow, Jaime E. Settle, James H. Fowler
  Nature. 489, 295-298.
  
  
• Sleep Does Not Enhance Motor Sequence Learning
  Timothy C. Rickard, Denise J. Cai, Cory A. Rieth, Jason J. Jones, M. Colin Ard
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 34(4), 834-842.
  
  
• Is the Mind Inherently Forward-Looking? Comparing Prediction and Retrodiction
  Jason J. Jones, Hal Pashler
  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 14(2), 295-300.

In The News

• On Twitter, Trump is more popular than Jesus
  Washington Post
• Social Networks Can Affect Voter Turnout, Study Says
  New York Times
• Facebook friends’ voting has impact on Election Day turnout, study finds
  Washington Post
• How people use Facebook social connections to find work
  CBS News
• Having a Lot of Facebook Friends Can Help You Land a New Job
  Entrepreneur.com
• For NBA Players, Nothing Good Ever Happens on Twitter After 11 p.m
  SI.com (Sports Illustrated)
• Facebook Could Be Powerful Tool In Targeting Voters
  NPR All Things Considered
• Get Out the Friend Vote: How Facebook Spurred 340,000 Extra Votes in 2010
  TIME
• Facebook 'Friends,' and Why We Should Lose the Scare Quotes
  The Atlantic

Digital identities:

Twitter: @jasonjones_jjj

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Preprints and Projects

• LOPS - Longitudinal Online Profile Sampling
  
• Do LGBTQ-related Events Drive Individual Online Disclosure Decisions?
  
• Jones-Skiena Public Opinion of Artificial Intelligence Dashboard
  
• Complex Contagions in Charitable Donations
  
• International Update Your Bio Day is August 10th
  
• Is Virtual Reality Uniquely Effective in Eliciting Empathy?
  
• Acquisition of Social Network Structure.
  
• Scale-Free Superiority, Egocentric Bias and Network Centrality Heuristics in Social Graph Learning.