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Which side are you on? Insider-Outsider classification in conspiracy-theoretic social media
Pavan Holur, Tianyi Wang, Shadi Shahsavari +2
Social media is a breeding ground for threat narratives and related conspiracy theories. In these, an outside group threatens the integrity of an inside group, leading to the emerg…
Modeling Social Readers: Novel Tools for Addressing Reception from Online Book Reviews
Pavan Holur, Shadi Shahsavari, Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh +2
Readers' responses to literature have received scant attention in computational literary studies. The rise of social media offers an opportunity to capture a segment of these respo…
An automated pipeline for the discovery of conspiracy and conspiracy theory narrative frameworks: Bridgegate, Pizzagate and storytelling on the web
Timothy R. Tangherlini, Shadi Shahsavari, Behnam Shahbazi +2
Although a great deal of attention has been paid to how conspiracy theories circulate on social media and their factual counterpart conspiracies, there has been little computationa…
Conspiracy in the Time of Corona: Automatic detection of Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories in Social Media and the News
Shadi Shahsavari, Pavan Holur, Timothy R. Tangherlini +1
Rumors and conspiracy theories thrive in environments of low confidence and low trust. Consequently, it is not surprising that ones related to the Covid-19 pandemic are proliferati…
An Automated Pipeline for Character and Relationship Extraction from Readers' Literary Book Reviews on Goodreads.com
Shadi Shahsavari, Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh, Behnam Shahbazi +5
Reader reviews of literary fiction on social media, especially those in persistent, dedicated forums, create and are in turn driven by underlying narrative frameworks. In their com…