3 papers
cs.IR2026
How Does Empowering Users with Greater System Control Affect News Filter Bubbles?
Ping Liu, Karthik Shivaram, Aron Culotta +2
While recommendation systems enable users to find articles of interest, they can also create ``filter bubbles'' by presenting content that reinforces users' pre-existing beliefs. U…
cs.SI2026
Forecasting Political News Engagement on Social Media
Karthik Shivaram, Mustafa Bilgic, Matthew Shapiro +1
Understanding how political news consumption changes over time can provide insights into issues such as hyperpartisanship, filter bubbles, and misinformation. To investigate long-t…
cs.SI2026
Characterizing Online Criticism of Partisan News Media Using Weakly Supervised Learning
Karthik Shivaram, Mustafa Bilgic, Matthew Shapiro +1
We propose novel methods to identify tweets that criticize partisan news sources. Prior work suggests that criticism, ridicule, and distrust of news media all play important roles…