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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…
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…
Generative AI collective behavior needs an interactionist paradigm
Laura Ferrarotti, Gian Maria Campedelli, Roberto Dessì +7
In this article, we argue that understanding the collective behavior of agents based on large language models (LLMs) is an essential area of inquiry, with important implications in…
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…