Publications (31)
(Mis)alignment Between Stance Expressed in Social Media Data and Public Opinion Surveys
Kenneth Joseph, Sarah Shugars, Ryan Gallagher +4
Stance detection, which aims to determine whether an individual is for or against a target concept, promises to uncover public opinion from large streams of social media data. Yet…
Why do people think liberals drink lattes? How social media afforded self-presentation can shape subjective social sorting
Samantha C. Phillips, Kathleen M. Carley, Kenneth Joseph
Social sorting, the alignment of social identities, affiliations, and/or preferences with partisan groups, can increase in-party attachment and decrease out-party tolerance. We pro…
Local News Online and COVID in the U.S.: Relationships among Coverage, Cases, Deaths, and Audience
Kenneth Joseph, Benjamin D. Horne, Jon Green +1
We present analyses from a real-time information monitoring system of online local news in the U.S. We study relationships among online local news coverage of COVID, cases and deat…
MDR Cluster-Debias: A Nonlinear WordEmbedding Debiasing Pipeline
Yuhao Du, Kenneth Joseph
Existing methods for debiasing word embeddings often do so only superficially, in that words that are stereotypically associated with, e.g., a particular gender in the original emb…
A large-scale analysis of public-facing, community-built chatbots on Character.AI
Owen Lee, Kenneth Joseph
This paper presents the first large-scale analysis of public-facing chatbots on CharacterAI, a rapidly growing social media platform where users create and interact with chatbot…
Who Gets What, According to Whom? An Analysis of Fairness Perceptions in Service Allocation
Jacqueline Hannan, Huei-Yen Winnie Chen, Kenneth Joseph
Algorithmic fairness research has traditionally been linked to the disciplines of philosophy, ethics, and economics, where notions of fairness are prescriptive and seek objectivity…