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From Flowers to Fascism? The Cottagecore to Tradwife Pipeline on Tumblr
Oliver Mel Allen, Yi Zu, Milo Z. Trujillo +1
In this work we collected and analyzed social media posts to investigate aesthetic-based radicalization where users searching for Cottagecore content may find Tradwife content co-o…
Invisible Labor: The Backbone of Open Source Software
Robin A. Lange, Anna Gibson, Milo Z. Trujillo +1
Invisible labor is an intrinsic part of the modern workplace, and includes labor that is undervalued or unrecognized such as creating collaborative atmospheres. Open source softwar…
Tokens, the oft-overlooked appetizer: Large language models, the distributional hypothesis, and meaning
Julia Witte Zimmerman, Denis Hudon, Kathryn Cramer +9
Tokenization is a necessary component within the current architecture of many language mod-els, including the transformer-based large language models (LLMs) of Generative AI, yet i…
Invisible Labor in Open Source Software Ecosystems
John Meluso, Amanda Casari, Katie McLaughlin +1
Invisible labor is work that is either not fully visible or not appropriately compensated. In open source software (OSS) ecosystems, essential tasks that do not involve code (like…
Measuring Centralization of Online Platforms Through Size and Interconnection of Communities
Milo Z. Trujillo, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, James Bagrow
Decentralized architecture offers a robust and flexible structure for online platforms, since centralized moderation and computation can be easy to disrupt with targeted attacks. H…
A blind spot for large language models: Supradiegetic linguistic information
Julia Witte Zimmerman, Denis Hudon, Kathryn Cramer +5
Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT reflect profound changes in the field of Artificial Intelligence, achieving a linguistic fluency that is impressively, even shockingly, hu…
Characterizing YouTube and BitChute Content and Mobilizers During U.S. Election Fraud Discussions on Twitter
Matthew C. Childs, Cody Buntain, Milo Z. Trujillo +1
In this study, we characterize the cross-platform mobilization of YouTube and BitChute videos on Twitter during the 2020 U.S. Election fraud discussions. Specifically, we extend th…
The MeLa BitChute Dataset
Milo Trujillo, Maurício Gruppi, Cody Buntain +1
In this paper we present a near-complete dataset of over 3M videos from 61K channels over 2.5 years (June 2019 to December 2021) from the social video hosting platform BitChute, a…
When the Echo Chamber Shatters: Examining the Use of Community-Specific Language Post-Subreddit Ban
Milo Z. Trujillo, Samuel F. Rosenblatt, Guillermo de Anda Jáuregui +4
Community-level bans are a common tool against groups that enable online harassment and harmful speech. Unfortunately, the efficacy of community bans has only been partially studie…
The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative
Milo Z. Trujillo, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, James Bagrow
GitHub has become the central online platform for much of open source, hosting most open source code repositories. With this popularity, the public digital traces of GitHub are now…
Which contributions count? Analysis of attribution in open source
Jean-Gabriel Young, Amanda Casari, Katie McLaughlin +3
Open source software projects usually acknowledge contributions with text files, websites, and other idiosyncratic methods. These data sources are hard to mine, which is why contri…
What is BitChute? Characterizing the "Free Speech" Alternative to YouTube
Milo Trujillo, Maurício Gruppi, Cody Buntain +1
In this paper, we characterize the content and discourse on BitChute, a social video-hosting platform. Launched in 2017 as an alternative to YouTube, BitChute joins an ecosystem of…