Proceedings of the ICWSM Workshops

Workshop Proceedings of the 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

3 June, 2024, Buffalo, New York, USA

Workshop Chairs
Maria Antoniak (Allen Institute for AI)
Anjalie Field (Johns Hopkins University)
James Caverlee (Texas A&M University)

This issue of the ICWSM Workshop Proceedings contains papers published at the workshops held on June 3rd, 2024 at the 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2024).

Published: 2024-06-01

ICWSM General Reports

Towards A Diverse, Inclusive, Accessible and Equitable AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM): ICWSM's 2024 DEI Report
Kokil Jaidka, Cody Buntain, Jeremy Blackburn, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, Salomey Osei, Sarah Shugars, Jason Jones, Yini Zhang, Jason R.C. Nurse, Ceren Budak, Daniel Romero, Em?ke-Ágnes Horvát, Anikó H

CySoc 2024: 5th International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats

Detecting and Characterizing Inorganic User Engagement on YouTube
Oluwaseyi Adeliyi, Ishmam Solaiman, Shadi Shajari, Ugochukwu Onyepunuka, Nitin Agarwal
SEIQR: An Epidemiological Model to Contain the Spread of Toxicity using Memory-Index
Emmanuel Addai, Niloofar Yousefi, Nitin Agarwal
Hater Is Not the Only Source of Toxic Communication Online, But Also Fan
Akira Matsui, Taichi Murayama, Mitsuo Yoshida
Toxic Synergy Between Hate Speech and Fake News Exposure
Munjung Kim, Tugrulcan Elmas, Filippo Menczer
Tad: Generalized Transformer-Based Domain-Aware Hate Speech Detection
Ruijie Xi, Jiaqing Yuan, Munindar P. Singh
Are Large Language Models Good at Detecting Propaganda?
Julia Jose, Rachel Greenstadt
A Dataset of Podcasts from Rumble Spanning 2020 to 2022
Utkucan Balci, Jay Patel, Berkan Balci, Jeremy Blackburn
A Data-Driven Analysis of Sovereign Citizens Movement on Telegram
Satrio Yudhoatmojo, Utkucan Balci, Jeremy Blackburn
Blended Bots: Infiltration through Identity Deception on Social Media
Samantha C. Phillips, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
An Integrated Platform for Online Abuse Research
Mohammed Aldeen, Pranav Silimkhan, Ethan Anderson, Taran Kavuru, Tsu-Yao Chang, Jin Ma, Feng Luo, Hongxin Hu, Long Cheng
Large Language Models Reveal Information Operation Goals, Tactics, and Narrative Frames
Keith Burghardt, Kai Chen, Kristina Lerman
Auditing Exposure Bias on Social Media for a Healthier Online Discourse
Nathan Bartley, Keith Burghardt, Kristina Lerman

Disrupt, Ally, Resist, Embrace (DARE) 2024: Action Items for Computational Social Scientists in a Changing World

Fighting Bias in the 2023-2024 Hamas-Israel Conflict
Avi Rosenfeld
Can Social Media Platforms Transcend Political Labels? An Analysis of Neutral Conservations on Truth Social
Chaitya Shah, Ritesh Konka, Gautam Malpani, Swapneel Mehta, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng
Embedding Privacy in Computational Social Science and Artificial Intelligence Research
Keenan Jones, Fatima Zahrah, Jason R.C. Nurse
WEIRD ICWSM: How Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic is Social Computing Research?
Ali Akbar Septiandri, Marios Constantinides, Daniele Quercia

Data for the Wellbeing of Most Vulnerable

International Workshop on Data for the Wellbeing of Most Vulnerable at ICWSM 2024
Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Daniela Paolotti
A comparison of online search engine autocompletion in Google and Baidu
Geng Liu, Pietro Pinoli, Stefano Ceri, Francesco Pierri
Euphoria's Hidden Voices: Examining Emotional Resonance and Shared Substance Use Experience of Viewers on Reddit
Layla Bouzoubaa, Rezvaneh Rezapour
Hidden in Plain Sight: Exploring the Intersections of Mental Health, Eating Disorders, and Content Moderation on TikTok
Charles Bickham, Kia Kazemi-Nia, Luca Luceri, Kristina Lerman, Emilio Ferrara
Online search is more likely to lead youth to validate true news than to refute false ones
Azza Bouleimen, Luca Luceri, Felipe Cardoso, Luca Botturi, Martin Hermida, Loredana Addimando, Chiara Beretta, Marzia Galloni, Silvia Giordano
Unraveling Code-Mixing Patterns in Migration Discourse: Automated Detection and Analysis of Online Conversations on Reddit
Fedor Vitiugin, Sunok Lee, Henna Paakki, Anastasiia Chizhikova, Nitin Sawhney
Computing Vulnerability: Recommendations for Supporting the Emotional Wellbeing of Computational Researchers
Dylan Thomas Doyle
Tracing the Unseen: Uncovering Human Trafficking Patterns in Job Listings
Siyi Zhou, Jiankun Peng, Emilio Ferrara
Fighting for Democracy: The Attempted Coup in Peru through the lens of TikTok
Gabriela Pinto, Keith Burghardt, Kristina Lerman, Emilio Ferrara

REAL-Info 2024: First Workshop on Reliable Evaluation of LLMs for Factual Information

Using GPT-4 for Text Analysis: Insights from English and German Language News Classification Tasks
Viktor Suter, Miriam Meckel
Stylometric Comparison between ChatGPT and Human Essays
Sheng Wang, Nello Cristianini, Bruce Hood
Do LLMs Find Human Answers To Fact-Driven Questions Perplexing? A Case Study on Reddit
Parker Seegmiller, Joseph Gatto, Omar Sharif, Madhusudan Basak, Sarah Masud Preum

DeWeb 2024: 1st International Workshop on Decentralizing the Web

SMI-5: Five Dimensions of Social Media Interaction for Platform (De)Centralization
Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Samantha C. Phillips, Kathleen M. Carley
Truthiness and Activity Counts: The Challenges and Opportunities of Enumerating Behavior in Decentralized Social Media
Matthew N. Nicholson, Casey Fiesler, Brian C. Keegan
Do Servers Matter on Mastodon? Data-driven Design for Decentralized Social Media
Carl Colglazier
Exploring Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: An Analysis of Lemmygrad.ml
Utkucan Balci, Michael Sirivianos, Jeremy Blackburn

NOCAPS 2024 - Networks and Opinions on Climate Action in the Public Sphere

Detecting statements in text: a domain-agnostic few-shots solution
Sandrine Chausson, Björn Ross
EVO-LYZER: Social Media Mining System for Evolving Communication Behavior Analytics to Aid Climate Change Programs
Yasas Wijesuriya, Amanda Borth, Edward Maibach, Hemant Purohit
Exploring Climate Change Discourse: Measurements and Analysis of Reddit Data
Smriti Janaswamy, Jeremy Blackburn

Digital State Sponsored Disinformation and Propaganda: Challenges and Opportunities

Detecting Cultural Differences in News Video Thumbnails via Computational Aesthetics
Marvin Limpijankit, John Kender
I've Seen That Before! Towards Understanding Hard News Exposure from Soft News Outlets
Jason Yan, Tong Lin, Yanna Krupnikov, Kerri Milita, Sabina Tomkins
DET: Detection Evasion Techniques of State-Sponsored Accounts
Charity Jacobs, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
Modes of analyzing disinformation with AI/ML/text mining to assist in mitigating the weaponization of social media
Andy Skumanich, Han Kyul Kim
Elevating GraphSAGE for Covertness: A Strategic Approach to Unmasking Fake Reviews in E-Commerce
Abhay Narayan, Dameera Tharun, Madhu Kuma S. D., Anu Chacko
AI Optimism, Pessimism, or Indifference? Challenges of Combating AI-Made Misinformation Under Mixed Perceptions of AI
Yuya Shibuya, Tomoka Nakazato, Soichiro Takagi
Slovakia as the Precursor to Deepfake-Enabled Election Interference: Lessons Learned and Pathways Forward
Matyas Bohacek
LLM Agent for Disinformation Detection Based on DISARM Framework
Kevin Tseng, Man-Kwan Shan
Exploring Russian Anti-War Discourse on Twitter during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Dynamics, Influence, and Narratives
Iuliia Alieva, Kathleen M Carley

ICWSM 2024 Data Challenge: Research Data in a Post-API, Decentralized, and Walled Garden Web

Crowdsourcing and Snowball Sampling: Addressing Challenges in Data Collection from Social Media and News Platforms
Iain Cruickshank, Ian Kloo
Overcoming Social Media API Restrictions: Building an Effective Web Scraper
Nicholas Harrell, Iain Cruickshank, Alexander Master
Introduction to National Internet Observatory
Alvaro Feal, Jeffrey Gleason, Pranav Goel, Jason Radford, Kai-Cheng Yang, John Basl, Michelle Meyer, David Choffnes, Christo Wilson, David Lazer
How Decentralization Affects User Agency on Social Platforms
Aditya Surve, Aneesh Shamraj, Swapneel Mehta

Digital Recovery, AI & Mitigating Harm in Social Media Workshop

Reclaiming the Narrative: Digital Recovery, AI & Mitigating Harm in Social Media Workshop at ICWSM 2024
Rezvaneh Rezapour, Layla Bouzoubaa, Steven R. Wilson