Proceedings of the ICWSM Workshops

8 June, 2020, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (virtual)

Workshop Chairs
Stevie Chancellor (Northwestern University, Chicago, USA)
Kiran Garimella (MIT, Boston, USA)
Katrin Weller (GESIS, Cologne, Germany)

This issue of the ICWSM Workshop Proceedings contains papers published at the workshops held on June 8th, 2020 at the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2020) taking place (virtually) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Published: 2020-06-05

Workshop on Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social Media (Emoji 2020)

The Anatomy of Memetic Stickers: An Analysis of Sticker Competition on Chinese Social Media
Jing Ge
Word-Emoji Embeddings from large scale Messaging Data reflect real-world Semantic Associations of Expressive Icons
Jens Helge Reelfs, Oliver Hohlfeld, Markus Strohmaier, Niklas Henckell
Animoji Adoption and Use: Gender Associations with an Emergent Technology
Susan C. Herring, Ashley R. Dainas, Holly Lopez Long, Ying Tang
What's behind those smiling eyes: Examining emoji sentiment across vendors
Ashley A. Shurick, Jennifer Daniel
Do Emoji Sequences Have a Preferred Word Order?
Susan C. Herring, Jing Ge

Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2020)

Cyber Social Threats 2020 Workshop Meta-report: COVID-19, Challenges, Methodological and Ethical Considerations
Ugur Kursuncu, Yelena Mejova, Jeremy Blackburn, Amit Sheth
Navigating Negativity in Research: Methodological and Ethical Considerations in the Study of Antisocial, Subversive and Toxic Online Communities and Behaviours
Kimberley R. Allison
Is this pofma? Analysing public opinion and misinformation in a COVID-19 Telegram group chat
Ng Hui Xian Lynnette, Loke Jia Yuan
Fake News Detection using Temporal Features Extracted via Point Process
Taichi Murayama Shoko Wakamiya, Eiji Aramaki
FakeCovid- A Multilingual Cross-domain Fact Check News Dataset for COVID-19
Gautam Kishore Shahi, Durgesh Nandini
Examining the Impact of Social Distance on the Reaction to a Tragedy. A Case Study on Sulli's Death
Chen Ling, Gianluca Stringhini
Prevalence of Low-Credibility Information on Twitter During the COVID-19 Outbreak
Kai-Cheng Yang, Christopher Torres-Lugo, Filippo Menczer
Middle East Twitter bots and the covid-19 infodemic
Alexei Abrahams, Noura Aljizawi
SMAT: The Social Media Analysis Toolkit
Emmi Bevensee, Maxwell Aliapoulios, Quinn Dougherty, Jason Baumgartner, Damon McCoy, Jeremy Blackburn

5th Worksop on Social Sensing (SocialSens 2020)

Dynamic topic modeling of the COVID-19 Twitter narrative among U.S. governors and cabinet executives
Hao Sha, Mohammad Al Hasan, George Mohler, P. Jeffrey Brantingham
Learning Twitter User Sentiments on Climate Change with Limited Labeled Data
Allison Koenecke, Jordi Feliu-Fabà
Detecting and Annotating Narratives in Social Media: A Vision Paper
Mack Blackburn, Ning Yu, Alex Memory, W. Graham Mueller
Linguistic Rules for Fine-Grained Opinion Extraction
Francielle Alves Vargas, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo

Mediate: Social and News Media Misinformation Workshop

Stance Classification for Rumour Verification in Social Media Conversations
Elena Kochkina, Maria Liakata, Arkaitz Zubiaga
Digital Weapons in Social Media Manipulation Campaigns
Felipe Cardoso, Luca Luceri, Silvia Giordano

Workshop on NEws and publiC Opinion (NECO) 2020

Google's Top Stories and the Fairness Doctrine: Unbalanced Amplification of Far-Right News Sources
Eni Mustafaraj
Taking the public in public broadcasting seriously: BBC and news sharing during the Covid-19 crisis
Laszlo Horvath, Susan Banducci, Katharine Tyler, Cathrine Degnen, Joshua Blamire, Dan Stevens, Travis Coan