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Locating and Controlling Implicit Personalization in Large Language Models
Yueru Yan, Siqi Wu, Thai Le
Large language models (LLMs) often shift their outputs in response to implicit demographic cues even when users never state a demographic identity. Previous work has documented thi…
Auditing Algorithmic Personalization in TikTok Comment Sections
Yueru Yan, Siqi Wu
Personalization algorithms are ubiquitous in modern social computing systems, yet their effects on comment sections remain underexplored. In this work, we conducted an algorithmic…
Calibrate-Extrapolate: Rethinking Prevalence Estimation with Black Box Classifiers
Siqi Wu, Paul Resnick
In computational social science, researchers often use a pre-trained, black box classifier to estimate the frequency of each class in unlabeled datasets. A variety of prevalence es…
The Shapes of the Fourth Estate During the Pandemic: Profiling COVID-19 News Consumption in Eight Countries
Cai Yang, Lexing Xie, Siqi Wu
News media is often referred to as the Fourth Estate, a recognition of its political power. New understandings of how media shape political beliefs and influence collective behavio…
How to Train Your YouTube Recommender to Avoid Unwanted Videos
Alexander Liu, Siqi Wu, Paul Resnick
YouTube provides features for users to indicate disinterest when presented with unwanted recommendations, such as the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" buttons. These…
Just Another Day on Twitter: A Complete 24 Hours of Twitter Data
Juergen Pfeffer, Daniel Matter, Kokil Jaidka +13
At the end of October 2022, Elon Musk concluded his acquisition of Twitter. In the weeks and months before that, several questions were publicly discussed that were not only of int…
Whose Advantage? Measuring Attention Dynamics across YouTube and Twitter on Controversial Topics
JooYoung Lee, Siqi Wu, Ali Mert Ertugrul +2
The ideological asymmetries have been recently observed in contested online spaces, where conservative voices seem to be relatively more pronounced even though liberals are known t…
Cross-Partisan Discussions on YouTube: Conservatives Talk to Liberals but Liberals Don't Talk to Conservatives
Siqi Wu, Paul Resnick
We present the first large-scale measurement study of cross-partisan discussions between liberals and conservatives on YouTube, based on a dataset of 274,241 political videos from…
AttentionFlow: Visualising Influence in Networks of Time Series
Minjeong Shin, Alasdair Tran, Siqi Wu +4
The collective attention on online items such as web pages, search terms, and videos reflects trends that are of social, cultural, and economic interest. Moreover, attention trends…
Unsupervised Cyberbullying Detection via Time-Informed Gaussian Mixture Model
Lu Cheng, Kai Shu, Siqi Wu +3
Social media is a vital means for information-sharing due to its easy access, low cost, and fast dissemination characteristics. However, increases in social media usage have corres…
Variation across Scales: Measurement Fidelity under Twitter Data Sampling
Siqi Wu, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Lexing Xie
A comprehensive understanding of data quality is the cornerstone of measurement studies in social media research. This paper presents in-depth measurements on the effects of Twitte…
Estimating Attention Flow in Online Video Networks
Siqi Wu, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Lexing Xie
Online videos have shown tremendous increase in Internet traffic. Most video hosting sites implement recommender systems, which connect the videos into a directed network and conce…
Will This Video Go Viral? Explaining and Predicting the Popularity of Youtube Videos
Quyu Kong, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Siqi Wu +1
What makes content go viral? Which videos become popular and why others don't? Such questions have elicited significant attention from both researchers and industry, particularly i…
Beyond Views: Measuring and Predicting Engagement in Online Videos
Siqi Wu, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Lexing Xie
The share of videos in the internet traffic has been growing, therefore understanding how videos capture attention on a global scale is also of growing importance. Most current res…