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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…