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cs.HC2026

Identifying a Level-up Pathway for AI-assisted Counterspeech through Elaboration

Han Li, Inhwan Bae, Natalie Bazarova +1

The paper evaluates three AI‑assisted writing systems that help ordinary social‑media users craft counterspeech against vaccine‑skeptical posts, finding that AI support—especially…

cs.SI2026

Feminist voices, partisan networks: gender and political communication by MEPs on social media

Ainara Larrondo-Ureta, Simón Peña-Fernández, Julen Orbegozo-Terradillos +1

The paper examines how gender influences the way European Parliament members use Twitter, finding that female MEPs tweet more, focus more on equality and LGBTQ+ issues, and adopt a…

cs.HC2026

User-Reported Misinformation Exposure Across Social Media Platforms

Catherine King, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley

The paper surveys U.S. users about how often they think they encounter misinformation on different social media platforms and finds exposure varies by platform and is only loosely…

cs.CL2026

TikStance: A Multimodal and Hierarchical Dataset for Multi-target Stance Analysis in TikTok Political Conversations

Yazhi Zhang, Fuqiang Niu, Bowen Zhang

The paper presents TikStance, a multimodal dataset of TikTok videos and their hierarchical comment trees annotated for stance toward three U.S. political figures, enabling research…

cs.GT2026

Game Theory in Social Media: A Stackelberg Model of Collaboration, Conflict, and Algorithmic Incentives

Arjan Khadka

The paper models social media platforms as Stackelberg leaders that set algorithmic incentives, while content creators act as followers choosing collaboration or conflict (beefing)…

cs.HC2026

ExpressionCueLens: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Human-AI Companion Conversations on Social Media

Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Yunze Xiao, Lionel Z. Wang +2

The paper presents ExpressionCueLens, a framework for categorizing anthropomorphic expressions in human‑AI companion conversations, and uses it to compare how Reddit and XiaoHongSh…