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The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

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171
accepted papers
645
authors
June 23 - 26, 2025
dates
Denmark
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171 / 171 papers

  1. 1
    "I Don't Think TikTok Really Cares About the Truth: " Experiences of Users Who Are Low Vision or Blind with Misinformation on TikTok
    Filipo Sharevski
    ,
    Aziz Zeidieh
  2. 2
    "I'm Not for Sale" - Perceptions and Limited Awareness of Privacy Risks by Digital Natives About Location Data
    Antoine Boutet
    ,
    Victor Morel
  3. 3
    "Reasoning" with Rhetoric: On the Style-Evidence Tradeoff in LLM-Generated Counter-Arguments
    Preetika Verma
    ,
    Kokil Jaidka
    ,
    Svetlana Churina
  4. 4
    A Benchmark for Cross-Domain Argumentative Stance Classification on Social Media
    Jiaqing Yuan
    ,
    Ruijie Xi
    ,
    Munindar P. Singh
  5. 5
    A Dataset for Analysing News Framing in Chinese Media
    Owen Cook
    ,
    Yida Mu
    ,
    Xinye Yang
    ,
    Xingyi Song
    ,
    Kalina Bontcheva
  6. 6
    A Growing Sense of Alienation: Spirals of Silence and Suppression of Structural Circumstances of Suicide in News
    Jasmine C. Foriest
    ,
    Mini Jain
    ,
    Benjamin D. Horne
    ,
    Munmun De Choudhury
  7. 7
    A Multimodal Prompt-based Framework for Analyzing Code-Mixed and Low-Resource Memes
    Surendrabikram Thapa
    ,
    Hariram Veeramani
    ,
    Liang Hu
    ,
    Qi Zhang
    ,
    Wei Wang
    ,
    Usman Naseem
  8. 8
    A Sticker is Worth a Thousand Words: Characterizing the Use and Abuse of Stickers on WhatsApp Political Groups in Brazil
    Philipe de Freitas Melo
    ,
    Daniel Kansaon
    ,
    João M. M. Couto
    ,
    Julio C. S. Reis
    ,
    Fabrício Benevenuto
  9. 9
    A Study of Training Strategies on Enhancing Human Detection of AI-Synthesized Faces
    Ester Chen
    ,
    Haeseung Seo
    ,
    Margie Ruffin
    ,
    Dongwon Lee
    ,
    Gang Wang
    ,
    Aiping Xiong
  10. 10
    A Telegram Dataset of Propaganda and its Moderation
    Klim Kireev
    ,
    Yevhen Mykhno
    ,
    Carmela Troncoso
    ,
    Rebekah Overdorf
  11. 11
    Adopting Beliefs or Superficial Mimicry? Investigating Nuanced Ideological Manipulation of LLMs
    Demetris Paschalides
    ,
    George Pallis
    ,
    Marios D. Dikaiakos
  12. 12
    Algorithmic Behaviors Across Regions: A Geolocation Audit of YouTube Search for COVID-19 Misinformation Between the United States and South Africa
    Hayoung Jung
    ,
    Prerna Juneja
    ,
    Tanushree Mitra
  13. 13
    Analyzing Digital Polarization on Hijab: A Dataset of Annotated YouTube Comments
    Heba Al Heraki
    ,
    Wajdi Zaghouani
  14. 14
    Analyzing Offensive Content and Emotional Dynamics in Black Lives Matter Discourse on Twitter
    Ebuka Okpala
    ,
    Long Cheng
    ,
    Kehinde Elelu
  15. 15
    Analyzing Reddit Stories of Sexual Violence: Incidents, Effects, and Requests for Advice
    Vaibhav Garg
    ,
    Hannah Javidi
    ,
    Jiaqing Yuan
    ,
    Ruijie Xi
    ,
    Munindar P. Singh
  16. 16
    AOTree: Aspect Order Tree-Based Model for Explainable Recommendation
    Wenxin Zhao
    ,
    Peng Zhang
    ,
    Hansu Gu
    ,
    Dongsheng Li
    ,
    Tun Lu
    ,
    Ning Gu
  17. 17
    ArDia: Improving Arabic Dialectal Language Classification Using a Novel Dataset
    Hossam Elsafty
    ,
    Bouthaina Abdou
    ,
    Tobias Deußer
    ,
    Maren Pielka
    ,
    Christian Bauckhage
    ,
    Rafet Sifa
  18. 18
    Auditing Yelp's Business Ranking and Review Recommendation Through the Lens of Fairness
    Mohit Singhal
    ,
    Javier Pacheco
    ,
    Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi
    ,
    Tanusree Debi
    ,
    Abolfazl Asudeh
    ,
    Gautam Das
    ,
    Shirin Nilizadeh
  19. 19
    Avatar Communication Provides More Efficient Online Social Support Than Text Communication
    Masanori Takano
    ,
    Kenji Yokotani
    ,
    Takahiro Kato
    ,
    Nobuhito Abe
    ,
    Fumiaki Taka
  20. 20
    Balancing Producer Fairness and Efficiency via Prior-Weighted Rating System Design
    Thomas Ma
    ,
    Michael S. Bernstein
    ,
    Ramesh Johari
    ,
    Nikhil Garg
  21. 21
    Bike Frames: Understanding the Implicit Portrayal of Cyclists in the News
    Xingmeng Zhao
    ,
    Daniel Schumacher
    ,
    Sashank Nalluri
    ,
    Suhana Shrestha
    ,
    Xavier Walton
    ,
    Anthony Rios
  22. 22
    Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs
    Leonhard Balduf
    ,
    Saidu Sokoto
    ,
    Andrea Baronchelli
    ,
    Ignacio Castro
    ,
    Michal Król
    ,
    Gareth Tyson
    ,
    George Pavlou
    ,
    Björn Scheuermann
    ,
    Onur Ascigil
  23. 23
    Bridging Social Media and Search Engines: Dredge Words and the Detection of Unreliable Domains
    Evan M. Williams
    ,
    Peter Carragher
    ,
    Kathleen M. Carley
  24. 24
    Can't Stop Scrolling: Understanding the Online Behavioral Factors and Trends of Short-Video Addiction
    Jing Yi Wang
    ,
    Nicholas Sukiennik
    ,
    Jinghua Piao
    ,
    Zhiqiang Pan
    ,
    Chen Gao
    ,
    Yong Li
  25. 25
    Can-PolNews: A Multi-Platform Dataset of Political Discourse in Canada
    Zeynep Pehlivan
    ,
    Saewon Park
    ,
    Alexei Sisulu Abrahams
    ,
    Mika Jacques Patel Desblancs
    ,
    Benjamin David Steel
    ,
    Aengus Bridgman
  26. 26
    Cannabis Use During Pregnancy: Insights from Online Discourse and Socioeconomic Indicators Across the USA and Canada
    Lisette Espín-Noboa
    ,
    Nikou Farsiu
    ,
    Márton Karsai
    ,
    Daniel J. Corsi
  27. 27
    Capturing Dynamics in Online Public Discourse: A Case Study of Universal Basic Income Discussions on Reddit
    Rachel Minyoung Kim
    ,
    Veniamin Veselovsky
    ,
    Ashton Anderson
  28. 28
    Changes in YouTube's Content Moderation Policy Had Little Detectable Impact on Election Denial Content
    Nilima Pisharody
    ,
    Sean T. Norton
    ,
    Kevin T. Greene
    ,
    Jacob N. Shapiro
  29. 29
    Characterizing Knowledge Manipulation in a Russian Wikipedia Fork
    Mykola Trokhymovych
    ,
    Oleksandr Kosovan
    ,
    Nathan Forrester
    ,
    Pablo Aragón
    ,
    Diego Sáez-Trumper
    ,
    Ricardo Baeza-Yates
  30. 30
    ClipMind: A Framework for Auditing Short-Format Video Recommendations Using Multimodal AI Models
    Aoyu Gong
    ,
    Sepehr Mousavi
    ,
    Yiting Xia
    ,
    Savvas Zannettou
  31. 31
    Clustering Internet Memes Through Template Matching and Multi-Dimensional Similarity
    Tygo Bloem
    ,
    Filip Ilievski
  32. 32
    Contrastive Instruction Fine-Tuning Large Multimodal Model for Hateful Meme Classification
    Ming Shan Hee
    ,
    Zihan Gao
    ,
    Yinglong Wang
    ,
    Xiangxiang Chu
    ,
    Roy Ka-Wei Lee
    ,
    Zengchang Qin
  33. 33
    Conversation Kernels: A Flexible Mechanism to Learn Relevant Context for Online Conversation Understanding
    Vibhor Agarwal
    ,
    Arjoo Gupta
    ,
    Suparna De
    ,
    Nishanth Sastry
  34. 34
    Coordinated Reply Attacks in Influence Operations: Characterization and Detection
    Manita Pote
    ,
    Tugrulcan Elmas
    ,
    Alessandro Flammini
    ,
    Filippo Menczer
  35. 35
    Cross-Partisan Interactions on Twitter
    Yusuf Mücahit Çetinkaya
    ,
    Vahid Ghafouri
    ,
    Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
    ,
    Jose Such
    ,
    Tugrulcan Elmas
  36. 36
    Cyber Food Swamps: Investigating the Impacts of Online-to-Offline Food Delivery Platforms on Healthy Food Choices
    Yunke Zhang
    ,
    Yiran Fan
    ,
    Peijie Liu
    ,
    Fengli Xu
    ,
    Yong Li
  37. 37
    Deceptive Sound Therapy on Online Platforms: Do Mental Wellbeing Tracks Conform to User Expectations?
    Arjun Arunasalam
    ,
    Jason Tong
    ,
    Habiba Farrukh
    ,
    Muslum Ozgur Ozmen
    ,
    Koustuv Saha
    ,
    Z. Berkay Celik
  38. 38
    Demystifying Hateful Content: Leveraging Large Multimodal Models for Hateful Meme Detection with Explainable Decisions
    Ming Shan Hee
    ,
    Roy Ka-Wei Lee
  39. 39
    Detecting Harassment and Defamation in Cyberbullying with Emotion-Adaptive Training
    Peiling Yi
    ,
    Arkaitz Zubiaga
    ,
    Yunfei Long
  40. 40
    Differentiating Emigration from Return Migration of Scholars Using Name-Based Nationality Detection Models
    Faeze Ghorbanpour
    ,
    Thiago Zordan Malaguth
    ,
    Aliakbar Akbaritabar
  41. 41
    Discovering Latent Themes in Social Media Messaging: A Machine-in-the-Loop Approach Integrating LLMs
    Tunazzina Islam
    ,
    Dan Goldwasser
  42. 42
    Disruptions in Music Listening Behaviors During Lockdowns
    Pierre Gallinari Safar
    ,
    Laetitia Gauvin
    ,
    Thomas Louail
  43. 43
    Do Bots Do It Better? Analyzing the Effectiveness of Automated Agents in State-Sponsored Information Operations
    Cole Polychronis
    ,
    Marina Kogan
  44. 44
    Does Content Moderation Lead Users Away from Fringe Movements? Evidence from a Recovery Community
    Giuseppe Russo
    ,
    Maciej Styczen
    ,
    Manoel Horta Ribeiro
    ,
    Robert West
  45. 45
    Does the Source of a Warning Matter? Examining the Effectiveness of Veracity Warning Labels Across Warners
    Benjamin D. Horne
  46. 46
    Dynamics of Language Change: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Language in an Online Transgender Community
    Cedar Brown
    ,
    Lal Zimman
    ,
    Simon Todd
  47. 47
    Effects of Research Paper Promotion via ArXiv and X
    Chhandak Bagchi
    ,
    Eric Malmi
    ,
    Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz
  48. 48
    Election Polls on Social Media: Prevalence, Biases, and Voter Fraud Beliefs
    Stephen Scarano
    ,
    Vijayalakshmi Vasudevan
    ,
    Mattia Samory
    ,
    Kai-Cheng Yang
    ,
    JungHwan Yang
    ,
    Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz
  49. 49
    Elephant in the Room: Dissecting and Reflecting on the Evolution of Online Social Network Research
    Luca Pajola
    ,
    Saskia Laura Schröer
    ,
    Pier Paolo Tricomi
    ,
    Mauro Conti
    ,
    Giovanni Apruzzese
  50. 50
    Emojis Decoded: Leveraging ChatGPT for Enhanced Understanding in Social Media Communications
    Yuhang Zhou
    ,
    Paiheng Xu
    ,
    Xiyao Wang
    ,
    Xuan Lu
    ,
    Ge Gao
    ,
    Wei Ai