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Tube2Vec: Social and Semantic Embeddings of YouTube Channels
Léopaul Boesinger, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Veniamin Veselovsky +1
Research using YouTube data often explores social and semantic dimensions of channels and videos. Typically, analyses rely on laborious manual annotation of content and content cre…
Curious Rhythms: Temporal Regularities of Wikipedia Consumption
Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Gerlach, Robert West
Wikipedia, in its role as the world's largest encyclopedia, serves a broad range of information needs. Although previous studies have noted that Wikipedia users' information needs…
The Amplification Paradox in Recommender Systems
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Veniamin Veselovsky, Robert West
Automated audits of recommender systems found that blindly following recommendations leads users to increasingly partisan, conspiratorial, or false content. At the same time, studi…
Quotatives Indicate Decline in Objectivity in U.S. Political News
Tiancheng Hu, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West +1
According to journalistic standards, direct quotes should be attributed to sources with objective quotatives such as "said" and "told", as nonobjective quotatives, like "argued" an…
Going Down the Rabbit Hole: Characterizing the Long Tail of Wikipedia Reading Sessions
Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Gerlach, Robert West
"Wiki rabbit holes" are informally defined as navigation paths followed by Wikipedia readers that lead them to long explorations, sometimes involving unexpected articles. Although…
Characterizing Alternative Monetization Strategies on YouTube
Yiqing Hua, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West +2
One of the key emerging roles of the YouTube platform is providing creators the ability to generate revenue from their content and interactions. Alongside tools provided directly b…
Wikipedia Reader Navigation: When Synthetic Data Is Enough
Akhil Arora, Martin Gerlach, Tiziano Piccardi +2
Every day millions of people read Wikipedia. When navigating the vast space of available topics using hyperlinks, readers describe trajectories on the article network. Understandin…
A Large-Scale Characterization of How Readers Browse Wikipedia
Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Gerlach, Akhil Arora +1
Despite the importance and pervasiveness of Wikipedia as one of the largest platforms for open knowledge, surprisingly little is known about how people navigate its content when se…
Can online attention signals help fact-checkers fact-check?
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Savvas Zannettou, Oana Goga +2
Recent research suggests that not all fact-checking efforts are equal: when and what is fact-checked plays a pivotal role in effectively correcting misconceptions. In that context,…
On the Value of Wikipedia as a Gateway to the Web
Tiziano Piccardi, Miriam Redi, Giovanni Colavizza +1
By linking to external websites, Wikipedia can act as a gateway to the Web. To date, however, little is known about the amount of traffic generated by Wikipedia's external links. W…
Are Anti-Feminist Communities Gateways to the Far Right? Evidence from Reddit and YouTube
Robin Mamié, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West
Researchers have suggested that "the Manosphere," a conglomerate of men-centered online communities, may serve as a gateway to far right movements. In that context, this paper quan…
Volunteer contributions to Wikipedia increased during COVID-19 mobility restrictions
Thorsten Ruprechter, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Tiago Santos +4
Wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia ever created, is a global initiative driven by volunteer contributions. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out and mobility restrictions ensued ac…
Darks and Stripes: Effects of Clothing on Weight Perception
Kirill Martynov, Kiran Garimella, Robert West
In many societies, appearing slim is considered attractive. The fashion industry has been attempting to cater to this trend by designing outfits that can enhance the appearance of…
Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Shagun Jhaver, Savvas Zannettou +4
When toxic online communities on mainstream platforms face moderation measures, such as bans, they may migrate to other platforms with laxer policies or set up their own dedicated…
Global gender differences in Wikipedia readership
Isaac Johnson, Florian Lemmerich, Diego Sáez-Trumper +3
Wikipedia represents the largest and most popular source of encyclopedic knowledge in the world today, aiming to provide equal access to information worldwide. From a global online…
Sudden Attention Shifts on Wikipedia During the COVID-19 Crisis
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Kristina Gligorić, Maxime Peyrard +3
We study how the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside the severe mobility restrictions that ensued, has impacted information access on Wikipedia, the world's largest online encyclopedia. A…
WikiHist.html: English Wikipedia's Full Revision History in HTML Format
Blagoj Mitrevski, Tiziano Piccardi, Robert West
Wikipedia is written in the wikitext markup language. When serving content, the MediaWiki software that powers Wikipedia parses wikitext to HTML, thereby inserting additional conte…