Social data: Biases, methodological pitfalls, and ethical boundaries

A Olteanu, C Castillo, F Diaz, E Kıcıman - Frontiers in big data, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Social data in digital form—including user-generated content, expressed or implicit relations
between people, and behavioral traces—are at the core of popular applications and …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial intelligence is stupid and causal reasoning will not fix it

JM Bishop - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Artificial Neural Networks have reached “grandmaster” and even “super-human”
performance across a variety of games, from those involving perfect information, such as Go …

The effect of extremist violence on hateful speech online

A Olteanu, C Castillo, J Boy, K Varshney - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ojs.aaai.org
User-generated content online is shaped by many factors, including endogenous elements
such as platform affordances and norms, as well as exogenous elements, in particular …

Fake cures: user-centric modeling of health misinformation in social media

A Ghenai, Y Mejova - Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Social media's unfettered access has made it an important venue for health discussion and
a resource for patients and their loved ones. However, the quality of information available …

Text and causal inference: A review of using text to remove confounding from causal estimates

KA Keith, D Jensen, B O'Connor - ar** HCI research methods for studying social media interaction: A systematic literature review
Y Shibuya, A Hamm, TC Pargman - Computers in Human Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
In the last decades, researchers in Human-computer interaction (HCI) took numerous efforts
to investigate people's social media interaction. To understand how researchers in HCI have …

Causal effects of linguistic properties

R Pryzant, D Card, D Jurafsky, V Veitch… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
We consider the problem of using observational data to estimate the causal effects of
linguistic properties. For example, does writing a complaint politely lead to a faster response …

Bystanders of Online Moderation: Examining the Effects of Witnessing Post-Removal Explanations

S Jhaver, H Rathi, K Saha - Proceedings of the CHI Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Prior research on transparency in content moderation has demonstrated the benefits of
offering post-removal explanations to sanctioned users. In this paper, we examine whether …