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Temporal Analysis of Misinformation on Parler
Eliana Norton, Thaïs Thomas, Akaash Kolluri +2
Social media platforms have facilitated the rapid spread of dis- and mis-information. Parler, a US-based fringe social media platform that positions itself as a champion of free-sp…
Understanding Lexical Biases when Identifying Gang-related Social Media Communications
Dhiraj Murthy, Constantine Caramanis, Koustav Rudra
Individuals involved in gang-related activity use mainstream social media including Facebook and Twitter to express taunts and threats as well as grief and memorializing. However,…
Social Media COVID-19 Contact Tracing Using Mobile Social Payments and Facebook Data
Shrivu Shankar, Dhiraj Murthy, Hassan Dashtian
Many in the US were reluctant to report their COVID-19 cases at the height of the pandemic (e.g., for fear of missing work or other obligations due to quarantine mandates). Other m…
Predicting Gender and Political Affiliation Using Mobile Payment Data
Ben Stobaugh, Dhiraj Murthy
We explore the understudied area of social payments to evaluate whether or not we can predict the gender and political affiliation of Venmo users based on the content of their Venm…
Theme and Topic: How Qualitative Research and Topic Modeling Can Be Brought Together
Marco Gillies, Dhiraj Murthy, Harry Brenton +1
Qualitative research is an approach to understanding social phenomenon based around human interpretation of data, particularly text. Probabilistic topic modelling is a machine lear…
PoxVerifi: An Information Verification System to Combat Monkeypox Misinformation
Akaash Kolluri, Kami Vinton, Dhiraj Murthy
Following recent outbreaks, monkeypox-related misinformation continues to rapidly spread online. This negatively impacts response strategies and disproportionately harms LGBTQ+ com…
An Information Retrieval Approach to Building Datasets for Hate Speech Detection
Md Mustafizur Rahman, Dinesh Balakrishnan, Dhiraj Murthy +2
Building a benchmark dataset for hate speech detection presents various challenges. Firstly, because hate speech is relatively rare, random sampling of tweets to annotate is very i…
CML-COVID: A Large-Scale COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with Latent Topics, Sentiment and Location Information
Hassan Dashtian, Dhiraj Murthy
As a platform, Twitter has been a significant public space for discussion related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Public social media platforms such as Twitter represent important sites…
Visualizing Collective Discursive User Interactions in Online Life Science Communities
Dhiraj Murthy, Alexander Gross, Stephanie Bond
This paper highlights the rationale for the development of BioViz, a tool to help visualize the existence of collective user interactions in online life science communities. The fi…