4 papers
The Gray Area: Characterizing Moderator Disagreement on Reddit
Shayan Alipour, Shruti Phadke, Seyed Shahabeddin Mousavi +3
Volunteer moderators play a crucial role in sustaining online dialogue, but they often disagree about what should or should not be allowed. In this paper, we study the complexity o…
Towards Designing Social Interventions For Online Climate Change Denialism Discussions
Ruican Zhong, Shruti Phadke, Beth Goldberg +1
As conspiracy theories gain traction, it has become crucial to research effective intervention strategies that can foster evidence and science-based discussions in conspiracy theor…
Characterizing Political Campaigning with Lexical Mutants on Indian Social Media
Shruti Phadke, Tanushree Mitra
Increasingly online platforms are becoming popular arenas of political amplification in India. With known instances of pre-organized coordinated operations, researchers are questio…
MultiSiam: A Multiple Input Siamese Network For Social Media Text Classification And Duplicate Text Detection
Sudhanshu Bhoi, Swapnil Markhedkar, Shruti Phadke +1
Social media accounts post increasingly similar content, creating a chaotic experience across platforms, which makes accessing desired information difficult. These posts can be org…