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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

9:00am – 10:30am EST
(Academic Building East 2400)
Session 1: Digital Identity & Social Systems

• • 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
    
    

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
  
  

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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
• Multi-Party Supervised Fine-tuning of Language Models for Multi-Party Dialogue Generation
  Xiaoyu Wang, Ningyuan Xi, Teng Chen, Qingqing Gu, Yue Zhao, Zhonglin Jiang, Yong Chen and Luo Ji
• 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

• • 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
    
    

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

• • 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
    
    

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

• • 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
    
    

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

• • 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
    
    

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