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Beyond Effectiveness: A Multi-Criteria Framework for Comparing Practical Socio-Technical Interventions
Catherine King, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Designers and policymakers in sociotechnical domains like content moderation, privacy interfaces, recommender systems and beyond, must choose among a growing menu of proposed inter…
Modeling Social Dynamics with an LLM-Enabled Agent Based Network-Dynamic (LAND) Model
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Social dynamics encode the process in which individual network and discourse interactions aggregate into collective influence, narrative dominance and coordinate behavior. This pap…
User-Reported Misinformation Exposure Across Social Media Platforms
Catherine King, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
The paper surveys U.S. users about how often they think they encounter misinformation on different social media platforms and finds exposure varies by platform and is only loosely…
The Structural Influence of Low-Credibility Narratives During the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Wenqi Zhou, Kathleen M. Carley
This work examines the structural influence of low-credibility narratives and the comparative role of automated accounts (bots) versus human users on social media platforms. To mor…
Automated versus Human Engagement: Mapping Cognitive Bias Triggers in Online Discourse
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Wenqi Zhou, Kathleen M. Carley
In the digital environment, human attention is frequently guided by cognitive heuristics rather than deliberate evaluation. Since low-credibility narratives often lack substantive…
FATe of Bots: Ethical Considerations of Social Bot Detection
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Ethan Pan, Michael Miller Yoder +1
A growing suite of research illustrates the negative impact of social media bots in amplifying harmful information with widespread social implications. Social bot detection algorit…