Practicing information sensibility: How Gen Z engages with online information

A Hassoun, I Beacock, S Consolvo… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Assessing the trustworthiness of information online is complicated. Literacy-based
paradigms are both widely used to help and widely critiqued. We conducted a study with 35 …

Media bias monitor: Quantifying biases of social media news outlets at large-scale

F Ribeiro, L Henrique, F Benevenuto… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ojs.aaai.org
As Internet users increasingly rely on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to receive
news, they are faced with a bewildering number of news media choices. For example …

Mining social media for newsgathering: A review

A Zubiaga - Online Social Networks and Media, 2019 - Elsevier
Social media is becoming an increasingly important data source for learning about breaking
news and for following the latest developments of ongoing news. This is in part possible …

Search bias quantification: investigating political bias in social media and web search

J Kulshrestha, M Eslami, J Messias, MB Zafar… - Information Retrieval …, 2019 - Springer
Users frequently use search systems on the Web as well as online social media to learn
about ongoing events and public opinion on personalities. Prior studies have shown that the …

Inside the right-leaning echo chambers: Characterizing gab, an unmoderated social system

L Lima, JCS Reis, P Melo, F Murai… - 2018 ieee/acm …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The moderation of content in many social media systems, such as Twitter and Facebook,
motivated the emergence of a new social network system that promotes free speech, named …

Analyzing textual (mis) information shared in WhatsApp groups

G Resende, P Melo, J CS Reis… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Whatsapp is a messenger app that is currently very popular around the world. With a user-
friendly interface, it allows people to instantaneously exchange messages in a very intuitive …

Upvotes? Downvotes? No Votes? Understanding the relationship between reaction mechanisms and political discourse on Reddit

O Papakyriakopoulos, S Engelmann… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
A significant share of political discourse occurs online on social media platforms.
Policymakers and researchers try to understand the role of social media design in sha** …

Overcoming polarization with chatbot news? Investigating the impact of news content containing opposing views on agreement and credibility

B Zarouali, M Makhortykh, M Bastian… - European journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Chatbots are a burgeoning opportunity for news media outlets to disseminate their content in
a conversational way, and create an engaging experience around it. Since chatbots are …

Adversarial graph embeddings for fair influence maximization over social networks

M Khajehnejad, AA Rezaei, M Babaei… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Influence maximization is a widely studied topic in network science, where the aim is to
reach the maximum possible number of nodes, while only targeting a small initial set of …

Personalizing the war: Perspectives for the adoption of news recommendation algorithms in the media coverage of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine

M Makhortykh, M Bastian - Media, war & conflict, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The use of algorithmically tailored individual news feeds is increasingly viewed as an
important strategy for accommodating consumers' information needs by legacy media …