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Echoes in the Algorithm: Analyzing the Fidelity of User Preferences Against Realized Platform Reach
Emelia Hughes, Tim Weninger
What does popular content look like when platforms withhold the usual cues? On TikTok, users still form impressions about which videos are taking off even when likes and view count…
Ephemeral Feeds and Enduring Rituals: RushTok and the Formation of Event-Based Algorithmic Communities
Emelia Hughes, Tim Weninger
Each August, TikTok's For You page turns the University of Alabama's sorority recruitment into RushTok. We examine RushTok as an event-based algorithmic community: a collective ass…
Deception and Communication in Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems: An Experimental Study with Among Us
Maria Milkowski, Tim Weninger
As large language models are deployed as autonomous agents, their capacity for strategic deception raises core questions for coordination, reliability, and safety in multi-goal, mu…
Evaluating LLMs as Human Surrogates in Controlled Experiments
Adnan Hoq, Tim Weninger
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate human responses in behavioral research, yet it remains unclear when LLM-generated data support the same experimental…
Simulating Teams with LLM Agents: Interactive 2D Environments for Studying Human-AI Dynamics
Mohammed Almutairi, Charles Chiang, Haoze Guo +9
Enabling users to create their own simulations offers a powerful way to study team dynamics and performance. We introduce VirTLab, a system that allows researchers and practitioner…
Echo Chambers and Information Brokers on Truth Social: A Study of Network Dynamics and Political Discourse
Emelia May Hughes, Tim Weninger
This study examines the structural dynamics of Truth Social, a politically aligned social media platform, during two major political events: the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of…
VirtLab: An AI-Powered System for Flexible, Customizable, and Large-scale Team Simulations
Mohammed Almutairi, Charles Chiang, Haoze Guo +9
Simulating how team members collaborate within complex environments using Agentic AI is a promising approach to explore hypotheses grounded in social science theories and study tea…
Fear and Loathing on the Frontline: Decoding the Language of Othering by Russia-Ukraine War Bloggers
Patrick Gerard, William Theisen, Tim Weninger +1
Othering, the act of portraying outgroups as fundamentally different from the ingroup, often escalates into framing them as existential threats--fueling intergroup conflict and jus…
Modeling Information Narrative Detection and Evolution on Telegram during the Russia-Ukraine War
Patrick Gerard, Svitlana Volkova, Louis Penafiel +2
Following the Russian Federation's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a multitude of information narratives emerged within both pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian communit…
TK-KNN: A Balanced Distance-Based Pseudo Labeling Approach for Semi-Supervised Intent Classification
Nicholas Botzer, David Vasquez, Tim Weninger +1
The ability to detect intent in dialogue systems has become increasingly important in modern technology. These systems often generate a large amount of unlabeled data, and manually…