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Competing for a Finite Pool of Attention in Social Media? How a New Geopolitical Conflict Reshapes Engagement in Bluesky
Kamand Kalashi, Arash Badie-Modiri, Ali Salloum +3
Major geopolitical crises can rapidly reshape online public attention. Yet population-level increases in discussion volume about a new crisis reveal little about how users accommod…
Opting Out of Generative AI: a Behavioral Experiment on the Role of Education in Perplexity AI Avoidance
Roberto Ulloa, Juhi Kulshrestha, Celina Kacperski
The rise of conversational AI (CAI), powered by large language models, is transforming how individuals access and interact with digital information. However, these tools may inadve…
Self-directed online information search can affect policy support: a randomized encouragement design with digital behavioral data
Celina Kacperski, Roberto Ulloa, Peter Selb +3
As citizens increasingly encounter political information in digital environments, understanding whether this engagement shapes their policy views has become a central concern. Draw…
Browsing behavior exposes identities on the Web
Marcos Oliveira, Junran Yang, Daniel Griffiths +2
How easy is it to uniquely identify a person based solely on their web browsing behavior? Here we show that when people navigate the Web, their online traces produce fingerprints t…
Characteristics of ChatGPT users from Germany: implications for the digital divide from web tracking data
Celina Kacperski, Denis Bonnay, Juhi Kulshrestha +3
A major challenge of our time is reducing disparities in access to and effective use of digital technologies, with recent discussions highlighting the role of AI in exacerbating th…
Novelty in news search: a longitudinal study of the 2020 US elections
Roberto Ulloa, Mykola Makhortykh, Aleksandra Urman +1
The 2020 US elections news coverage was extensive, with new pieces of information generated rapidly. This evolving scenario presented an opportunity to study the performance of sea…
A Domain-adaptive Pre-training Approach for Language Bias Detection in News
Jan-David Krieger, Timo Spinde, Terry Ruas +2
Media bias is a multi-faceted construct influencing individual behavior and collective decision-making. Slanted news reporting is the result of one-sided and polarized writing whic…
Where the Earth is flat and 9/11 is an inside job: A comparative algorithm audit of conspiratorial information in web search results
Aleksandra Urman, Mykola Makhortykh, Roberto Ulloa +1
Web search engines are important online information intermediaries that are frequently used and highly trusted by the public despite multiple evidence of their outputs being subjec…
Misinformation, Believability, and Vaccine Acceptance Over 40 Countries: Takeaways From the Initial Phase of The COVID-19 Infodemic
Karandeep Singh, Gabriel Lima, Meeyoung Cha +4
The COVID-19 pandemic has been damaging to the lives of people all around the world. Accompanied by the pandemic is an infodemic, an abundant and uncontrolled spreading of potentia…
Web Routineness and Limits of Predictability: Investigating Demographic and Behavioral Differences Using Web Tracking Data
Juhi Kulshrestha, Marcos Oliveira, Orkut Karacalik +2
Understanding human activities and movements on the Web is not only important for computational social scientists but can also offer valuable guidance for the design of online syst…
Characterizing Information Diets of Social Media Users
Juhi Kulshrestha, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Lisette Espin-Noboa +2
With the widespread adoption of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, there has been a shift in the way information is produced and consumed. Earlier, the only producers of…
Quantifying Search Bias: Investigating Sources of Bias for Political Searches in Social Media
Juhi Kulshrestha, Motahhare Eslami, Johnnatan Messias +4
Search systems in online social media sites are frequently used to find information about ongoing events and people. For topics with multiple competing perspectives, such as politi…
The Road to Popularity: The Dilution of Growing Audience on Twitter
Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz, Mahmoudreza Babaei, Juhi Kulshrestha +1
On social media platforms, like Twitter, users are often interested in gaining more influence and popularity by growing their set of followers, aka their audience. Several studies…