Accepted Papers
Full Papers
| Detecting Multimodal Fake News with Gated Variational AutoEncoder Yimeng GU1, Ignacio CASTRO1, Gareth TYSON2 1 Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom 2 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ), China |
| Highly Regarded Investors? Mining Predictive Value from the Collective Intelligence of Reddit’s WallStreetBets Tolga BUZ1, Moritz SCHNEIDER1, Lucie-Aimée KAFFEE1, Gerard DE MELO1 1 Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany |
| The Role of Likes: How Online Feedback Impacts Users’ Mental Health Angelina VOGGENREITER1, Sophie BRANDT1, Fabian PUTTERER1, Andreas FRINGS1, Juergen PFEFFER1 1 Technical University of Munich, Germany |
| Echo Chambers in the Age of Algorithms: An Audit of Twitter’s Friend Recommender System Kayla DUSKIN1, Joseph SCHAFER1, Jevin WEST1, Emma SPIRO1 1 University of Washington, United States |
| Harmony in the Australian Domain Space Xian GONG1, Paul X. MCCARTHY2, Marian-Andrei RIZOIU3, Paolo BOLDI4 1 University of Technology, Australia 2 University of New South Wales, Australia 3 University of Technology Sydney, Australia 4 Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy |
| Here Be Livestreams: Trade-offs in Creating Temporal Maps of Reddit Virginia PARTRIDGE1, Jasmine MANGAT1, Rebecca CURRAN1, Ryan MCGRADY1, Ethan ZUCKERMAN1 1 University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States |
| Lost in Recursion: Mining Rich Event Semantics in Knowledge Graphs Florian PLÖTZKY1, Niklas KIEHNE1, Wolf-Tilo BALKE1 1 TU Braunschweig, Germany |
| A Genre-Based Analysis of New Music Streaming at Scale Julie JIANG1, Aditiya PONNADA2, Ang LI2, Ben LACKER2, Samuel WAY2 1 University of Southern California, United States 2 Spotify, United States |
| Analysing the Effect of Recommendation Algorithms on the Spread of Misinformation Miriam FERNANDEZ1, Alejandro BELLOGIN2, Iván CANTADOR2 1 The Open University, United Kingdom 2 Universidad Autonóma de Madrid, Spain |
| Corrective or Backfire: Characterizing and Predicting User Response to Social Correction Bing HE1, Yingchen MA1, Mustaque AHAMAD1, Srijan KUMAR1 1 Georgia Institute of Technology, United States |
| A Lexicon for Studying Radicalization in Incel Communities Emily KLEIN1, Jennifer GOLBECK2 1 University at Albany, United States 2 University of Maryland, United States |
| Dynamics in Search Engine Query Suggestions for European Politicians Franziska PRADEL1, Fabian HAAK2, Sven-Oliver PROKSCH3, Philipp SCHAER2 1 Technical University of Munich, Germany 2 TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences), Germany 3 University of Cologne, Germany |
| Using Wikipedia Pageview Data to Investigate Public Interest in Climate Change at a Global Scale Florian MEIER1 1 Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Understanding opinions towards migrants in transit: An analysis of tweets on Migrant Caravans in the US and Mexico Abigail TUN MENDICUTI1, Jisu KIM2, Clara H. MULDER1 1 University of Groningen, Netherlands 2 Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany |
| Inside the echo chamber: Linguistic underpinnings of misinformation on Twitter Xinyu WANG1, Jiayi LI1, Sarah RAJTMAJER1 1 Pennsylvania State University, United States |
| Abortion and Miscarriage on Twitter: Sentiment and Polarity Analysis from a gendered perspective Olivier PHILIPPE1, María FLORES RODERO1, Claire FURTICK1, Laura PLANAS SIMÓN2, Maria Teresa FERRETTI3, Antonella SANTUCCIONE CHADHA3, Laia SUBIRATS MATÉ4, Davide CIRILLO5, María José REMENTERIA5 1 Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain 2 Scopely, Spain 3 Women’s Brain Project, Switzerland 4 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain 5 Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain |
| What makes a viral song? Unraveling music virality factors Gabriel P. OLIVEIRA1, Ana Paula COUTO DA SILVA1, Mirella M. MORO1 1 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil |
| A Longitudinal Study of Italian and French Reddit Conversations Around the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Francesco CORSO1, Giuseppe RUSSO2, Francesco PIERRI3 1 Politecnico di Milano, CENTAI Institute, Italy 2 ETH Zurich, Switzerland 3 Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
| Reacting to Generative AI: Insights from Student and Faculty Discussions on Reddit Chuhao WU1, Xinyu WANG1, John CARROLL1, Sarah RAJTMAJER1 1 The Pennsylvania State University, United States |
| Unveiling News Publishers Trustworthiness Through Social Interactions Manuel PRATELLI1, Fabio SARACCO2, Marinella PETROCCHI3 1 IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy 2 Centro Ricerche `Enrico Fermi’, Rome, Italy 3 IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy |
| Fact checks versus problematic content in search rankings: SEO effects and the question of Google‘s content moderation Kamila KORONSKA1, Richard ROGERS1 1 University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Improved methodology for longitudinal Web analytics using Common Crawl Henry S. THOMPSON1 1 University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| Misinformation and Polarization around COVID-19 vaccines in France, Germany, and Italy Gianluca NOGARA1, Francesco PIERRI2, Stefano CRESCI3, Luca LUCERI4, Silvia GIORDANO1 1 SUPSI, Switzerland 2 Politecnico di Milano, Italy 3 IIT-CNR, Italy 4 USC Information Sciences Institute, United States |
| Waiting for Q: An Exploration of QAnon Users’ Online Migration to Poal in the Wake of Voat’s Demise Antonis PAPASAVVA1, Enrico MARICONTI1 1 University College London, United Kingdom |
| Exploring Local Music’s Place in Global Streaming Samuel WAY1, Dominika MAZUR1, Rebecca KUPFERMAN1, Megan WALSH1, Angelina TIZÉ1, Benjamin LACKER1 1 Spotify, United States |
| Shorts vs. Regular Videos on YouTube: A Comparative Analysis of User Engagement and Content Creation Trends Caroline VIOLOT1, Tuğrulcan ELMAS2, Igor BILOGREVIC3, Mathias HUMBERT1 1 University of Lausanne, Switzerland 2 Indiana University Bloomington, United States 3 Google, Switzerland |
| Hate Speech Detection and Reclaimed Language: Mitigating False Positives and Compounded Discrimination Eszter ZSISKU1, Arkaitz ZUBIAGA1, Haim DUBOSSARSKY1 1 Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom |
| Deciphering Crypto Twitter Inwon KANG1, Maruf Ahmed MRIDUL1, Abraham SANDERS1, Yao MA1, Thilanka MUNASINGHE1, Aparna GUPTA1, Oshani SENEVIRATNE1 1 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States |
| U. S. Users’ Exposure to YouTube Videos On- and Off-platform Desheng HU1, Ronald ROBERTSON2, Aniko HANNAK1, Christo WILSON3 1 University of Zurich, Switzerland 2 Stanford Internet Observatory, Stanford University, United States 3 Northeastern University, United States |
| Accuracy and Fairness for Web-Based Content Analysis under Temporal Shifts and Delayed Labeling Abdulaziz ALMUZAINI1, David PENNOCK2, Vivek SINGH1 1 Rutgers University, United States 2 Microsoft, United States |
| Temporal Dynamics of User Engagement on Instagram: A Comparative Analysis of Album, Photo, and Video Interactions Elin THORGREN1, Alireza MOHAMMADINODOOSHAN1, Niklas CARLSSON1 1 Linköping University, Sweden |
| Competition of Influencers: A Model for Maximizing Online Social Impact Franco GALANTE1, Michele GARETTO2, Emilio LEONARDI1 1 Politecnico di Torino, Italy 2 Università di Torino, Italy |
Short Papers
| Contextualized Word Embeddings Expose Ethnic Biases in News Damian TRILLING1, Guusje THIJS1, Anne C. KROON1 1 University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Social Group Differences in the Social Media Discussion about ChatGPT and Bing Chat Maximilian WEBER1 1 Goethe University, Germany |
| The role of interface design on prompt-mediated creativity in Generative AI Maddalena TORRICELLI1, Mauro MARTINO2, Andrea BARONCHELLI1, Luca Maria AIELLO3 1 City, University of London, United Kingdom 2 IBM Research, United States 3 IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Polarization in Decentralized Online Social Networks Lucio LA CAVA1, Domenico MANDAGLIO1, Andrea TAGARELLI1 1 DIMES, University of Calabria, Italy |
| An Exploration of Decentralized Moderation on Mastodon Carlo BONO1, Lucio LA CAVA2, Luca LUCERI3, Francesco PIERRI1 1 DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 2 DIMES, University of Calabria, Italy 3 USC Information Sciences Institute, United States |
| Conspiracy Narratives on Voat: A Longitudinal Analysis of Cognitive Activation and Evolutionary Psychology Features Veronika BATZDORFER1 1 GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany |
| Shifting Climates: Climate Change Communication from YouTube to TikTok Arianna PERA1, Luca Maria AIELLO1 1 IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Uncovering Gender Bias within Journalist-Politician Interaction in Indian Twitter Brisha JAIN1, Mainack MONDAL2 1 Independent researcher, India 2 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India |