4 papers
Assessing How Hate, Counterspeech, and Toxicity Affect Hate Group Newcomers
Daniel Hickey, Matheus Schmitz, Daniel M. T. Fessler +4
Counterspeech has gained attention as a strategy to reduce hate speech on social media. Although previous studies suggest that counterspeech can reduce hate speech, little is known…
Posts of Peril: Detecting Information About Hazards in Text
Keith Burghardt, Daniel M. T. Fessler, Chyna Tang +2
Socio-linguistic indicators of affectively-relevant phenomena, such as emotion or sentiment, are often extracted from text to better understand features of human-computer interacti…
Universal Patterns in the Long-term Growth of Urban Infrastructure in U.S. Cities from 1900 to 2015
Keith Burghardt, Johannes H. Uhl, Kristina Lerman +1
Despite the rapid growth of cities in the past century, our quantitative, in-depth understanding of how cities grow remains limited due to a consistent lack of historical data. Thu…
The Peripatetic Hater: Predicting Movement Among Hate Subreddits
Daniel Hickey, Daniel M. T. Fessler, Kristina Lerman +1
Many online hate groups exist to disparage others based on race, gender identity, sex, or other characteristics. The accessibility of these communities allows users to join multipl…