Full Papers:
Market Forces: Quantifying the Role of Top Credible Ad Servers in the Fake News Ecosystem
Lia Bozarth, Ceren Budak
Uncovering Coordinated Networks on Social Media: Methods and Case Studies
Diogo Pacheco, Pik-Mai Hui, Christopher Torres-Lugo, Bao Tran Truong, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
Context-Based Quotation Recommendation
Ansel MacLaughlin, Tao Chen, Burcu Karagol Ayan, Dan Roth
Posting Bot Detection on Blockchain-based Social Media Platform using Machine Learning Techniques
Taehyun Kim, Hyomin Shin, Hyung Ju Hwang, Seungwon Jeong
The Effect of Moderation on Online Mental Health Conversations
David Wadden, Tal August, Qisheng Li, Tim Althoff
Learning to Classify Morals and Conventions: Artificial Intelligence in Terms of the Economics of Convention
David Solans, Christopher Tauchmann, Aideen Farrell, Karolin Kappler, Hans-Hendrik Huber, Carlos Castillo, Kristian Kersting
Web Routineness and Limits of Predictability: Investigating Demographic and Behavioral Differences Using Web Tracking Data
Juhi Kulshrestha, Marcos Oliveira, Orkut Karaçalık, Denis Bonnay, Claudia Wagner
Group Link Prediction Using Conditional Variational Autoencoder
Hao Sha, Mohammad Al Hasan, George Mohler
Automatic Discovery of Political Meme Genres with Diverse Appearances
William Theisen, Joel Brogan, Pamela Bilo Thomas, Daniel Moreira, Pascal Phoa, Tim Weninger, Walter Scheirer
Textual Analysis and Timely Detection of Suspended Social Media Accounts
Dominic Seyler, Shulong Tan, Dingcheng Li, Jingyuan Zhang, Ping Li
Multilayer Graph Association Rules for Link Prediction
Michele Coscia, Michael Szell
Perceptions of Retrospective Edits, Changes, and Deletion on Social Media
Günce Su Yılmaz, Fiona Gasaway, Blase Ur, Mainack Mondal
X-Posts Explained: Analyzing and Predicting Controversial Contributions in Thematically Diverse Reddit Forums
Anna Guimarães, Gerhard Weikum
Assessing Media Bias in Cross-Linguistic and Cross-National Populations
Allan Sales, Albin Zehe, Leandro Balby Marinho, Adriano Veloso, Andreas Hotho, Janna Omeliyanenko
No Walk in the Park: The Viability and Fairness of Social Media Analysis for Parks and Recreational Policy Making
Afra Mashhadi, Samantha G. Winder, Emilia H. Lia, Spencer A. Wood
Discovering and Categorising Language Biases in Reddit
Xavier Ferrer, Tom van Nuenen, Jose M. Such, Natalia Criado
"Call me sexist, but..." : Revisiting Sexism Detection Using Psychological Scales and Adversarial Samples
Mattia Samory, Indira Sen, Julian Kohne, Fabian Flöck, Claudia Wagner
How-to Present News on Social Media: A Causal Analysis of Editing News Headlines for Boosting User Engagement
Kunwoo Park, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Sanjay Chawla
Variation in Situational Awareness Information due to Selection of Data Source, Summarization Method, and Method Implementation
M. Janina Sarol, Ly Dinh, Jana Diesner
Cannot Predict Comment Volume of a News Article before (a few) Users Read It
Lihong He, Chen Shen, Arjun Mukherjee, Slobodan Vucetic, Eduard Dragut
The Evolution of the Manosphere across the Web
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Jeremy Blackburn, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Summer Long, Stephanie Greenberg, Savvas Zannettou
Identifying Misinformation from Website Screenshots
Sara Abdali, Rutuja Gurav, Siddharth Menon, Daniel Fonseca, Negin Entezari, Neil Shah, Evangelos E. Papalexakis
Political Depolarization of News Articles Using Attribute-Aware Word Embeddings
Ruibo Liu, Lili Wang, Chenyan Jia, Soroush Vosoughi
MILE: A Multi-Level Framework for Scalable Graph Embedding
Jiongqian Liang, Saket Gurukar, Srinivasan Parthasarathy
Network Inference from a Mixture of Diffusion Models for Fake News Mitigation
Karishma Sharma, Xinran He, Sungyong Seo, Yan Liu
On Predicting Personal Values of Social Media Users using Community-Specific Language Features and Personal Value Correlation
Amila Silva, Pei-Chi Lo, Ee Peng Lim
Embeddings-Based Clustering for Target Specific Stances: The Case of a Polarized Turkey
Ammar Rashed, Mucahid Kutlu, Kareem Darwish, Tamer Elsayed, Cansın Bayrak
Which Node Attribute Prediction Task Are We Solving? Within-Network, Across-Network, or Across-Layer Tasks
Kristen M. Altenburger, Johan Ugander
Discourse Parsing for Contentious, Non-Convergent Online Discussions
Stepan Zakharov, Omri Hadar, Tovit Hakak, Dina Grossman, Yifat Ben-David Kolikant, Oren Tsur
Experience-Driven Peer Effects: Evidence from a Large Natural Experiment
William Cai, Johan Ugander
It's a Thin Line Between Love and Hate: Using the Echo in Modeling Dynamics of Racist Online Communities
Eyal Arviv, Simo Hanouna, Oren Tsur
PopFactor: Live-Streamer Behavior and Popularity
Robert Netzorg, Lauren Arnett, Augustin Chaintreau, Eugene Wu
An Analysis of Replies to Trump's Tweets
Zijian An, Kenneth Joseph
The Healthy States of America: Creating a Health Taxonomy with Social Media
Sanja Šćepanović, Luca Maria Aiello, Ke Zhou, Sagar Joglekar, Daniele Quercia
Understanding the Invitation Acceptance in Agent-initiated Social E-commerce
Fengli Xu, Guozhen Zhang, Yuan Yuan, Hongjia Huang, Diyi Yang, Depeng Jin, Yong Li
Expertise and Dynamics within Crowdsourced Musical Knowledge Curation: A Case Study of the Genius Platform
Derek Lim, Austin R. Benson
Fair Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Information Networks
Ziqian Zeng, Rashidul Islam, Kamrun Naher Keya, James Foulds, Yangqiu Song, Shimei Pan
Deception Detection in Group Video Conversations using Dynamic Interaction Networks
Srijan Kumar, Chongyang Bai, Venkatramanan Siva Subrahmanian, Jure Leskovec
Machine Learning Explanations to Prevent Overtrust in Fake News Detection
Sina Mohseni, Fan Yang, Shiva Pentyala, Mengnan Du, Yi Liu, Nic Lupfer, Xia Hu, Shuiwang Ji, Eric Ragan
Social Facilitation Among Gamblers: A Large-Scale Study Using Account-Based Data
Niklas Hopfgartner, Tiago Santos, Michael Auer, Mark Griffiths, Denis Helic
Political Polarization in Online News Consumption
Kiran Garimella, Tim Smith, Rebecca Weiss, Robert West
You Don't Know How I Feel: Insider-Outsider Perspective Gaps in Cyberbullying Risk Detection
Seunghyun Kim, Afsaneh Razi, Gianluca Stringhini, Pamela J. Wisniewski, Munmun De Choudhury
On the Role of Micro-categories to Characterize Event Popularity in Meetup
Ayan Kumar Bhowmick, Soumajit Pramanik, Sayan Pathak, Bivas Mitra
How Medical Crowdfunding Helps People? A Large-scale Case Study on the Waterdrop Fundraising
Junjie Huang, Huawei Shen, Qi Cao, Li Cai, Xueqi Cheng
Sudden Attention Shifts on Wikipedia During the COVID-19 Crisis
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Kristina Gligorić, Maxime Peyrard, Florian Lemmerich, Markus Strohmaier, Robert West
Modeling Collective Anticipation and Response on Wikipedia
Ryota Kobayashi, Patrick Gildersleve, Takeaki Uno, Renaud Lambiotte
Cross-Partisan Discussions on YouTube: Conservatives Talk to Liberals but Liberals Don't Talk to Conservatives
Siqi Wu, Paul Resnick
The Media During the Rise of Trump: Identity Politics, Immigration, "Mexican" Demonization and Hate-Crime
Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, Ethan Zuckerman
Misinformation Adoption or Rejection in the Era of COVID-19
Maxwell Weinzierl, Suellen Hopfer, Sanda M. Harabagiu
Understanding the Diverging User Trajectories in Highly-related Online Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jason Shuo Zhang, Brian Keegan, Qin Lv, Chenhao Tan
Political Bias and Factualness in News Sharing across more than 100,000 Online Communities
Galen Weld, Maria Glenski, Tim Althoff
Measuring Societal Biases from Text Corpora with Smoothed First-Order Co-occurrence
Navid Rekabsaz, Robert West, James Henderson, Allan Hanbury
"I Won the Election!": An Empirical Analysis of Soft Moderation Interventions on Twitter
Savvas Zannettou
CEAM: The Effectiveness of Cyclic and Ephemeral Attention Models of User Behavior on Social Platforms
Farhan Asif Chowdhury, Yozen Liu, Koustuv Saha, Nicholas Vincent, Leonardo Neves, Neil Shah, Maarten W. Bos
Under the Spotlight: Web Tracking in Indian Partisan News Websites
Vibhor Agarwal, Yash Vekaria, Pushkal Agarwal, Sangeeta Mahapatra, Shounak Set, Sakthi Balan Muthiah, Nishanth Sastry, Nicolas Kourtellis
Political Discussion is Abundant in Non-political Subreddits (and Less Toxic)
Ashwin Rajadesingan, Ceren Budak, Paul Resnick
Understanding the Use of Fauxtography on Social Media
Yuping Wang, Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Jeremy Blackburn, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, David Magerman, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini
Representation of music creators on Wikipedia, differences in gender and genre
Alice Wang, Aasish Pappu, Henriette Cramer
Global Gender Differences in Wikipedia Readership
Isaac Johnson, Florian Lemmerich, Diego Sáez-Trumper, Robert West, Markus Strohmaier, Leila Zia
Coordinated Behavior on Social Media in 2019 UK General Election
Leonardo Nizzoli, Serena Tardelli, Marco Avvenuti, Stefano Cresci, Maurizio Tesconi
Partisan Responses to Fact-Checking in Online News Platforms: Evidence from a Political Rumor about the North Korean Leader
TaeYoung Kang, Jaeung Sim
Evaluating Audience Loyalty and Authenticity in Influencer Marketing via Multi-task Multi-relational Learning
Seungbae Kim, Xiusi Chen, Jyun-Yu Jiang, Jinyoung Han, Wei Wang
An Embedding-based Joint Sentiment-Topic Model for Short Texts
Ayan Sengupta, William Scott Paka, Suman Roy, Gaurav Ranjan, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Towards Emotion- and Time-Aware Classification of Tweets to Assist Human Moderation for Suicide Prevention
Ramit Sawhney, Harshit Joshi, Alicia Nobles, Rajiv Ratn Shah
User Identity Linkage for Different Behavioral Patterns across Domains
Genki Kusano, Masafumi Oyamada
RAFFMAN: Measuring and Analyzing Sentiment in Online Political Forum Discussions with an Application to the Trump Impeachment
Jakapun Tachaiya, Joobin Gharibshah, Kevin E. Esterling, Michalis Faloutsos
More than meets the tie: Examining the Role of Interpersonal Relationships in Social Networks
Minje Choi, Ceren Budak, Daniel M. Romero, David Jurgens
RecTen: A Recursive Hierarchical Low Rank Tensor Factorization Method to Discover Hierarchical Patterns from Multi-modal Data
Risul Islam, Md Omar Faruk Rokon, Evangelos E. Papalexakis, Michalis Faloutsos
On Positive Moderation Decisions
Mattia Samory
Online Communication Shifts in the Midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study on Snapchat
Qi Yang, Weinan Wang, Lucas Pierce, Rajan Vaish, Xiaolin Shi, Neil Shah
Exercise? I thought you said 'Extra Fries': Leveraging Sentence Demarcations and Multi-hop Attention for Meme Affect Analysis
Shraman Pramanick, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Computational Analysis of Bot Activity in the Asia-Pacific: A Comparative Study of Four National Elections
Joshua Uyheng, Kathleen M. Carley
Understanding the Dynamics between Vaping and Cannabis Legalization Using Twitter Opinions
Shishir Adhikari, Akshay Uppal, Robin Mermelstein, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Elena Zheleva
Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia
Chan Young Park, Xinru Yan, Anjalie Field, Yulia Tsvetkov
Analysis of Twitter Users' Lifestyle Choices using Joint Embedding Model
Tunazzina Islam, Dan Goldwasser
Imagine All the People: Characterizing Social Music Sharing on Reddit
Veniamin Veselovsky, Isaac Waller, Ashton Anderson
How Metaphors Impact Political Discourse: A Large-Scale Topic-Agnostic Study Using Neural Metaphor Detection
Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Marek Rei, Ekaterina Shutova
Management responses and gender bias: Evidence from the hotel industry
Davide Proserpio, Isamar Troncoso, Francesca Valsesia
Estimating the impact of Airbnb on the local economy: Evidence from the restaurant industry
Yongseok Kim, Davide Proserpio, Suman Basuroy
Posters:
Studying Moral-based Differences in the Framing of Political Tweets
Markus Reiter-Haas, Simone Kopeinik, Elisabeth Lex
Classifying Reasonability in Retellings of Personal Events Shared on Social Media: A Preliminary Case Study with /r/AmITheAsshole
Ethan Haworth, Ted Grover, Justin Langston, Ankush Patel, Joseph West, Alex C. Williams
Evolution of Retweet Rates in Twitter User Careers: Analysis and Model
Kiran Garimella, Robert West
Risk-aware Regularization for Opinion-based Portfolio Selection
Ting-Wei Hsu, Chung-Chi Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen
A Research Agenda for Financial Opinion Mining
Chung-Chi Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen
American Politicians Diverge Systematically, Indian Politicians do so Chaotically: Text Embeddings as a Window into Party Polarization
Amar Budhiraja, Ankur Sharma, Rahul Agrawal, Monojit Choudhury, Joyojeet Pal
Well-Being Depends on Social Comparison: Hierarchical Models of Twitter Language Suggest That Richer Neighbors Make You Less Happy
Salvatore Giorgi, Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Claire Pajot, H. Andrew Schwartz, Lyle H. Ungar
Datasets:
VoterFraud2020: a Multi-modal Dataset of Election Fraud Claims on Twitter
Anton Abilov, Yiqing Hua, Hana Matatov, Ofra Amir, Mor Naaman
Tracking Knowledge Propagation Across Wikipedia Languages
Rodolfo Vieira Valentim, Giovanni Comarela, Souneil Park, Diego Sáez-Trumper
Check Mate: Prioritizing User Generated Multi-Media Content for Fact-Checking
Tarunima Prabhakar, Anushree Gupta, Kruttika Nadig, Denny George
Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic in Social Media: A Holistic Perspective and a Call to Arms
Firoj Alam, Fahim Dalvi, Shaden Shaar, Nadir Durrani, Hamdy Mubarak, Alex Nikolov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Ahmed Abdelali, Hassan Sajjad, Kareem Darwish, Preslav Nakov
YouNiverse: Large-Scale Channel and Video Metadata from English-Speaking YouTube
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Robert West
CrisisBench: Benchmarking Crisis-related Social Media Datasets for Humanitarian Information Processing
Firoj Alam, Hassan Sajjad, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli
A Dataset of State-Censored Tweets
Tuğrulcan Elmas, Rebekah Overdorf, Karl Aberer
HumAID: Human-Annotated Disaster Incidents Data from Twitter with Deep Learning Benchmarks
Firoj Alam, Umair Qazi, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli
ABOME: A Multi-platform Data Repository of Artificially Boosted Online Media Entities
Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Udit Arora, Tanmoy Chakraborty
CoVaxxy: A Collection of English-Language Twitter Posts About COVID-19 Vaccines
Matthew R. DeVerna, Francesco Pierri, Bao Tran Truong, John Bollenbacher, David Axelrod, Niklas Loynes, Christopher Torres-Lugo, Kai-Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer, John Bryden
What's Your Value of Travel Time? Collecting Traveler-Centered Mobility Data via Crowdsourcing
Cristian Consonni, Silvia Basile, Matteo Manca, Ludovico Boratto, Andrè Freitas, Tatiana Kovacikova, Ghadir Pourhashem, Yannick Cornet
COVID-19 Coverage By Cable and Broadcast Networks
Ceren Budak, Ashley Muddiman, Yujin Kim, Caroline C. Murray, Natalie J. Stroud
A Dataset of Multidimensional and Multilingual Social Opinions for Malta's Annual Government Budget
Keith Cortis, Brian Davis
Memes, Radicalisation, and the Promotion of Violence on Chan Sites
Blyth Crawford, Florence Keen, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
Media Cloud: Massive Open Source Collection of Global News on the Open Web
Hal Roberts, Rahul Bhargava, Linas Valiukas, Dennis Jen, Momin M. Malik, Cindy Sherman Bishop, Emily B. Ndulue, Aashka Dave, Justin Clark, Bruce Etling, Robert Faris, Anushka Shah, Jasmin Rubinovitz, Alexis Hope, Catherine D'Ignazio, Fernando Bermejo, Yochai Benkler, Ethan Zuckerman
A Large Open Dataset from the Parler Social Network
Max Aliapoulios, Emmi Bevensee, Jeremy Blackburn, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou
Demos:
SIGNLENS: A Tool for Analyzing People's Polarization Social Relationship Based on Signed Graph Modeling
Junjie Huang, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng
ESG Tracker: Unbiased and Explainable ESG Profile from Real-time Data
Elaheh Momeni, Constantin Fraenkel, Patrick Kiss, Andreas Burgmann