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Sima AIunty: Caste Audit in LLM-Driven Matchmaking
Atharva Naik, Shounok Kar, Varnika Sharma +2
Social and personal decisions in relational domains such as matchmaking are deeply entwined with cultural norms and historical hierarchies, and can potentially be shaped by algorit…
Personal Narratives Empower Politically Disinclined Individuals to Engage in Political Discussions
Tejasvi Chebrolu, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Ashwin Rajadesingan
Engaging in political discussions is crucial in democratic societies, yet many individuals remain politically disinclined due to various factors such as perceived knowledge gaps, c…
Promoting Constructive Deliberation: Reframing for Receptiveness
Gauri Kambhatla, Matthew Lease, Ashwin Rajadesingan
To promote constructive discussion of controversial topics online, we propose automatic reframing of disagreeing responses to signal receptiveness to a preceding comment. Drawing o…
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…
'Walking Into a Fire Hoping You Don't Catch': Strategies and Designs to Facilitate Cross-Partisan Online Discussions
Ashwin Rajadesingan, Carolyn Duran, Paul Resnick +1
While cross-partisan conversations are central to a vibrant democracy, these are hard conversations to have, especially in the United States amidst unprecedented levels of partisan…
Political Discussion is Abundant in Non-political Subreddits (and Less Toxic)
Ashwin Rajadesingan, Ceren Budak, Paul Resnick
Research on online political communication has primarily focused on content in explicitly political spaces. In this work, we set out to determine the amount of political talk misse…