Should social media platforms override a community's self-policing when it repeatedly break
rules? What actions can they consider? In light of this debate, platforms have begun …

Political polarization remains perhaps the “greatest barrier” to effective COVID-19 pandemic
mitigation measures in the United States. Social media has been implicated in fueling this …

In this paper we study how to identify persuasive posts in the online forum discussions,
using data from Change My View sub-Reddit. Our analysis confirms that the users' voting …

The social news aggregator Reddit is among the most popular websites on the internet.
Many online users use the platform to anonymously share and discuss (mostly US-centric) …

It has been one year since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The good news is that
vaccines developed by several manufacturers are being actively distributed worldwide …

This book answers one of the most critical questions of our time, does the vast connectivity
afforded by mobile and social media lead to more personal connection with one another? It …

Background Open online forums like Reddit provide an opportunity to quantitatively examine
COVID-19 vaccine perceptions early in the vaccine timeline. We examine COVID-19 …

Social instant messaging services are emerging as a transformative form with which people
connect, communicate with friends in their daily life they catalyze the formation of social …

Motivation Scientists increasingly rely on intelligent information systems to help them in their
daily tasks, in particular for managing research objects, like publications or datasets. The …

Condescending language use is caustic; it can bring dialogues to an end and bifurcate
communities. Thus, systems for condescension detection could have a large positive impact …