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Change is Hard: Consistent Player Behavior Across Games with Conflicting Incentives
Emily Chen, Alexander J. Bisberg, Dmitri Williams +2
This paper examines how player flexibility -- a player's willingness to engage in a breadth of options or specialize -- manifests across two gaming environments: League of Legends…
"Can You Play Anything Else?" Understanding Play Style Flexibility in League of Legends
Emily Chen, Alexander Bisberg, Emilio Ferrara
This study investigates the concept of flexibility within League of Legends, a popular online multiplayer game, focusing on the relationship between user adaptability and team succ…
How does Twitter account moderation work? Dynamics of account creation and suspension on Twitter during major geopolitical events
Francesco Pierri, Luca Luceri, Emily Chen +1
Social media moderation policies are often at the center of public debate, and their implementation and enactment are sometimes surrounded by a veil of mystery. Unsurprisingly, due…
What are Your Pronouns? Examining Gender Pronoun Usage on Twitter
Julie Jiang, Emily Chen, Luca Luceri +4
Stating your gender pronouns, along with your name, is becoming the new norm of self-introductions at school, at the workplace, and online. The increasing prevalence and awareness…
The Gift That Keeps on Giving: Generosity is Contagious in Multiplayer Online Games
Alexander J. Bisberg, Julie Jiang, Yilei Zeng +2
Understanding social interactions and generous behaviors have long been of considerable interest in the social science community. While the contagion of generosity is documented in…
Tweets in Time of Conflict: A Public Dataset Tracking the Twitter Discourse on the War Between Ukraine and Russia
Emily Chen, Emilio Ferrara
On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. In the days that followed, reports kept flooding in from layman to news anchors of a conflict quickly escalating into war. Russia face…
Social Bots and Social Media Manipulation in 2020: The Year in Review
Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Emily Chen, Meiqing Zhang +2
The year 2020 will be remembered for two events of global significance: the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. In this chapter, we summarize recent studies usin…
Political Partisanship and Anti-Science Attitudes in Online Discussions about Covid-19
Ashwin Rao, Fred Morstatter, Minda Hu +4
The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage communities across the US. Opinion surveys identified importance of political ideology in shaping perceptions of the pandemic and…
#Election2020: The First Public Twitter Dataset on the 2020 US Presidential Election
Emily Chen, Ashok Deb, Emilio Ferrara
The integrity of democratic political discourse is at the core to guarantee free and fair elections. With social media often dictating the tones and trends of politics-related disc…
Tracking Social Media Discourse About the COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of a Public Coronavirus Twitter Data Set
Emily Chen, Kristina Lerman, Emilio Ferrara
At the time of this writing, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak has already put tremendous strain on many countries' citizens, resources and economies around the wo…