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Affective publics in Arabic YouTube
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Craig Douglas Albert, Abdullah Melhem +2
What is the emotional register of Arabic YouTube's affective publics? To investigate this, we analyzed 67,725 YouTube comments collected around socio-political topics associated wi…
Beyond Effectiveness: A Multi-Criteria Framework for Comparing Practical Socio-Technical Interventions
Catherine King, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Designers and policymakers in sociotechnical domains like content moderation, privacy interfaces, recommender systems and beyond, must choose among a growing menu of proposed inter…
Modeling Social Dynamics with an LLM-Enabled Agent Based Network-Dynamic (LAND) Model
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Social dynamics encode the process in which individual network and discourse interactions aggregate into collective influence, narrative dominance and coordinate behavior. This pap…
User-Reported Misinformation Exposure Across Social Media Platforms
Catherine King, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
In this study, we surveyed users for their perception of misinformation exposure across social media platforms. Such perceived exposure is important because individuals' beliefs ab…
The Structural Influence of Low-Credibility Narratives During the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Wenqi Zhou, Kathleen M. Carley
This work examines the structural influence of low-credibility narratives and the comparative role of automated accounts (bots) versus human users on social media platforms. To mor…
Social Theory Should Be a Structural Prior for Agentic AI: A Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Social Systems
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Iain J. Cruickshank, Adrian Xuan Wei Lim +1
Agentic AI systems are increasingly deployed not in isolation, but inside social environments populated by other agents and humans, such as in social media platforms, multi-agent L…
The Architects of Narrative Evolution: Actor Interventions Across the SAGES Framework in Information Campaigns
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Yukai Zeng, Muthiah Ponmani
Narratives in digital spaces are not merely organic phenomena. They are strategically shaped by a range of actors to influence public perception, behavior, and sociopolitical outco…
FATe of Bots: Ethical Considerations of Social Bot Detection
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Ethan Pan, Michael Miller Yoder +1
A growing suite of research illustrates the negative impact of social media bots in amplifying harmful information with widespread social implications. Social bot detection algorit…
BotSim: Mitigating The Formation Of Conspiratorial Societies with Useful Bots
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Societies can become a conspiratorial society where there is a majority of humans that believe, and therefore spread, conspiracy theories. Artificial intelligence gave rise to soci…
Simulating Misinformation Vulnerabilities With Agent Personas
David Farr, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Stephen Prochaska +2
Disinformation campaigns can distort public perception and destabilize institutions. Understanding how different populations respond to information is crucial for designing effecti…
Trends of Pink Slime Journalism Advertisement Expenditure and Spread on Facebook from 2019-2024
Christine Sowa Lepird, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Pink slime journalism is a practice where news outlets publish low-quality or inflammatory partisan articles, claiming to be local news networks. This paper examines the spread of…
AuraSight: Generating Realistic Social Media Data
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Bianca N. Y. Kang, Kathleen M. Carley
This document details the narrative and technical design behind the process of generating a quasi-realistic set X data for a fictional multi-day pop culture episode (AuraSight). So…
Are LLM-Powered Social Media Bots Realistic?
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become more sophisticated, there is a possibility to harness LLMs to power social media bots. This work investigates the realism of generating LLM-P…
Star Network Motifs on X during COVID-19
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Divyaansh Sinha, Kathleen M. Carley
Social network motifs are recurring patterns of small subgraphs that indicate fundamental patterns of social communication. In this work, we study the simple star network motifs th…
Appeal and Scope of Misinformation Spread by AI Agents and Humans
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Wenqi Zhou, Kathleen M. Carley
This work examines the influence of misinformation and the role of AI agents, called bots, on social network platforms. To quantify the impact of misinformation, it proposes two ne…
The Dual Personas of Social Media Bots
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Social media bots are AI agents that participate in online conversations. Most studies focus on the general bot and the malicious nature of these agents. However, bots have many di…
Navigating Decentralized Online Social Networks: An Overview of Technical and Societal Challenges in Architectural Choices
Ujun Jeong, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley +1
Decentralized online social networks have evolved from experimental stages to operating at unprecedented scale, with broader adoption and more active use than ever before. Platform…
What is a Social Media Bot? A Global Comparison of Bot and Human Characteristics
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Chatter on social media is 20% bots and 80% humans. Chatter by bots and humans is consistently different: bots tend to use linguistic cues that can be easily automated while humans…
Building Bridges between Users and Content across Multiple Platforms during Natural Disasters
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Iain J. Cruickshank, David Farr
Social media is a primary medium for information diffusion during natural disasters. The social media ecosystem has been used to identify destruction, analyze opinions and organize…
Social Cyber Geographical Worldwide Inventory of Bots
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Social Cyber Geography is the space in the digital cyber realm that is produced through social relations. Communication in the social media ecosystem happens not only because of hu…
Moral and emotional influences on attitude stability towards COVID-19 vaccines on social media
Samantha C. Phillips, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Wenqi Zhou +1
Effective public health messaging benefits from understanding antecedents to unstable attitudes that are more likely to be influenced. This work investigates the relationship betwe…
Examining the Influence of Political Bias on Large Language Model Performance in Stance Classification
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Iain Cruickshank, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in executing tasks based on natural language queries. However, these models, trained on curated datasets, inh…
Blended Bots: Infiltration through Identity Deception on Social Media
Samantha C. Phillips, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Bots are automated social media users that can be used to amplify (mis)information and sow harmful discourse. In order to effectively influence users, bots can be generated to repr…
Automated versus Human Engagement: Mapping Cognitive Bias Triggers in Online Discourse
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Wenqi Zhou, Kathleen M. Carley
In the digital environment, human attention is frequently guided by cognitive heuristics rather than deliberate evaluation. Since low-credibility narratives often lack substantive…