Jason J. Jones

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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.  

Select Works:

Measuring Trends in Identity Transition Using Social Media Bios: A Methodology and Proof of Concept
Nick Rogers and Jason Jeffrey Jones
Proceedings of the Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling 18th International Conference. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-07715-8_3

Identity diversification and homogenization: Evidence from frequent estimates of similarity of self-authored, self-descriptive text
Danial Vahabli and Jason Jeffrey Jones
Journal of Computational Social Science, 8(2). doi: 10.1007/s42001-025-00358-

Statewise: Human Identity Investigator for the United States
Dakota Handzlik, Jason Jeffrey Jones and Steven Skiena
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 19. June 2025. doi: 10.1609/icwsm.v19i1.35949

LGBTQ Visibility Measured Consistently and Persistently in US Twitter Bios from 2012 through 2023
Jason Jeffrey Jones and Irissa Cisternino
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 4. doi: 10.51685/jqd.2024.017

HINENI: Human Identity across Nations of the Earth Ngram Investigator
Dakota Handzlik, Jason Jeffrey Jones and Steven Skiena
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 18. June 2024. doi: 10.1609/icwsm.v18i1.31331