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What Makes Online Communities 'Better'? Measuring Values, Consensus, and Conflict across Thousands of Subreddits
Galen Weld, Amy X. Zhang, Tim Althoff
Making online social communities 'better' is a challenging undertaking, as online communities are extraordinarily varied in their size, topical focus, and governance. As such, what…
Making Online Communities 'Better': A Taxonomy of Community Values on Reddit
Galen Weld, Amy X. Zhang, Tim Althoff
Many researchers studying online communities seek to make them better. However, beyond a small set of widely-held values, such as combating misinformation and abuse, determining wh…
Goldilocks: Consistent Crowdsourced Scalar Annotations with Relative Uncertainty
Quanze Chen, Daniel S. Weld, Amy X. Zhang
Human ratings have become a crucial resource for training and evaluating machine learning systems. However, traditional elicitation methods for absolute and comparative rating suff…
Decentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-level Governance in Online Social Platforms
Shagun Jhaver, Seth Frey, Amy Zhang
Many have criticized the centralized and unaccountable governance of prominent online social platforms, leading to renewed interest in platform governance that incorporates multipl…
Exploring Lightweight Interventions at Posting Time to Reduce the Sharing of Misinformation on Social Media
Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, Amy X. Zhang, Adam J. Berinsky +3
When users on social media share content without considering its veracity, they may unwittingly be spreading misinformation. In this work, we investigate the design of lightweight…
Designing for Engaging with News using Moral Framing towards Bridging Ideological Divides
Jessica Wang, Amy Zhang, David Karger
Society is showing signs of strong ideological polarization. When pushed to seek perspectives different from their own, people often reject diverse ideas or find them unfathomable.…