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Ketto and the Science of Giving: A Data-Driven Investigation of Crowdfunding for India
Karuna Chandra, Akshay Menon, Lydia Manikonda +1
The main goal of this paper is to investigate an up and coming crowdfunding platform used to raise funds for social causes in India called Ketto. Despite the growing usage of this…
Topo Goes Political: TDA-Based Controversy Detection in Imbalanced Reddit Political Data
Arvindh Arun, Karuna K Chandra, Akshit Sinha +4
The detection of controversial content in political discussions on the Internet is a critical challenge in maintaining healthy digital discourse. Unlike much of the existing litera…
X-posing Free Speech: Examining the Impact of Moderation Relaxation on Online Social Networks
Arvindh Arun, Saurav Chhatani, Jisun An +1
We investigate the impact of free speech and the relaxation of moderation on online social media platforms using Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter as a case study. By curating a data…
Tight Sampling in Unbounded Networks
Kshitijaa Jaglan, Meher Chaitanya, Triansh Sharma +4
The default approach to deal with the enormous size and limited accessibility of many Web and social media networks is to sample one or more subnetworks from a conceptually unbound…
Framing the Fray: Evaluating Conflict Frames in Indian Election News Coverage
Tejasvi Chebrolu, Rohan Chowdary, N Harsha Vardhan +2
In covering elections, journalists often use conflict frames which depict events and issues as adversarial, often highlighting confrontations between opposing parties. Although con…
TweetBoost: Influence of Social Media on NFT Valuation
Arnav Kapoor, Dipanwita Guhathakurta, Mehul Mathur +3
NFT or Non-Fungible Token is a token that certifies a digital asset to be unique. A wide range of assets including, digital art, music, tweets, memes, are being sold as NFTs. NFT-r…