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AI for Trustworthiness! Credible User Identification on Social Web for Disaster Response Agencies
Rahul Pandey, Hemant Purohit, Jennifer Chan +1
Although social media provides a vibrant platform to discuss real-world events, the quantity of information generated can overwhelm decision making based on that information. By be…
Distributional Semantics Approach to Detect Intent in Twitter Conversations on Sexual Assaults
Rahul Pandey, Hemant Purohit, Bonnie Stabile +1
The recent surge in women reporting sexual assault and harassment (e.g., #metoo campaign) has highlighted a longstanding societal crisis. This injustice is partly due to a culture…
Ranking of Social Media Alerts with Workload Bounds in Emergency Operation Centers
Hemant Purohit, Carlos Castillo, Muhammad Imran +1
Extensive research on social media usage during emergencies has shown its value to provide life-saving information, if a mechanism is in place to filter and prioritize messages. Ex…
#ILookLikeAnEngineer: Using Social Media Based Hashtag Activism Campaigns as a Lens to Better Understand Engineering Diversity Issues
Aqdas Malik, Aditya Johri, Rajat Handa +2
Each year, significant investment of time and resources is made to improve diversity within engineering across a range of federal and state agencies, private/not-for-profit organiz…
Real-Time Inference of User Types to Assist with More Inclusive Social Media Activism Campaigns
Habib Karbasian, Hemant Purohit, Rajat Handa +2
Social media provides a mechanism for people to engage with social causes across a range of issues. It also provides a strategic tool to those looking to advance a cause to exchang…
How Diverse Users and Activities Trigger Connective Action via Social Media: Lessons from the Twitter Hashtag Campaign #ILookLikeAnEngineer
Aditya Johri, Habib Karbasian, Aqdas Malik +2
We present a study that examines how a social media activism campaign aimed at improving gender diversity within engineering gained and maintained momentum in its early period. We…