Conference Program
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
8:45am – 9:00am EST
(Academic Building East 2400)
Conference Opening Remarks
9:00am – 10:30am EST
(Academic Building East 2400)
Session 1: Digital Identity & Social Systems
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- Early Detection of DDoS Attacks via Online Social Networks Analysis
Ines Abbes, Maurantonio Caprolu and Roberto Di Pietro - Social Biases in Knowledge Representations of Wikidata separates Global North from Global South
Paramita Das, Sai Keerthana Karnam, Aditya Soni and Animesh Mukherjee - Unpacking the Dilemma: The Dual Impact of AI Instructors’ Social Presence on Learners’ Perceived Learning and Satisfaction, Mediated by the Uncanny Valley
Xinhui Chen and Dominic DiFranzo - VIKI: Systematic Cross-Platform Profile Inference of Tech Users
Ben Treves, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Yue Dong and Michalis Faloutsos
- Early Detection of DDoS Attacks via Online Social Networks Analysis
11:00am – 12:00pm EST
(Academic Building East 2400)
Keynote: Mor Naaman
1:00pm – 2:30pm EST
(Academic Building East 2400)
Session 2: Content Analysis & User Narratives
- Characterizing YouTube’s Role in Online Gambling Promotion: A Case Study of Fortune
Tiger in Brazil
Jessica Costa, Geovana Oliveira, Guilherme Fonseca, Davi Reis, Giancarlo Oliveira
Teixeira, Washington Cunha, Leonardo Rocha and Carlos Henrique Gomes Ferreira - Exploring Stance on Affirmative Action Through Reddit Narratives
Aria Pessianzadeh and Rezvaneh Rezapour - How Personal Narratives Empower Politically Disinclined Individuals to Engage in
Political Discussions
Tejasvi Chebrolu, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Ashwin Rajadesingan - Scientific Accountability: Detecting Salient Features of Retracted Articles
Muhammad Usman and Wolf-Tilo Balke
1:00pm – 2:30pm EST
(Academic Building East 4225)
Session 3: Networked Economics
- Decentralization Funded by Centralization: Understanding Crypto Joint-Investment Network
Junyu Zhang, Chenyu Zhou and Wei Cai - Political Leanings in Web3 Betting: Decoding the Interplay of Political and Profitable Motives
Hongzhou Chen, Xiaolin Duan, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik and Wei Cai - Trust Dynamics and Bot-Driven Responses: An Approach to Rug Pulls in Solana Meme
Coin Markets
Yueyao Li, Nanjun Yao, Yuhui Huo and Wei Cai - Understanding Social Capital in Decentralized Social Platform: An Empirical Study on Friend.tech
Junyu Zhang, Huiyu Wang and Wei Cai
3:00pm – 4:00pm EST
(Academic Building East 2400)
Keynote: Lee Giles
4:00pm – 5:30pm EST
(Academic Building East 2400)
Lightning talks
- LLMs as Email-Writers: A Comparison of Language in AI-Generated and Human-Written Emails
Weijiang Li, Yinmeng Lai, Sandeep Soni and Koustuv Saha - Simulating the Effects of Multi-platform Use on Misinformation Diffusion and Countermeasures
Isabel Murdock, Kathleen Carley and Osman Yagan - Beyond the Lens: Quantifying the Impact of Scientific Documentaries through Amazon Reviews
Jill Naiman, Aria Pessianzadeh, Hanyu Zhao, Aj Christensen, Alistair Nunn, Shriya Srikanth, Anushka Gami, Emma Maxwell, Louisa Zhang, Sri Nithya Yeragorla, and Shadi Rezapour - The Role of Curiosity in Information Dissemination on Telegram: A Case Study from the 2022 Brazilian Elections
Francisco Figueiredo Vasconcelos, Carlos Henrique Gomes Ferreira,
Alexandre Magno de Souza and Jussara Almeida - Public versus Less-Public News Engagement on Facebook: Patterns Across Bias and Reliability
Alireza Mohammadinodooshan and Niklas Carlsson - GitHub Repository Complexity Leads to Diminished Web Archive Availability
David Calano, Michael Nelson and Michele Weigle - COBIAS: A Contextual Reliability Framework to Assess the Quality of Bias Benchmarks for Language Models
Priyanshul Govil, Hemang Jain, Vamshi Bonagiri, Aman Chadha, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Manas Gaur and Sanorita Dey - Characterizing Network Structure of Anti-Trans Actors on TikTok
Maxyn Leitner, Rebecca Dorn, Fred Morstatter and Kristina Lerman - SmGNN: Link Prediction in Sparse Layers of Multi-layer Graphs
Huaisheng Zhu, Tianxiang Zhao, Zongyu Wu and Suhang Wang - Cross-Platform Violence Detection on Social Media: A Dataset and Analysis
Celia Chen, Scotty Beland, Ingo Burghardt, Jill Byczek, William J. Conway, Eric Cotugno,
Sadaf Davre, Megan Fletcher, Rajesh Kumar Gnanasekaran, Kristin Hamilton,
Jordan Heustis, Allison Ingalls, Tanaya Jha, Emily Klein, Hayden Kramer, Alex Leitch,
Jessica Perkins, Casi Sherman, Celia Sterrn, Logan Stevens, Rebecca Zarrella
and Jennifer Golbeck - Building Bridges between Users and Content across Multiple Platforms during Natural Disasters
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Iain J. Cruickshank and David Farr - GPT-4o for Visual Political Communication: Toward Automated Image Type Analysis
Michael Achmann-Denkler, Mario Haim and Christian Wolff - Can Generative Agent-Based Modeling Replicate the Friendship Paradox in Social Media Simulations?
Gian Marco Orlando, Valerio La Gatta, Diego Russo and Vincenzo Moscato - GenAI vs. Human Fact-Checkers: Accurate Ratings, Flawed Rationales
Yuehong Cassandra Tai, Khushi Navin Patni, Nicholas Hemauer,
Bruce Desmarais and Yu-ru Lin - An Evaluation of the Google Perspective API by Race and Gender
Nitheesha Nakka - High-Risk Communities: Mapping the Drivers of COVID-19 Misinformation Across U.S. Counties
Reyhan Jamalova, Sunny Rai, Leo Thorbecke and Sharath Guntuku - Using Semantically Unrelated and Opposite Terms for In-Context Learning: A Case Study in Identifying Political Aversion in Tweets
Patrick Y. Wu - Russian Censorship through the Lens of Time Series Analysis
Dheeman Saha, Afsah Anwar and Abdullah Mueen
5:30pm – 7:30pm EST
(Academic Building East 4202)
Poster Session and Reception
Thursday, May 22, 2025
9:00am – 10:30am EST
(Academic Building East 2400)
Session 4: Media Credibility & Bias
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- Accuracy and Political Bias of News Source Credibility Ratings by Large Language Models
Kai-Cheng Yang and Filippo Menczer - DocNet: Semantic Structure in Inductive Bias Detection Models
Jessica Zhu, Michel Cukier and Iain Cruickshank - SemCAFE: When Named Entities make the Difference–Assessing Web Source Reliability through Entity-level Analytics
Gautam Kishore Shahi, Oshani Seneviratne and Marc Spaniol - Unite or divide? Biased search queries and Google Search results in polarized politics
Chau Tong
- Accuracy and Political Bias of News Source Credibility Ratings by Large Language Models
9:00am – 10:30am EST
(Academic Building East 4225)
Session 5: AI Systems & Human Behavior
- Can LLMs Assist Annotators in Identifying Morality Frames? – Case Study on Vaccination Debate on Social Media
Tunazzina Islam and Dan Goldwasser - Validation of an Improved Vision-Based Web Page Parsing Pipeline
Michael Cormier, Robin Cohen, Richard Mann, Karyn Moffatt, Daniel Vogel,
Mengfei Liu, and Shangshang Zheng - Evaluation of Reliability Criteria for News Publishers with Large Language Models
Manuel Pratelli, John Bianchi, Fabio Pinelli and Marinella Petrocchi - Master of Deceit: Comparative Analysis of Human and Machine-Generated Deceptive Text
Minh Trinh, Samiha Zarin and Rezvaneh Rezapour
11:00am – 12:00pm EST
(Academic Building East 2400)
Keynote: Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
1:00pm – 2:30pm EST
(Academic Building East 2400)
Session 6: Digital Communication & Mobilization
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- A Discourse Analysis Framework for Legislative and Social Media Debates
Arman Irani, Ju Yeon Park, Kevin Esterling and Michalis Faloutsos - Digital Inequality in ChatGPT Awareness and Knowledge: Evidence from a National Survey
Eszter Hargittai, Gerta Lokaj and Lukas Hess - The Effects of Enterprise Social Media on Communication Networks
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Teny Shapiro and Siddharth Suri - The Role of Organizations in Networked Mobilization: Examining the 2011 Chilean Student Movement Through The Logic of Connective Action
Diego Gomez-Zara, Carolina Pérez Arredondo and Denis Parra
- A Discourse Analysis Framework for Legislative and Social Media Debates
1:00pm – 2:30pm EST
(Academic Building East 4225)
Session 7: Online Safety & Policy
- Facilitating Gender Diverse Authorship: A Comparative Analysis of Academic Publishers’ Name Change Policies
Deanna Zarrillo - Multilingualism, Transnationality, and K-pop in the Online #StopAsianHate Movement
Tessa Masis, Zhangqi Duan, Weiai Xu, Jane Pyo, Ethan Zuckerman and Brendan O’Connor - Not Here, Go There: Analyzing Redirection Patterns on the Web
Kritika Garg, Sawood Alam, Michele Weigle, Michael Nelson and Dietrich Ayala - The Evolving Landscape of Youth Online Safety: Insights from News Media Analysis
Mohammad Namvarpour, Elham Aghakhani, Michael D Ekstrand,
Rezvaneh Rezapour, and Afsaneh Razi
3:00pm – 4:30pm EST
(Academic Building East 2400)
Session 8: Political Discourse & Platform Moderation
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- Analyzing Political Discourse on Discord during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
Arthur Buzelin, Pedro Dutenhefner, Marcelo Locatelli, Samira Malaquias, Pedro Bento,
Yan Aquino, Lucas Dayrell, Victoria Estanislau, Caio Santana, Pedro Loures, Marisa
Vasconcelos, Wagner Meira Jr, Virgilio Almeida - Digital Sabotage and Inter-Community Dynamics: An Empirical Examination of Reddit’s 2023 Moderator Strike
Franz Xaver Waltenberger, Angelina Voggenreiter and Juergen Pfeffer - Framing the Fray: Conflict Framing in Indian Election News Coverage
Tejasvi Chebrolu, Rohan Modepalle, N Harsha Vardhan, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
and Ashwin Rajadesingan
- Analyzing Political Discourse on Discord during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
3:00pm – 4:30pm EST
(Academic Building East 4225)
Session 9: Contemporary Issues in Social Media
- A Call to Arms: Automated Methods for Identifying Weapons in Social Media Analysis
of Conflict Zones
Afia Abedin, Abdul Bais, Cody Buntain, Laura Courchesne, Brian McQuinn,
Matthew E. Taylor and Muhib Ullah - Beyond Sentiment: Examining the Role of Moral Foundations in User Engagement with
News on Twitter
Jacopo D’Ignazi, Kyriaki Kalimeri and Mariano Gastón Beiró - Mapping News Narratives Using LLMs and Narrative-Structured Text Embeddings
Jan Elfes - Understanding Narratives of Trauma in Social Media
Mansi Saxena, Vaibhav Garg, Bhaskar Ray, Aura Mishra and Munindar Singh
Friday, May 23, 2025
9:00am – 10:30am EST
(Academic Building East 2400)
Session 10: Platform Governance & User Safety
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- Can Large Language Models Effectively Mitigate Polarization in Social Media Text?
Lucas Raniére Juvino Santos, Leandro Balby Marinho, Cláudio Elízio Calazans Campelo,
Filippo Menczer and Alessandro Flammini - Decentralized Discourse: Interaction Dynamics on Mastodon
Michael Brauweiler, Meher Chaitanya Pindiprolu, Jürgen Pfeffer and Ulrik Brandes - Is it safe? Analysis of Live Streams Targeted at Kids on Twitch.tv
Luana A. Silva, Kênia C. Gonçalves, Humberto T. Marques-Neto and Jussara M. Almeida - Too Little, Too Late: Moderation of Misinformation around the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
Gautam Kishore Shahi and Yelena Mejova
- Can Large Language Models Effectively Mitigate Polarization in Social Media Text?
11:00am – 12:00am EST
(Academic Building East 2400)
Dame Wendy Hall
12:00pm – 1:00pm EST
(Academic Building East 2400)
Best paper awards and conference closing