ICWSM General Reports

• Towards A Diverse, Inclusive, Accessible and Equitable AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)

  Jason R.C. Nurse, Francielle Vargas, Naeemul Hassan, Dakuo Wang, Panagiotis Andriotis, Amira Ghenai, Kokil Jaidka, Eni Mustafaraj, Kenneth Joseph, Brooke Foucault Welles

Emoji 2021: International Workshop on Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social Media

• The past and future of hand emoji

  Lauren Gawne, Jennifer Daniel
• Modeling Emoji Generation for Emotion Analysis of Social Media Short Texts

  Sujatha Das Gollapalli, See-Kiong Ng
• The Use of the 'Face with Tears of Joy' Emoji on WhatsApp: A Conversation-Analytical Approach

  Agnese Sampietro
• The Shadowy Lives of Emojis: An Analysis of a Hacktivist Collective's Use of Emojis on Twitter

  Keenan Jones, Jason R. C. Nurse, Shujun Li
• Emojis and Words Work Together in the Service of Communication

  Laurie Beth Feldman, Eliza Barach, Vidhushini Srinivasan, Samira Shaikh
• Identity Signals in Emoji do not Influence Perception of Factual Truth on Twitter

  Alexander Robertson, Walid Magdy, Sharon Goldwater
• Semantic Journeys: Quantifying Change in Emoji Meaning from 2012-2018

  Alexander Robertson, Farhana Ferdousi Liza, Dong Nguyen, Barbara McGillivray, Scott A. Hale
• MEOW! Okay, I shouldn't have done that:Factors Influencing Vocal Performance through Animoji

  Susan C. Herring, Ashley R. Dainas, Ying Tang

International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2021)

• VaccinItaly: Monitoring Italian Conversations Around Vaccines On Twitter And Facebook

  Francesco Pierri, Andrea Tocchetti, Lorenzo Corti, Marco Di Giovanni, Silvio Pavanetto, Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri
• Likes are not Likes A Crowdworking Platform Analysis

  Dennis Tatang, Philip Kreißel, Michael Sehring, Florian Quinkert, Martin Degeling, Thorsten Holz
• Multi-Scale User Migration on Reddit

  Cai Davies, James Ashford, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Alun Preece, Liam D. Turner, Roger M. Whitaker, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Diane Felmlee
• Detecting Anti-Jewish Messages on Social Media. Building an Annotated Corpus That Can Serve as A Preliminary Gold Standard

  Gunther Jikeli, Deepika Awasthi, David Axelrod, Daniel Miehling, Pauravi Wagh, Weejoeng Joeng
• Epidemiological Model Independent Misinformation Source Identification

  Kaustav Basu, Arunabha Sen
• Toxicity-Associated News Classification: The Impact of Metadata and Content Features

  Paula Fortuna, Luís B. Cruz, Rodrigo Maia, Vanessa Cortez, Sérgio Nunes
• Combating Human Trafficking via Automatic OSINT Collection, Validation and Fusion

  Bibek Upadhayay, Zeeshan Ahmed M Lodhia, Vahid Behzadan

International Workshop on Social Sensing (SocialSens 2021): Special Edition on Information Operations on Social Media

• Exploring New Methods for Identifying False Information and the Intent Behind It on Social Media: COVID-19 Tweets

  Lin Ai, Run Chen, Ziwei Gong, Julia Guo, Shayan Hooshmand, Zixiaofan Yang, Julia Hirschberg
• On Polarization Dynamics in the Age of Information Overload

  Chao Xu, Jinyang Li, Dachun Sun, Ruijie Wang,Tarek Abdelzaher, Jesse Graham, Boleslaw Szymanski
• A Trust-Motivated Framework for Assessing Governments Engagement with Citizens on Social Media

  Ilaria Bonavita, Emily Maitland
• The Polarized Web of the Voter Fraud Claims in the 2020 US Presidential Election

  Sreeja Nair, Adriana Iamnitchi
• Mapping Moral Valence of Tweets Following The Killing of George Floyd

  J. Hunter Priniski, Negar Mokhberian, Bahareh Harandizadeh, Fred Morstatter, Kristina Lerman, Hongjing Lu, P. Jeffrey Brantingham
• Multi-platform Information Operations: Twitter, Facebook and YouTube against the White Helmets

  Kin Wai NG, Sameera Horawalavithana, Adriana Iamnitchi
• Analyzing COVID-19 Tweets with Transformer-based Language Models

  Philip Feldman, Sim Tiwari, Charissa S. L. Cheah, James R. Foulds, Shimei Pan
• Understanding Identity Signalling in Persuasive Online Text

  Melanie Subbiah, Kathleen McKeown
• Evidence based Automatic Fact-Checking for Climate Change Misinformation

  Gengyu Wang, Lawrence Chillrud, Kathleen McKeown

Data for the Wellbeing of Most Vulnerable

• Individual-level Anxiety Detection and Prediction from Longitudinal YouTube and Google Search Engagement Logs

  Anis Zaman, Boyu Zhang, Vincent Silenzio, Henry Kautz, Ehsan Hoque
• Tactical Reframing of Online Disinformation Campaigns Against The Istanbul Convention

  Tugrulcan Elmas, Rebekah Overdorf, Karl Aberer
• The Role of Vulnerability in Mediating the Relationship between Threat Perception and the Use of Face Masks in the Context of COVID-19

  Daniela Perrotta, Emanuele Del Fava, Emilio Zagheni

Information Credibility and Alternative Realities in Troubled Democracies

• Disambiguating Disinformation: Extending Beyond the Veracity of Online Content

  Keeley Erhardt, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
• A Content-based Approach for the Analysis and Classification of Vaccine-related Stances on Twitter: the Italian Scenario

  Marco Di Giovanni, Lorenzo Corti, Silvio Pavanetto, Francesco Pierri, Andrea Tocchetti, Marco Brambilla

Mediate 2021: News Media and Computational Journalism

• Tell Me Who Your Friends Are: Using Content Sharing Behavior for News Source Veracity Detection

  Maurício Gruppi, Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali
• From Tweeting About News to Creating News Around Tweets: Characterizing Tweets Embedded in News Articles

  Maurício Gruppi, Sibel Adali, Matthew Salemi, Benjamin D. Horne
• Can We Stop Fake News? Using Agent-Based Modelling to Evaluate Countermeasures for Misinformation on Social Media

  Anna Gausen,Wayne Luk, Ce Guo
• User Perceptions of Article Credibility Warnings: Towards Understanding the Influence of Journalists and AI Agents

  Matthew Sumpter, Tempestt Neal

Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks: Special Edition on Healthcare Social Analytics

• Symptom Extraction from the Narratives of Personal Experiences with COVID-19 on Reddit

  Curtis Murray, Lewis Mitchell, Simon Tuke, Mark Mackay
• Lonely road: speculative challenges for a social media robot aimed to reduce driver loneliness

  Felipe Valle, Alexander Galozy, Awais Ashfaq, Kobra Etminani, Alexey Vinel, Martin Cooney
• Obtaining insights about nonmedical use of prescription medications from social media via natural language processing

  Abeed Sarker

Workshop Reports

• ICWSM 2021 Workshop on Data for the Wellbeing of Most Vulnerable: Promises and Challenges

  Yelena Mejova, Kyraki Kalimeri, Daniela Paolotti, Rumi Chunara