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Inducing Political Bias Allows Language Models Anticipate Partisan Reactions to Controversies
Zihao He, Siyi Guo, Ashwin Rao +1
Social media platforms are rife with politically charged discussions. Therefore, accurately deciphering and predicting partisan biases using Large Language Models (LLMs) is increas…
Polarized Online Discourse on Abortion: Frames and Hostile Expressions among Liberals and Conservatives
Ashwin Rao, Rong-Ching Chang, Qiankun Zhong +2
Abortion has been one of the most divisive issues in the United States. Yet, missing is comprehensive longitudinal evidence on how political divides on abortion are reflected in pu…
Affective Polarization and Dynamics of Information Spread in Online Networks
Kristina Lerman, Dan Feldman, Zihao He +1
Members of different political groups not only disagree about issues but also dislike and distrust each other. While social media can amplify this emotional divide -- called affect…
Transcribing Educational Videos Using Whisper: A preliminary study on using AI for transcribing educational videos
Ashwin Rao
Videos are increasingly being used for e-learning, and transcripts are vital to enhance the learning experience. The costs and delays of generating transcripts can be alleviated by…
Measuring Online Emotional Reactions to Events
Siyi Guo, Zihao He, Ashwin Rao +5
The rich and dynamic information environment of social media provides researchers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs with opportunities to learn about social phenomena in a timely m…
Socio-Linguistic Characteristics of Coordinated Inauthentic Accounts
Keith Burghardt, Ashwin Rao, Siyi Guo +6
Online manipulation is a pressing concern for democracies, but the actions and strategies of coordinated inauthentic accounts, which have been used to interfere in elections, are n…
Pandemic Culture Wars: Partisan Differences in the Moral Language of COVID-19 Discussions
Ashwin Rao, Siyi Guo, Sze-Yuh Nina Wang +2
Effective response to pandemics requires coordinated adoption of mitigation measures, like masking and quarantines, to curb a virus's spread. However, as the COVID-19 pandemic demo…
#RoeOverturned: Twitter Dataset on the Abortion Rights Controversy
Rong-Ching Chang, Ashwin Rao, Qiankun Zhong +2
On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned landmark rulings made in its 1973 verdict in Roe v. Wade. The justices by way of a majority vote in Dobbs v. Jackson Wo…