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AI summaries in online search influence users' attitudes
Yiwei Xu, Saloni Dash, Sungha Kang +2
This study examined how AI-generated summaries, which have become visually prominent in online search results, affect how users think about different issues. In a preregistered ran…
Rabble-Rousers in the New King's Court: Algorithmic Effects on Account Visibility in Pre-X Twitter
Alexandros Efstratiou, Kayla Duskin, Kate Starbird +1
Algorithmic effects on social media platforms have come under recent scrutiny, with several studies reporting that right-leaning accounts tend to receive more exposure. In this pap…
The Role of Follow Networks and Twitter's Content Recommender on Partisan Skew and Rumor Exposure during the 2022 U.S. Midterm Election
Kayla Duskin, Joseph S. Schafer, Alexandros Efstratiou +2
Social media platforms shape users' experiences through the algorithmic systems they deploy. In this study, we examine to what extent Twitter's content recommender, in conjunction…
Persona-Assigned Large Language Models Exhibit Human-Like Motivated Reasoning
Saloni Dash, Amélie Reymond, Emma S. Spiro +1
Reasoning in humans is prone to biases due to underlying motivations like identity protection, that undermine rational decision-making and judgment. This \textit{motivated reasonin…
ElectionRumors2022: A Dataset of Election Rumors on Twitter During the 2022 US Midterms
Joseph S Schafer, Kayla Duskin, Stephen Prochaska +7
Understanding the spread of online rumors is a pressing societal challenge and an active area of research across domains. In the context of the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, one inf…
Echo Chambers in the Age of Algorithms: An Audit of Twitter's Friend Recommender System
Kayla Duskin, Joseph S. Schafer, Jevin D. West +1
The presence of political misinformation and ideological echo chambers on social media platforms is concerning given the important role that these sites play in the public's exposu…
Followback Clusters, Satellite Audiences, and Bridge Nodes: Coengagement Networks for the 2020 US Election
Andrew Beers, Joseph S. Schafer, Ian Kennedy +3
The 2020 United States presidential election was, and has continued to be, the focus of pervasive and persistent mis- and disinformation spreading through our media ecosystems, inc…
Redrawing the 'Color Line': Examining Racial Segregation in Associative Networks on Twitter
Nina Cesare, Hedwig Lee, Tyler McCormick +1
Online social spaces are increasingly salient contexts for associative tie formation. However, the racial composition of associative networks within most of these spaces has yet to…
Networks of Gratitude: Structures of Thanks and User Expectations in Workplace Appreciation Systems
Emma S. Spiro, J. Nathan Matias, Andrés Monroy-Hernández
Appreciation systems--platforms for users to exchange thanks and praise--are becoming common in the workplace, where employees share appreciation, managers are notified, and aggreg…
Is Anyone Out There? Unpacking Q&A Hashtags on Twitter
Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski, Emma S. Spiro, Jorge Nathan Matias +2
In addition to posting news and status updates, many Twitter users post questions that seek various types of subjective and objective information. These questions are often labeled…