
Paper Session 1: Politics and Ideology
Sunday, 30th April, 11:00 – 12:30
Session Chair: Francesco Pierri
- Political Honeymoon Effect on Social Media: Characterizing Social Media Reaction to the Changes of Prime Minister in Japan. Kunihiro Miyazaki, Taichi Murayama, Akira Matsui, Masaru Nishikawa, Takayuki Uchiba, Haewoon Kwak and Jisun An
- Political advertisement on Facebook and Instagram in the run-up to 2022 Italian general election. Francesco Pierri
- Wearing Masks Implies Refuting Trump?: Towards Target-specific User Stance Prediction across Events in COVID-19 and US Election 2020. Hong Zhang, Haewoon Kwak, Wei Gao and Jisun An
- Analyzing Polarization And Toxicity On Political Debate In Brazilian TikTok Videos Transcriptions. Paulo Henrique Santos Vasconcellos, Humberto Torres Marques-Neto and Pedro Diógenes de Almeida Lara
- Beyond Fish and Bicycles: Exploring the Varieties of Online Women’s Ideological Spaces. Utkucan Balcı, Chen Ling, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Megan Squire, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn
- One of Many: Assessing User-level Effects of Moderation Interventions on r/The_Donald. Amaury Trujillo and Stefano Cresci
Paper Session 2: Language and Emotions
Sunday, 30th April, 13:30 – 15:00
Session Chair: Tingting Liu
- Multi-emotion Recognition Using Multi-EmoBERT and Emotion Analysis in Fake News. Jinfen Li and Lu Xiao
- Geolocated Social Media Posts are Happier: Understanding the Characteristics of Check-in Posts on Twitter. Julie Jiang, Jesse Thomason, Francesco Barbieri and Emilio Ferrara
- On the Prevalence of Leichte Sprache on the German Web. Hadi Asghari, Freya Hewett and Theresa Züger
- Language on Reddit Reveals Differential Mental Health Markers for Individuals posting in Immigration Communities. Juhi Mittal, Abha Belorkar, Vinit Jakhetiya, Venu Pokuri and Sharath Chandra Guntuku
- Analyzing Social Media Activities at Bellingcat. Dominik Bär, Fausto Calderon, Michael Lawlor, Sophia Licklederer, Manuel Totzauer and Stefan Feuerriegel
- Detecting Symptoms of Depression on Reddit. Tingting Liu, Devansh Jain, Shivani Rapole, Brenda Curtis, Johannes C. Eichstaedt, Lyle H. Ungar and Sharath Chandra Guntuku
Paper Session 3: Online Communities and Digital Analytics
Sunday, 30th April, 15:15 – 16:45
Session Chair: Cathy Marshall
- Popular, but hardly used: Has Google Analytics been to the detriment of Web Analytics? Tom Alby
- What Makes Some Workplaces More Favorable to Remote Work? Unpacking Employee Experiences During COVID-19 Via Glassdoor. Mohit Chandra and Munmun De Choudhury
- What Web Search Behaviors Lead to Online Purchase Satisfaction? Yuki Yanagida, Makoto P. Kato, Yuka Kawada, Takehiro Yamamoto, Hiroaki Ohshima and Sumio Fujita
- Who Broke Amazon Mechanical Turk? Catherine C Marshall and Frank Shipman
- Follow Us and Become Famous! Insights and Guidelines From Instagram Engagement Mechanisms. Pier Paolo Tricomi, Marco Chilese, Mauro Conti and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
- Link Topics from Q&A Platforms using Wikidata: A Tool for Cross-platform Hierarchical Classification. Alyssa Sha, Bernado Nunes and Armin Haller
Paper Session 4: Fairness and Bias
Monday, 1st May, 11:00 – 12:30
Session Chair: Harith Alani
- Tracking Machine Learning Bias Creep in Traditional and Online Lending Systems with Covariance Analysis. Ángel Pavón Pérez, Miriam Fernandez, Hasan Al-Madfai, Gregoire Burel and Harith Alani
- The Impact of Data Persistence Bias on Social Media Studies. Tuğrulcan Elmas
- Diversity matters: Robustness of bias measurements in Wikidata. Paramita Das, Sai Keerthana Karnam, Anirban Panda, Bhanu Prakash Reddy Guda, Soumya Sarkar and Animesh Mukherjee
- Fair Link Prediction with Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms. Weixiang Wang and Sucheta Soundarajan
- Monitoring Gender Gaps via Linkedin Advertising Estimates: the case study of Italy. Margherita Berte, Kyriaki Kalimeri and Daniela Paolotti
- Qbias – A Dataset on Media Bias in Search Queries and Query Suggestions. Fabian Haak and Philipp Schaer
Paper Session 5: Harmful and Problematic Behaviour
Monday, 1st May, 13:30 – 15:00
Session Chair: Giuseppe Russo
- Transfer Learning for Multilingual Abusive Meme Detection. Mithun Das and Animesh Mukherjee
- Understanding Online Migration Decisions Following the Banning of Radical Communities. Giuseppe Russo, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Giona Casiraghi and Luca Verginer
- Social Media as a Vector for Escort Ads: A Study on OnlyFans advertisements on Twitter. Maricarmen Arenas, Pratheeksha Nair, Reihaneh Rabbany and Golnoosh Farnadi
- Understanding Misogynoir: A study of Annotators’ Perspectives. Joseph Kwarteng, Gregoire Burel, Aisling Third, Tracie Farrell and Miriam Fernandez
- From Yellow Peril to Model Minority: Asian stereotypes in social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. Xinyu Wang, Maggie Wu and Sarah Rajtmajer
- A longitudinal study of the top 1% toxic Twitter profiles. Hina Qayyum, Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao, Ian Wood, Muhammad Ikram, Nicolas Kourtellis and Mohamad Ali Kaafar
Paper Session 6: Misinformation and Misperception
Monday, 1st May, 15:15 – 16:45
Session Chair: Luca Luceri
- Propaganda and misinformation on Facebook and Twitter during Russian invasion of Ukraine. Francesco Pierri, Luca Luceri, Nikhil Jindal and Emilio Ferrara
- On the Globalization of the QAnon Conspiracy Theory Through Telegram. Mohamad Hoseini, Philipe Melo, Fabricio Benevenuto, Anja Feldmann and Savvas Zannettou
- Characterizing and Predicting Social Correction on Twitter. Yingchen Ma, Bing He, Nathan Subrahmanian and Srijan Kumar
- Emotional Framing in the Spreading of False and True Claims. Akram Sadat Hosseini and Steffen Staab
- Misinformation Detection Algorithms and Fairness across Political Ideologies: The Impact of Article Level Labeling. Jinkyung Park, Rahul Dev Ellezhuthil, Joseph Isaac, Christoph Mergerson, Lauren Feldman and Vivek Singh
- Understanding the Use of e-Prints on Reddit and 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Board. Satrio Yudhoatmojo, Emiliano De Cristofaro and Jeremy Blackburn