6 papers
Red Flags and Cherry Picking: Reading The Scientific Blackpill Wiki
Celia Chen, Alex Leitch, Scotty Beland +6
Incels are an online community of men who share a belief in extreme misogyny, the glorification of violence, and biological essentialism. They refer to their core ideology as "The…
In Bad Faith: Assessing Discussion Quality on Social Media
Celia Chen, Alex Leitch, William Jordan Conway +9
The quality of a user's social media experience is determined both by the content they see and by the quality of the conversation and interaction around it. In this paper, we look…
"Why I Took the Blackpill": A Thematic Analysis of the Radicalization Process in Incel Communities
Jennifer Golbeck, Celia Chen, Alex Leitch
Incels, or "involuntary celibates", are an extreme, misogynistic hate group that exists entirely online. Members of the community have been linked to acts of offline violence, incl…
Unlimited Editions: Documenting Human Style in AI Art Generation
Alex Leitch, Celia Chen
As AI art generation becomes increasingly sophisticated, HCI research has focused primarily on questions of detection, authenticity, and automation. This paper argues that such app…
Cross-Platform Violence Detection on Social Media: A Dataset and Analysis
Celia Chen, Scotty Beland, Ingo Burghardt +19
Violent threats remain a significant problem across social media platforms. Useful, high-quality data facilitates research into the understanding and detection of malicious content…
Evaluating Machine Expertise: How Graduate Students Develop Frameworks for Assessing GenAI Content
Celia Chen, Alex Leitch
This paper examines how graduate students develop frameworks for evaluating machine-generated expertise in web-based interactions with large language models (LLMs). Through a quali…