Jason Jeffrey Jones
Associate Professor |
Ph.D. 2011, UC San Diego |
Areas of Interest
Computational Social Science, Social Contagion and Social Networks
Bio
Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones is a computational social scientist whose expertise includes
online experiments, social networks, high-throughput text analysis and machine learning.
He is interested in humans’ perceptions of themselves and the developing role of artificial
intelligence in society.
Dr. Jones is the director of CSSERG (pronounced “sea surge”): the Computational Social Science of Emerging Realities Group. CSSERG is a team of scholars committed to cross-disciplinary collaboration, united
by common computational methodologies and always with eyes on the near future. CSSERG
has studied the effectiveness of virtual reality in evoking empathy, the dynamics of gender stereotypes in language over decades and temporal trends in personally expressed identity.
Dr. Jones’ research is published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and has been cited
thousands of times. His work has been discussed in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Sports Illustrated and the Washington Post. For updates on current projects, Dr. Jones’ website is the best source.
Selected Publications
Jones, J.J., Amin, M.R., Kim, J., & Skiena, S.S. (2020). Stereotypical Gender Associations in Language Have Decreased Over Time. Sociological Science, 7, 1-35.
Jones, J. J., Bond, R. M., Bakshy, E., Eckles, D., & Fowler, J. H. (2017). Social influence and political mobilization: Further evidence from a randomized experiment in the 2012 US presidential election. PloS one, 12(4), e0173851
Bond, R., Fariss, C., Jones, J. et al. A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization. Nature 489, 295–298 (2012).
Jones JJ, Settle JE, Bond RM, Fariss CJ, Marlow C, Fowler JH (2013) Inferring Tie Strength from Online Directed Behavior. PLoS ONE 8(1): e52168.
Jones JJ, Bond RM, Fariss CJ, Settle JE, Kramer AD, Marlow C, Fowler JH. Yahtzee: an anonymized group level matching procedure. PLoS One. 2013;8(2):e55760. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055760. Epub 2013 Feb 5. PMID: 23441156; PMCID: PMC3564933.