The deluge of digital information in our daily life—from user-generated content, such as
microblogs and scientific papers, to online business, such as viral marketing and advertising …

Online forums provide rich environments where users may post questions and comments
about different topics. Understanding how people behave in online forums may shed light on …

We theorize peer awards' effects on the volume and novelty of creative user-generated
content (UGC) produced at online platform communities. We then test our hypotheses via a …

Recruiting participants is a necessary step in many studies. With the advent of online
research techniques, scientists are looking for new places where participants can be …

Clickbaits are articles with misleading titles, exaggerating the content on the landing page.
Their goal is to entice users to click on the title in order to monetize the landing page. The …

Existing open-domain dialog models are generally trained to minimize the perplexity of
target human responses. However, some human replies are more engaging than others …

In the past few years, Reddit--a community-driven platform for submitting, commenting and
rating links and text posts--has grown exponentially, from a small community of users into …

Consider a person trying to spread an important message on a social network. He/she can
spend hours trying to craft the message. Does it actually matter? While there has been …

Social media has become an integral component of the modern information system. An
average person typically has multiple accounts across different platforms. At the same time …

Recommendation systems for Web content distribution intricately connect to the information
access and exposure opportunities for vulnerable populations. The emergence of Large …