4 papers
The Body as Status: Muscularity, Engagement, and Body Image Risk on #GymTok
Magdalayna Curry, Minh Duc Chu, Changhao Yan +3
Body image concerns among boys and young men are increasingly oriented toward muscularity, with social media serving as a central context for communicating and evaluating these ide…
Who, Why, and How: Disentangling the Effects of Moderation Source, Context, and Language on Post-Removal Behavior
Siyi Zhou, Lindsay Young, Marlon Twyman +1
Content moderation is a central mechanism through which platforms attempt to balance user engagement with community governance. Yet existing research has largely treated moderation…
Overstating Attitudes, Ignoring Networks: LLM Biases in Simulating Misinformation Susceptibility
Eun Cheol Choi, Lindsay E. Young, Emilio Ferrara
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as proxies for human judgment in computational social science, yet their ability to reproduce patterns of susceptibility to misin…
BigTokDetect: A Clinically-Informed Vision-Language Modeling Framework for Detecting Pro-Bigorexia Videos on TikTok
Minh Duc Chu, Kshitij Pawar, Zihao He +7
Social media platforms face escalating challenges in detecting harmful content that promotes muscle dysmorphic behaviors and cognitions (bigorexia). This content can evade moderati…