Proceedings of the ICWSM Workshops

Workshop Proceedings of the 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

5 June, 2023, Limassol, Cyprus

Workshop Chairs
Styliani Kleanthous (CYENS CoE, Cyprus)
Minsu Park (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Oren Tsur (Ben Gurion University, Israel)

This issue of the ICWSM Workshop Proceedings contains papers published at the workshops held on June 5th, 2023 at the 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2023).

Published: 2023-06-01

Workshop on Data for the Wellbeing of Most Vulnerable

Demographic inequalities in digital spaces in China: The case of Weibo
Wenqing Qian, Ole Hexel, Emilio Zagheni, Ridhi Kashyap, Ingmar Weber
What are Your Pronouns? Examining Gender Pronoun Usage on Twitter
Julie Jiang, Emily Chen, Luca Luceri, Goran Muric, Francesco Pierri, Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Emilio Ferrara
Beyond the Headlines: Understanding Sentiments and Morals Impacting Female Employment in Spain
Oscar Araque, Luca Barbaglia, Francesco Berlingieri, Marco Colagrossi, Sergio Consoli, Lorenzo Gatti, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Mauri Caterina
News Hurts: Exploring the Link Between Pandemic-Related Social Media Use and Trauma Symptoms
Claudine Tinsman, Max Van Kleek, Siddharth Arora
Online Networks of Support in Distressed Environments: Solidarity and Mobilization during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Jinyi Ye, Nikhil Jindal, Francesco Pierri, Luca Luceri
Unveiling the dynamics of censorship, COVID-19 regulations, and protest: An Empirical Study of Chinese Subreddit r/china irl
Siyi Zhou, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
CoVaxNet: An Online-Offline Data Repository for COVID-19 Vaccine Research
Bohan Jiang, Paras Sheth, Baoxin Li, Huan Liu

Disrupt, Ally, Resist, Embrace (DARE): Action Items for Computational Social Scientists in a Changing World

Disrupt, Ally, Resist, Embrace (DARE): Action Items for Computational Social Scientists in a Changing World
Kokil Jaidka, Eni Mustafaraj, David Schoch, Kenny Joseph
If the data do not speak for themselves, how ought we to speak for the data?
Ian Van Buskirk, Brian Zaharatos, Aaron Clauset, Daniel B. Larremore
Why Don't We Ever Talk About Education When We Talk About Computational Social Science?
Diliara Valeeva
Hey, ChatGPT, how does CSS research need to change? Research questions in CSS in the wake of the perceived LLM singularity
Olga Zagovora, Ralf Lämmel
From Humans to Machines: Can ChatGPT-like LLMs Effectively Replace Human Annotators in NLP Tasks
Surendrabikram Thapa, Usman Naseem, Mehwish Nasim

Mediate 2023: News Media and Computational Journalism Workshop

Mediate 2023: News Media and Computational Journalism Workshop
Talia Tseriotou, Dina Pisarevskaya, Elena Kochkina, Marya Bazzi, Maria Liakata, Arkaitz Zubiaga
NewsQuote: A Dataset Built on Quote Extraction and Attribution for Expert Recommendation in Fact-Checking
Wenjia Zhang, Lin Gui, Rob Procter, Yulan He
Uncovering Political Hate Speech During Indian Election Campaign: A New Low-Resource Dataset and Baselines
Farhan Ahmad Jafri, Mohammad Aman Siddiqui, Surendrabikram Thapa, Kritesh Rauniyar, Usman Naseem, Imran Razzak
Combating the COVID-19 Infodemic: Untrustworthy Tweet Classification using Heterogeneous Graph Transformer
Lin Ai, Zizhou Liu, Julia Hirschberg
Bias or Diversity? Unraveling Fine-Grained Thematic Discrepancy in U.S. News Headlines
Jinsheng Pan, Weihong Qi, Zichen Wang, Hanjia Lyu, Jiebo Luo
Leveraging Social Interactions to Detect Misinformation on Social Media
Tommaso Fornaciari, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara, Dirk Hovy
aedFaCT: Scientific Fact-Checking Made Easier via Semi-Automatic Discovery of Relevant Expert Opinions
Enes Altuncu, Jason R.C. Nurse, Meryem Bagriacik, Sophie Kaleba, Haiyue Yuan, Lisa Bonheme, Shujun Li
Some Observations on Fact-Checking Work with Implications for Computational Support
Rob Procter, Miguel Arana Catania, Yulan He, Maria Liakata, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Elena Kochkina, Runcong Zhao

PhoMemes 2023: Second Workshop on Images in Online Political Communication

Characterizing Image Sharing Behaviors in US Politically Engaged, Random, and Demographic Audience Segments
Keng-Chi Chang, Cody Buntain
Categorizing Memes about Abortion
Yashna Nainani, Kaveh Khoshnood, Ashley Feng, Muhammad Siddique, Clara Broekaert, Allie Wong, Koustuv Saha, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Zach Schwitzky, Lam Yin Cheung, Frederick L. Altice, Navin Kumar
Unsupervised Image Classification by Ideological Affiliation from User-Content Interaction Patterns
Xinyi Liu, Jinning Li, Dachun Sun, Ruijie Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Matt Brown, Anthony Barricelli, Matthias Kirchner, Arslan Basharat

TrueHealth 2023: Workshop on Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing

Summary paper: TrueHealth: Workshop on Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing @ ICWSM 2023
Gabriella Pasi, Rishabh Upadhyay, Marco Viviani
Disinformation and health: A systematic review study on health automatic fact-checking during the pandemic
Haline Maia
Towards Developing a Measure to Assess Contagiousness of Toxic Tweets
Niloofar Yousefi, Nahiyan Bin Noor, Billy Spann, Nitin Agarwal
Ecologies of Conspiracy Influencers: A Creator-Centered Lens on Understanding Multiplatform Strategies
Abhishek Roy, Ashley Marie Walker
A Large-Scale Comparative Study of Accurate COVID-19 Information versus Misinformation
Yida Mu, Ye Jiang, Freddy Heppell, Iknoor Singh, Carolina Scarton, Kalina Bontcheva, Xingyi Song
A BERT-based Explainable System for COVID-19 Misinformation Identification
Lwin Moe, Arghya Kundu, Uyen Trang Nguyen

Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems (NEATCLasS)

NEATCLasS 2023: The 2nd Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems
Björn Ross, Roberto Navigli, Agostina Calabrese, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar
Benchmark Evaluation for Tasks with Highly Subjective Crowdsourced Annotations: Case study in Argument Mining of Political Debates
Rafael Mestre, Matt Ryan, Stuart E. Middleton, Richard Gomer, Masood Gheasi, Jiatong Zhu, Timothy J. Norman
CoMID: COVID-19 Misinformation Alignment Detection Using Content and User Data
Nazanin Jafari, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, James Allan, Keen Sung, Shiri Dori Hacohen, Matthew Rattigan
Identifying Different Layers of Online Misogyny
Wienke Strathern, Jürgen Pfeffer
Toxicity Inspector: A Framework to Evaluate Ground Truth in Toxicity Detection Through Feedback
Huriyyah Althunayan, Rahaf Bahlas, Manar Alharbi, Lena Alsuwailem, Abeer Aldayel, Rehab ALahmadi
The End of the Rehydration Era - The Problem of Sharing Harmful Twitter Research Data
Dennis Assenmacher, Indira Sen, Leon Fröhling, Claudia Wagner