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Analyzing Patterns and Influence of Advertising in Print Newspapers
N Harsha Vardhan, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Kiran Garimella
This paper investigates advertising practices in print newspapers across India using a novel data-driven approach. We develop a pipeline employing image processing and OCR techniqu…
Sometimes the Model doth Preach: Quantifying Religious Bias in Open LLMs through Demographic Analysis in Asian Nations
Hari Shankar, Vedanta S P, Tejas Cavale +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of generating opinions and propagating bias unknowingly, originating from unrepresentative and non-diverse data collection. Prior research…
Erasing Labor with Labor: Dark Patterns and Lockstep Behaviors on Google Play
Ashwin Singh, Arvindh Arun, Ayushi Jain +4
Google Play's policy forbids the use of incentivized installs, ratings, and reviews to manipulate the placement of apps. However, there still exist apps that incentivize installs f…
Co-WIN: Really Winning? Analysing Inequity in India's Vaccination Response
Tanvi Karandikar, Avinash Prabhu, Mehul Mathur +3
The COVID-19 pandemic has so far accounted for reported 5.5M deaths worldwide, with 8.7% of these coming from India. The pandemic exacerbated the weakness of the Indian healthcare…
Diagnosing Data from ICTs to Provide Focused Assistance in Agricultural Adoptions
Ashwin Singh, Mallika Subramanian, Anmol Agarwal +8
In the last two decades, ICTs have played a pivotal role in empowering rural populations in India by making knowledge more accessible. Digital Green (DG) is one such ICT that emplo…
Capitol (Pat)riots: A comparative study of Twitter and Parler
Hitkul, Avinash Prabhu, Dipanwita Guhathakurta +9
On 6 January 2021, a mob of right-wing conservatives stormed the USA Capitol Hill interrupting the session of congress certifying 2020 Presidential election results. Immediately af…