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Adolescence to Adulthood Online: Tracing Youth Digital Expression on Reddit Over 13 Years
Tyler Chang, Khushboo Patel, Afsaneh Razi +1
Reddit is widely used in research on youth and social media, yet there has been limited systematic examination of the diversity of content produced by young users or how their part…
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…
Asking For It: Question-Answering for Predicting Rule Infractions in Online Content Moderation
Mattia Samory, Diana Pamfile, Andrew To +1
Online communities rely on a mix of platform policies and community-authored rules to define acceptable behavior and maintain order. However, these rules vary widely across communi…
Exit Stories: Using Reddit Self-Disclosures to Understand Disengagement from Problematic Communities
Shruti Phadke
Online platforms like Reddit are increasingly becoming popular for individuals sharing personal experiences of leaving behind social, ideological, and political groups. Specificall…
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…
Pathways through Conspiracy: The Evolution of Conspiracy Radicalization through Engagement in Online Conspiracy Discussions
Shruti Phadke, Mattia Samory, Tanushree Mitra
The disruptive offline mobilization of participants in online conspiracy theory (CT) discussions has highlighted the importance of understanding how online users may form radicaliz…
Characterizing Social Imaginaries and Self-Disclosures of Dissonance in Online Conspiracy Discussion Communities
Shruti Phadke, Mattia Samory, Tanushree Mitra
Online discussion platforms offer a forum to strengthen and propagate belief in misinformed conspiracy theories. Yet, they also offer avenues for conspiracy theorists to express th…
Educators, Solicitors, Flamers, Motivators, Sympathizers: Characterizing Roles in Online Extremist Movements
Shruti Phadke, Tanushree Mitra
Social media provides the means by which extremist social movements, such as white supremacy and anti LGBTQ, thrive online. Yet, we know little about the roles played by the partic…
What Makes People Join Conspiracy Communities?: Role of Social Factors in Conspiracy Engagement
Shruti Phadke, Mattia Samory, Tanushree Mitra
Widespread conspiracy theories, like those motivating anti-vaccination attitudes or climate change denial, propel collective action and bear society-wide consequences. Yet, empiric…