Vol. 16 (2022): Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Full Papers
Characterizing User Susceptibility to COVID-19 Misinformation on Twitter
PDFThe Manufacture of Partisan Echo Chambers by Follow Train Abuse on Twitter
PDFManipulating Twitter through Deletions
PDFOvercoming Language Disparity in Online Content Classification with Multimodal Learning
PDFAn Automated Approach to Identifying Corporate Editing
PDFModeling Latent Dimensions of Human Beliefs
PDFUsing Authorship Verification to Mitigate Abuse in Online Communities
PDFFrom Hesitancy Framings to Vaccine Hesitancy Profiles: A Journey of Stance, Ontological Commitments and Moral Foundations
PDFJudging a Book by Its Cover: Predicting the Marginal Impact of Title on Reddit Post Popularity
PDFAdjusting for Confounders with Text: Challenges and an Empirical Evaluation Framework for Causal Inference
PDFWhat Makes Online Communities ‘Better’? Measuring Values, Consensus, and Conflict across Thousands of Subreddits
PDFIntroducing an Abusive Language Classification Framework for Telegram to Investigate the German Hater Community
PDFLimits of Multilayer Diffusion Network Inference in Social Media Research
PDFKnow It to Defeat It: Exploring Health Rumor Characteristics and Debunking Efforts on Chinese Social Media during COVID-19 Crisis
PDF#Emoji: A Study on the Association between Emojis and Hashtags on Twitter
PDFPathways through Conspiracy: The Evolution of Conspiracy Radicalization through Engagement in Online Conspiracy Discussions
PDFWinds of Change: Impact of COVID-19 on Vaccine-Related Opinions of Twitter Users
PDFCommunity-Based Fact-Checking on Twitter’s Birdwatch Platform
PDFMeasuring Alignment of Online Grassroots Political Communities with Political Campaigns
PDFDeveloping Self-Advocacy Skills through Machine Learning Education: The Case of Ad Recommendation on Facebook
PDFQuantifying the Creator Economy: A Large-Scale Analysis of Patreon
PDFIdentifying and Characterizing New Expressions of Community Framing during Polarization
PDFUnsupervised Domain Adaptation for Hate Speech Detection Using a Data Augmentation Approach
PDFInfluence of Repetition through Limited Recall
PDFEngaging Politically Diverse Audiences on Social Media
PDFPerspective-Taking to Reduce Affective Polarization on Social Media
PDFIf You Have a Reliable Source, Say Something: Effects of Correction Comments on COVID-19 Misinformation
PDFCharacterizing Online Engagement with Disinformation and Conspiracies in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
PDFCOVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation Campaigns and Social Media Narratives
PDFA Tale of Two Subreddits: Measuring the Impacts of Quarantines on Political Engagement on Reddit
PDFOn Xing Tian and the Perseverance of Anti-China Sentiment Online
PDFIdentification of Twitter Bots Based on an Explainable Machine Learning Framework: The US 2020 Elections Case Study
PDFAdaptive Clustering of Robust Semantic Representations for Adversarial Image Purification on Social Networks
PDFOnline Social Support via Avatar Communication Buffers Harmful Effects of Offline Bullying Victimization
PDFIdentifying Competition and Mutualism between Online Groups
PDFSubreddit Links Drive Community Creation and User Engagement on Reddit
PDFConversational Resilience: Quantifying and Predicting Conversational Outcomes Following Adverse Events
PDFUnderstanding Local News Social Coverage and Engagement at Scale during the COVID-19 Pandemic
PDFWhose Advantage? Measuring Attention Dynamics across YouTube and Twitter on Controversial Topics
PDFAll That’s Happening behind the Scenes: Putting the Spotlight on Volunteer Moderator Labor in Reddit
PDFMeasuring the Monetary Value of Online Volunteer Work
PDFAnti-Asian Hate Speech Detection via Data Augmented Semantic Relation Inference
PDFIdentifying Hurricane Evacuation Intent on Twitter
PDFFairLP: Towards Fair Link Prediction on Social Network Graphs
PDFA Computational Approach to Understand Mental Health from Reddit: Knowledge-Aware Multitask Learning Framework
PDFCross-Platform Multimodal Misinformation: Taxonomy, Characteristics and Detection for Textual Posts and Videos
PDFThe Dynamics of Exploration on Spotify
PDFGlowing Experience or Bad Trip? A Quantitative Analysis of User Reported Drug Experiences on Erowid.org
PDFThe Contribution of Lyrics and Acoustics to Collaborative Understanding of Mood
PDFMapping Topics in 100,000 Real-Life Moral Dilemmas
PDF“Rough Day … Need a Hug”: Learning Challenges and Experiences of the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Caregivers on Reddit
PDF“It Is Just a Flu”: Assessing the Effect of Watch History on YouTube’s Pseudoscientific Video Recommendations
PDFThe Gospel according to Q: Understanding the QAnon Conspiracy from the Perspective of Canonical Information
PDFA Unified Graph-Based Approach to Disinformation Detection Using Contextual and Semantic Relations
PDFOpenness to Migrate Internationally for a Job: Evidence from LinkedIn Data in Europe
PDFNo Calm in the Storm: Investigating QAnon Website Relationships
PDFTime after Time: Longitudinal Trends in Nostalgic Listening
PDFThe Impact of Viral Posts on Visibility and Behavior of Professionals: A Longitudinal Study of Scientists on Twitter
PDFPost Approvals in Online Communities
PDFRules and Rule-Making in the Five Largest Wikipedias
PDFTwitter User Representation Using Weakly Supervised Graph Embedding
PDFThe Hipster Paradox in Electronic Dance Music: How Musicians Trade Mainstream Success off against Alternative Status
PDFTwo-Face: Adversarial Audit of Commercial Face Recognition Systems
PDFSunshine with a Chance of Smiles: How Does Weather Impact Sentiment on Social Media?
PDFMany Ways to Be Lonely: Fine-Grained Characterization of Loneliness and Its Potential Changes in COVID-19
PDFOut of the Shadows: Analyzing Anonymous’ Twitter Resurgence during the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests
PDFAre You Robert or RoBERTa? Deceiving Online Authorship Attribution Models Using Neural Text Generators
PDFLocal News Online and COVID in the U.S.: Relationships among Coverage, Cases, Deaths, and Audience
PDFSupporting Human Memory by Reconstructing Personal Episodic Narratives from Digital Traces
PDFClosing Pandora’s Box on Naver: Toward Ending Cyber Harassment
PDFReconsidering Tweets: Intervening during Tweet Creation Decreases Offensive Content
PDFFrom an Authentication Question to a Public Social Event: Characterizing Birthday Sharing on Twitter
PDFThe Web We Weave: Untangling the Social Graph of the IETF
PDFUnraveling Social Perceptions & Behaviors towards Migrants on Twitter
PDFSlipping to the Extreme: A Mixed Method to Explain How Extreme Opinions Infiltrate Online Discussions
PDFEffects of Multi-Aspect Online Reviews with Unobserved Confounders: Estimation and Implication
PDFA Decentralized Approach towards Responsible AI in Social Ecosystems
PDFThe Effect of People Recommenders on Echo Chambers and Polarization
PDFEchoes through Time: Evolution of the Italian COVID-19 Vaccination Debate
PDFSocial Media Reveals Urban-Rural Differences in Stress across China
PDFOpinion Spam Detection: A New Approach Using Machine Learning and Network-Based Algorithms
PDFDivided We Rule: Influencer Polarization on Twitter during Political Crises in India
PDFWeakening the Inner Strength: Spotting Core Collusive Users in YouTube Blackmarket Network
PDFAnalysis of the Influence of Political Polarization in the Vaccination Stance: The Brazilian COVID-19 Scenario
PDFCharacterizing Retweet Bots: The Case of Black Market Accounts
PDFDo Explanations Increase the Effectiveness of AI-Crowd Generated Fake News Warnings?
PDFExposure Inequality in People Recommender Systems: The Long-Term Effects
PDFImproving Wikidata with Student-Generated Concept Maps
PDFMining Points-of-Interest Data to Predict Urban Inequality: Evidence from Germany and France
PDFCorrecting Sociodemographic Selection Biases for Population Prediction from Social Media
PDFSAFER: Social Capital-Based Friend Recommendation to Defend against Phishing Attacks
PDFEffect of Popularity Shocks on User Behaviour
PDFAre Proactive Interventions for Reddit Communities Feasible?
PDFExploring the Magnitude and Effects of Media Influence on Reddit Moderation
PDFOn the Infrastructure Providers That Support Misinformation Websites
PDFLeaders or Followers? A Temporal Analysis of Tweets from IRA Trolls
PDFCommunity Under Surveillance: Impacts of Marginalization on an Online Labor Forum
PDFShifting Our Awareness, Taking Back Tags: Temporal Changes in Computer Vision Services’ Social Behaviors
PDFLinguistic Characterization of Divisive Topics Online: Case Studies on Contentiousness in Abortion, Climate Change, and Gun Control
PDFVisual Gender Biases in Wikipedia: A Systematic Evaluation across the Ten Most Spoken Languages
PDFTo Recommend or Not? A Model-Based Comparison of Item-Matching Processes
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Dataset Papers
Twitter Corpus of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement and Counter Protests: 2013 to 2021
PDFVaccinEU: COVID-19 Vaccine Conversations on Twitter in French, German and Italian
PDFA Large-Scale Longitudinal Multimodal Dataset of State-Backed Information Operations on Twitter
PDFA Labeled Dataset for Investigating Cyberbullying Content Patterns in Instagram
PDFThe Reddit Politosphere: A Large-Scale Text and Network Resource of Online Political Discourse
PDFBelElect: A New Dataset for Bias Research from a “Dark” Platform
PDFNELA-Local: A Dataset of U.S. Local News Articles for the Study of County-Level News Ecosystems
PDFHomepage2Vec: Language-Agnostic Website Embedding and Classification
PDFTWikiL – the Twitter Wikipedia Link Dataset
PDFI Can’t Keep It Up. A Dataset from the Defunct Voat.co News Aggregator
PDFFaCov: COVID-19 Viral News and Rumors Fact-Check Articles Dataset
PDFFactDrill: A Data Repository of Fact-Checked Social Media Content to Study Fake News Incidents in India
PDFMMCHIVED: Multimodal Chile and Venezuela Protest Event Data
PDFThe MeLa BitChute Dataset
PDFPrivacyAlert: A Dataset for Image Privacy Prediction
PDFTwitter-STMHD: An Extensive User-Level Database of Multiple Mental Health Disorders
PDFTurning Stocks into Memes: A Dataset for Understanding How Social Communities Can Drive Wall Street
PDFDISMISS: Database of Indian Social Media Influencers on Twitter
PDFFauci-Email: A JSON Digest of Anthony Fauci’s Released Emails
PDFDrink Bleach or Do What Now? COVID-HeRA: A Study of Risk-Informed Health Decision Making in the Presence of COVID-19 Misinformation
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Poster Papers
On the Context-Free Ambiguity of Emoji
PDFThe Contribution of Verified Accounts to Self-Disclosure in COVID-Related Twitter Conversations
PDFExploring Data Literacy Levels in the Crowd – the Case of COVID-19
PDFMeasuring Media Bias via Masked Language Modeling
PDFWho Is Missing? Characterizing the Participation of Different Demographic Groups in a Korean Nationwide Daily Conversation Corpus
PDFSupporting Online Toxicity Detection with Knowledge Graphs
PDFNegative Associations in Word Embeddings Predict Anti-black Bias across Regions–but Only via Name Frequency
PDFEvaluation of Fake News Detection with Knowledge-Enhanced Language Models
PDFCyberbullying Detection across Social Media Platforms via Platform-Aware Adversarial Encoding
PDFImproving Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Hate Speech Detection with Pseudo-Label Fine-Tuning of Transformer Language Models
PDF“This Candle Has No Smell”: Detecting the Effect of COVID Anosmia on Amazon Reviews Using Bayesian Vector Autoregression
PDFEvaluating Deep Taylor Decomposition for Reliability Assessment in the Wild
PDFClassifying Minority Stress Disclosure on Social Media with Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory
PDFNetwork Analysis of the Information Consumption-Production Dichotomy in Mastodon User Behaviors
PDFUnderstanding Toxicity Triggers on Reddit in the Context of Singapore
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