Jason Jeffrey Jones

Stony Brook University

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Institute for Advanced Computational Science
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Research Group

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

Publications

• NEW! Bursts of contemporaneous publication among high- and low-credibility online information providers
  Ceren Budak, Lia Bozarth, Robert M. Bond, Drew Margolin, Jason Jeffrey Jones and R. Kelly Garrett
  New Media & Society doi: 10.1177/14614448231183617
  
  
• Pronoun Lists in Profile Bios Display Increased Prevalence, Systematic Co-Presence with Other Keywords and Network Tie Clustering among US Twitter Users 2015-2022
  Liam Tucker and Jason Jeffrey Jones
  Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 3. doi: 10.51685/jqd.2023.003
  
  
• Slava Ukraini: Exploring Identity Activism in Support of Ukraine via the Ukraine Flag Emoji on Twitter
  Margot A. Hare and Jason Jeffrey Jones
  Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 3. doi: 10.51685/jqd.2023.005
  
  
• A dataset for the study of identity at scale: Annual Prevalence of American Twitter Users with specified Token in their Profile Bio 2015–2020
  Jason Jeffrey Jones
  PLoS ONE 16(11): e0260185. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260185
  
  
• Using Twitter Bios to Measure Changes in Self-Identity: Are Americans Defining Themselves More Politically Over Time?
  Nick Rogers and Jason Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey Jones
  Political Science Research and Methods 4(02), 361-378. doi: 10.1017/psrm.2015.1
  
  
• Yahtzee: An Anonymized Group Level Matching Procedure
  Jason Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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:

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Book (online, free to read, in progress)

Preprints and Projects

• Attitudes Toward Artificial General Intelligence: Results from American Adults 2021 and 2023
  
• Jones-Skiena Public Opinion of Artificial Intelligence Dashboard
  
• Do LGBTQ-related Events Drive Individual Online Disclosure Decisions?
  
• WOW! Jason Jeffrey Jones Identity Trends
  
• Complex Contagions in Charitable Donations
  
• International Update Your Bio Day is August 10th
  
• Ipseology Central
  
• 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.
  
• 2022 International Pronouns Day and Twitter Visibility - data visualization and blog post