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From an Authentication Question to a Public Social Event: Characterizing Birthday Sharing on Twitter
Dilara Keküllüoğlu, Walid Magdy, Kami Vaniea
Date of birth (DOB) has historically been considered as private information and safe to use for authentication, but recent years have seen a shift towards wide public sharing. In t…
Identity Signals in Emoji Do not Influence Perception of Factual Truth on Twitter
Alexander Robertson, Walid Magdy, Sharon Goldwater
Prior work has shown that Twitter users use skin-toned emoji as an act of self-representation to express their racial/ethnic identity. We test whether this signal of identity can i…
Black or White but never neutral: How readers perceive identity from yellow or skin-toned emoji
Alexander Robertson, Walid Magdy, Sharon Goldwater
Research in sociology and linguistics shows that people use language not only to express their own identity but to understand the identity of others. Recent work established a conn…
Holy Tweets: Exploring the Sharing of Quran on Twitter
Norah Abokhodair, Abdelrahim Elmadany, Walid Magdy
While social media offer users a platform for self-expression, identity exploration, and community management, among other functions, they also offer space for religious practice a…
Examining the Role of Mood Patterns in Predicting Self-Reported Depressive symptoms
Lucia Lushi Chen, Walid Magdy, Heather Whalley +1
Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Initial efforts to detect depression signals from social media posts have shown promising results. Given the high internal…
Stance Detection on Social Media: State of the Art and Trends
Abeer AlDayel, Walid Magdy
Stance detection on social media is an emerging opinion mining paradigm for various social and political applications in which sentiment analysis may be sub-optimal. There has been…