4 papers
Understanding Lexical Biases when Identifying Gang-related Social Media Communications
Dhiraj Murthy, Constantine Caramanis, Koustav Rudra
Individuals involved in gang-related activity use mainstream social media including Facebook and Twitter to express taunts and threats as well as grief and memorializing. However,…
Social Media COVID-19 Contact Tracing Using Mobile Social Payments and Facebook Data
Shrivu Shankar, Dhiraj Murthy, Hassan Dashtian
Many in the US were reluctant to report their COVID-19 cases at the height of the pandemic (e.g., for fear of missing work or other obligations due to quarantine mandates). Other m…
Predicting Gender and Political Affiliation Using Mobile Payment Data
Ben Stobaugh, Dhiraj Murthy
We explore the understudied area of social payments to evaluate whether or not we can predict the gender and political affiliation of Venmo users based on the content of their Venm…
Visualizing Collective Discursive User Interactions in Online Life Science Communities
Dhiraj Murthy, Alexander Gross, Stephanie Bond
This paper highlights the rationale for the development of BioViz, a tool to help visualize the existence of collective user interactions in online life science communities. The fi…