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22 papers
Robustness and Confounders in the Demographic Alignment of LLMs with Human Perceptions of Offensiveness
Shayan Alipour, Indira Sen, Mattia Samory +1
Large language models (LLMs) are known to exhibit demographic biases, yet few studies systematically evaluate these biases across multiple datasets or account for confounding facto…
Investigating Characteristics of Media Recommendation Solicitation in r/ifyoulikeblank
Md Momen Bhuiyan, Donghan Hu, Andrew Jelson +2
Despite the existence of search-based recommender systems like Google, Netflix, and Spotify, online users sometimes may turn to crowdsourced recommendations in places like the r/if…
A Survey on Event-based News Narrative Extraction
Brian Keith Norambuena, Tanushree Mitra, Chris North
Narratives are fundamental to our understanding of the world, providing us with a natural structure for knowledge representation over time. Computational narrative extraction is a…
Assessing enactment of content regulation policies: A post hoc crowd-sourced audit of election misinformation on YouTube
Prerna Juneja, Md Momen Bhuiyan, Tanushree Mitra
With the 2022 US midterm elections approaching, conspiratorial claims about the 2020 presidential elections continue to threaten users' trust in the electoral process. To regulate…
Mixed Multi-Model Semantic Interaction for Graph-based Narrative Visualizations
Brian Keith Norambuena, Tanushree Mitra, Chris North
Narrative sensemaking is an essential part of understanding sequential data. Narrative maps are a visual representation model that can assist analysts to understand narratives. In…
NewsComp: Facilitating Diverse News Reading through Comparative Annotation
Md Momen Bhuiyan, Sang Won Lee, Nitesh Goyal +1
To support efficient, balanced news consumption, merging articles from diverse sources into one, potentially through crowdsourcing, could alleviate some hurdles. However, the mergi…
Characterizing Social Movement Narratives in Online Communities: The 2021 Cuban Protests on Reddit
Brian Felipe Keith Norambuena, Tanushree Mitra, Chris North
Social movements are dominated by storytelling, as narratives play a key role in how communities involved in these movements shape their identities. Thus, recognizing the accepted…
Building Human Values into Recommender Systems: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis
Jonathan Stray, Alon Halevy, Parisa Assar +18
Recommender systems are the algorithms which select, filter, and personalize content across many of the worlds largest platforms and apps. As such, their positive and negative effe…
Human and technological infrastructures of fact-checking
Prerna Juneja, Tanushree Mitra
Increasing demands for fact-checking has led to a growing interest in developing systems and tools to automate the fact-checking process. However, such systems are limited in pract…
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…
Algorithmic nudge to make better choices: Evaluating effectiveness of XAI frameworks to reveal biases in algorithmic decision making to users
Prerna Juneja, Tanushree Mitra
In this position paper, we propose the use of existing XAI frameworks to design interventions in scenarios where algorithms expose users to problematic content (e.g. anti vaccine v…
OtherTube: Facilitating Content Discovery and Reflection by Exchanging YouTube Recommendations with Strangers
Md Momen Bhuiyan, Carlos Augusto Bautista Isaza, Tanushree Mitra +1
To promote engagement, recommendation algorithms on platforms like YouTube increasingly personalize users' feeds, limiting users' exposure to diverse content and depriving them of…
Design guidelines for narrative maps in sensemaking tasks
Brian Felipe Keith Norambuena, Tanushree Mitra, Chris North
Narrative sensemaking is a fundamental process to understand sequential information. Narrative maps are a visual representation framework that can aid analysts in their narrative s…
Designing Transparency Cues in Online News Platforms to Promote Trust: Journalists' & Consumers' Perspectives
Md Momen Bhuiyan, Hayden Whitley, Michael Horning +2
As news organizations embrace transparency practices on their websites to distinguish themselves from those spreading misinformation, HCI designers have the opportunity to help the…
NudgeCred: Supporting News Credibility Assessment on Social Media Through Nudges
Md Momen Bhuiyan, Michael Horning, Sang Won Lee +1
Struggling to curb misinformation, social media platforms are experimenting with design interventions to enhance consumption of credible news on their platforms. Some of these inte…
Narrative Sensemaking: Strategies for Narrative Maps Construction
Brian Felipe Keith Norambuena, Tanushree Mitra, Chris North
Narrative sensemaking is a fundamental process to understand sequential information. Narrative maps are a visual representation framework that can aid analysts in this process. The…
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…
Auditing E-Commerce Platforms for Algorithmically Curated Vaccine Misinformation
Prerna Juneja, Tanushree Mitra
There is a growing concern that e-commerce platforms are amplifying vaccine-misinformation. To investigate, we conduct two-sets of algorithmic audits for vaccine misinformation on…
Narrative Maps: An Algorithmic Approach to Represent and Extract Information Narratives
Brian Keith, Tanushree Mitra
Narratives are fundamental to our perception of the world and are pervasive in all activities that involve the representation of events in time. Yet, modern online information syst…
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…
Online Social Deception and Its Countermeasures for Trustworthy Cyberspace: A Survey
Zhen Guo, Jin-Hee Cho, Ing-Ray Chen +3
We are living in an era when online communication over social network services (SNSs) have become an indispensable part of people's everyday lives. As a consequence, online social…