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- research-articleMay 2024
Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Online Eating Disorder Communities on Reddit
WWW '24: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024Pages 1695–1704https://doi.org/10.1145/3589335.3652506The social restrictions, disruptions in daily activities, and psychological stressors arising from the COVID-19 pandemic constitute a psychological burden for people worldwide, which can be especially detrimental for individuals with mental disorders ...
- short-paperMay 2024
Quantifying Governance of Online Communities at Web Scale
WWW '24: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024Pages 1222–1225https://doi.org/10.1145/3589335.3651266Online communities are powerful tools to connect people and are used worldwide by billions of people. Nearly all online communities rely upon moderators or admins to govern the community in order to mitigate potential harms such as harassment, ...
Navigating Multidimensional Ideologies with Reddit's Political Compass: Economic Conflict and Social Affinity
WWW '24: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024Pages 2582–2593https://doi.org/10.1145/3589334.3645606The prevalent perspective in quantitative research on opinion dynamics flattens the landscape of the online political discourse into a traditional left--right dichotomy. While this approach helps simplify the analysis and modeling effort, it also ...
- research-articleMay 2024
Deliberate Exposure to Opposing Views and Its Association with Behavior and Rewards on Political Communities
WWW '24: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024Pages 2347–2358https://doi.org/10.1145/3589334.3645375Engaging with diverse political views is important for reaching better collective decisions, however, users online tend to remain confined within ideologically homogeneous spaces. In this work, we study users who are members of these spaces but who also ...
- research-articleApril 2024
Community Archetypes: An Empirical Framework for Guiding Research Methodologies to Reflect User Experiences of Sense of Virtual Community on Reddit
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 8, Issue CSCW1Article No.: 33, Pages 1–33https://doi.org/10.1145/3637310Humans need a sense of community (SOC), and social media platforms afford opportunities to address this need by providing users with a sense of virtual community (SOVC). This paper explores SOVC on Reddit and is motivated by two goals: (1) providing ...
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- research-articleFebruary 2024
Remember the Human: A Systematic Review of Ethical Considerations in Reddit Research
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 8, Issue GROUPArticle No.: 5, Pages 1–33https://doi.org/10.1145/3633070Reddit is one of the world's most prominent social media platforms, and also a valuable source of data for internet researchers. However, working with this kind of data also presents novel ethical complications for researchers, including issues around ...
- research-articleMarch 2024
Exploring the Landscape of Drug Communities on Reddit: A Network Study
ASONAM '23: Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and MiningPages 558–565https://doi.org/10.1145/3625007.3629125In a world where the use of social media is almost universal, understanding its influence on drug information consumption has become a crucial topic of research. This study delves into the networks of drug-centric subreddits to gain insights into ...
- short-paperMarch 2024
Understanding Characteristics of Catalyst Users in the WallStreetBets Community
- Ehsan-Ul Haq,
- Yiming Zhu,
- Zijun Lin,
- Haodi Weng,
- Gareth Tyson,
- Lik-Hang Lee,
- Reza Hadi Mogavi,
- Tristan Braud,
- Pan Hui
ASONAM '23: Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and MiningPages 320–324https://doi.org/10.1145/3625007.3627595WallStreetBets (WSB), a Reddit community, impacted stock markets during the 2021 GameStop Short Squeeze. We examine the content and user properties that influence engagement in WSB. Despite WSB's association with emojis and informal terms, engagement ...
- research-articleMarch 2024
An Agent-Based Model of Reddit Interactions and Moderation
ASONAM '23: Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and MiningPages 195–202https://doi.org/10.1145/3625007.3627489Among popular social media platforms, Reddit stands out for its decentralized approach to moderation and community management. Due to this and its community-based network structure, Reddit provides a unique environment for studying the diffusion of ...
- short-paperMarch 2024
Generating insights about financial asks from Reddit posts and user interactions
ASONAM '23: Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and MiningPages 294–299https://doi.org/10.1145/3625007.3627313As an increasingly large number of people turn to platforms like Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc. for financial advice, generating insights about the content generated and interactions taking place within these platforms have become a key ...
- research-articleOctober 2023
Social Media and College-Related Social Support Exchange for First-Generation, Low-Income Students: The Role of Identity Disclosures
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 7, Issue CSCW2Article No.: 296, Pages 1–36https://doi.org/10.1145/3610087First-generation, low-income (FGLI) students face barriers to college access and retention that reproduce socioeconomic inequities. These students turn to social media for college-related social support. However, while students can reap benefits from ...
- research-articleOctober 2023
"How Do You Quantify How Racist Something Is?": Color-Blind Moderation in Decentralized Governance
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 7, Issue CSCW2Article No.: 239, Pages 1–27https://doi.org/10.1145/3610030Volunteer moderators serve as gatekeepers for problematic content, such as racism and other forms of hate speech, on digital platforms. Prior studies have reported volunteer moderators' diverse roles in different governance models, highlighting the ...
- research-articleSeptember 2023
Along the Margins: Marginalized Communities' Ethical Concerns about Social Platforms
ICSE-SEIS '23: Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in SocietyPages 71–82https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEIS58686.2023.00013In this paper, we identified marginalized communities' ethical concerns about social platforms. We performed this identification because recent platform malfeasance indicates that software teams prioritize shareholder concerns over user concerns. ...
- research-articleApril 2023
Understanding the Use of e-Prints on Reddit and 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Board
WebSci '23: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023Pages 117–127https://doi.org/10.1145/3578503.3583627The dissemination and reach of scientific knowledge have increased at a blistering pace. In this context, e-Print servers have played a central role by providing scientists with a rapid and open mechanism for disseminating research without waiting for ...
- Work in ProgressApril 2023
Reddit Insights: Improving Online Discussion Culture by Contextualizing User Profiles
CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 245, Pages 1–6https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585671More than forty years after the creation of the first online messaging board, the quality of online discussion culture remains a topic of significant scientific and public debate. Social media platforms have struggled to maintain a free marketplace of ...
- research-articleApril 2023
Social Media is not a Health Proxy: Differences Between Social Media and Electronic Health Record Reports of Post-COVID Symptoms
- Jessica A Pater,
- Amanda Coupe,
- Fayika Farhat Nova,
- Rachel Pfafman,
- Jeanne Carroll,
- Abigal Brouwer,
- Camden Bohn,
- Jason Li,
- Noah Todd,
- Fen Lei Chang,
- Shion Guha
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 7, Issue CSCW1Article No.: 148, Pages 1–25https://doi.org/10.1145/3579624The COVID-19 pandemic transformed many aspects of health and daily life. A subset of people who were infected with the virus have ongoing chronic health issues that range in type of symptom and severity. In this study, we conducted a qualitative ...
- research-articleApril 2023
Vizdat: A Technology Probe to Understand the Space of Discussion Around Data Visualization on Reddit
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 7, Issue CSCW1Article No.: 110, Pages 1–16https://doi.org/10.1145/3579544Visualizations play a considerable role in explaining trends or providing evidence when consuming data online. Whether those visualizations are shared on news outlets or social networks, platforms usually allow readers to discuss their stories in ...
- research-articleApril 2023
Supporters First: Understanding Online Social Support on Mental Health from a Supporter Perspective
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 7, Issue CSCW1Article No.: 92, Pages 1–28https://doi.org/10.1145/3579525Social support or peer support in mental health has successfully settled down in online spaces by reducing the potential risk of critical mental illness (e.g., suicidal thoughts) of support-seekers. While the prior work has mostly focused on support-...
- research-articleApril 2023
Helping Each Other Quit Online: Understanding User Engagement and Real-life Outcomes of the r/StopSmoking Digital Smoking Cessation Community
ACM Transactions on Social Computing (TSC), Volume 6, Issue 1-2Article No.: 1, Pages 1–30https://doi.org/10.1145/3564745Despite decades of prevention, tobacco addiction is still a widespread health concern responsible for around 8 million deaths per year. Existing digital smoking cessation solutions such as social media are becoming increasingly popular and represent a ...
- research-articleDecember 2022
Exploring Crowdsourced Content Moderation Through Lens of Reddit during COVID-19
AINTEC '22: Proceedings of the 17th Asian Internet Engineering ConferencePages 26–35https://doi.org/10.1145/3570748.3570753In 2020, when COVID-19 struck, social media gained even more influence in people’s lives due to increased online activity. This event led to a surge of false information and cyberbullying, making content moderation harder than ever. Given this ...