We’re excited to announce that researchers at the Observatory on Social Media and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research will present 26 papers at various conferences over the summer.

Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)

• Zoher Kachwala, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Filippo Menczer: REMATCH: Robust and efficient matching of local knowledge graphs to improve structural and semantic similarity

International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)

• Full paper
  • Kai-Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer: Anatomy of an AI-powered malicious social botnet
• 5th International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc)
  • Munjung Kim, Tuğrulcan Elmas, and Filippo Menczer: Toxic synergy between hate speech and fake news exposure

Network Science Conference (NetSci)

• Oral presentation
  • Attila Varga, Sadamori Kojaku, Filipi Nascimento Silva: Measuring research interest distances with transition probabilities
• Posters
  • Govind Gandhi, Yong-Yeol Ahn, and Sadamori Kojaku: Self-supervised modularity maximization using graph embeddings for clustering
  • Filipi Nascimento Silva, Samin Aref, Santo Fortunato, and Vincent Traag: Modularity optimization with size constraints for community detection

International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)

• Plenary talks
  • Kai-Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer: Anatomy of an AI-powered malicious social botnet
  • Byunghwee Lee, Rachith Aiyappa, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An: Neural embedding of beliefs reveals the role of relative dissonance in human decision-making
• Oral presentations
  • Matthew DeVerna, Francesco Pierri, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Santo Fortunato, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer: Misinformed populations amplify the spread of disease
  • Kai-Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer: Can large language models rate news outlet credibility?
  • Jin Ai, Filipi Nascimento Silva: Network approach to research novelty: Typology and metrics
  • Saumya Bhadani, Brendan J. Nyhan, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Filippo Menczer, Alessandro Flammini: Building a trustworthy social media news feed
  • Munjung Kim, Sadamori Kojaku, and Yong-Yeol Ahn: A continuous embedding measure of disruptiveness reveals hidden simultaneous disruption
• Posters
  • Ozgur Can Seckin, Ege Otenen, Danny Valdez, Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, Johan Bollen: Quantifying the digital phenotype of loneliness on Twitter
  • Matthew DeVerna, Francesco Pierri, Rachith Aiyappa, Diogo Pacheco, John Bryden, Filippo Menczer: Information diffusion assumptions can misshape our understanding of social networks
  • Matthew DeVerna, Harry Yajoun Yan, Kai-Cheng Yang, Filippo Menczer: Fact-checking information generated by a large language Model can decrease news discernment
  • Kai-Cheng Yang, Danishjeet Singh, Filippo Menczer: Characteristics and prevalence of fake social media profiles with AI-generated faces
  • Jin Ai, Filipi Nascimento Silva: Mapping philanthropic studies using natural language processing
  • Filipi Nascimento Silva: Identifying emerging trends: Leveraging LLMs and visualization for narrative analysis in social media data
  • Bao T. Truong, Sangyeon Kim, Filippo Menczer: Quantifying the effects of time delay in illegal content takedown
  • Do Won Kim, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Brendan J. Nyhan, Filippo Menczer, Maria Elizabeth Grabe, Ro'ee Levy: Muting low-quality sources: A field experiment to mitigate the harm of inaccurate information online
• Tutorial
  • Filipi Nascimento Silva, Kaicheng Yang, Bao Tran Truong, Wanying Zhao: Exploring emerging social media: Acquiring, processing, and visualizing data with Python and OSoMe web tools

International Conference on Science of Science and Innovation (ICSSI)

• Oral presentations
  • Sadamori Kojaku, Attila Varga, Filipi Nascimento Silva, Clara Boothby, Xiaoran Yan, Stasa Milojevic, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, Yong-Yeol Ahn: GRaM: A gravity-informed model for tracking scientist mobility in knowledge spaces
  • Filipi Nascimento Silva: Real-time visualization of large networks and embeddings from scholarly datasets using Helios-Web
• Posters
  • Jin Ai, Filipi Nascimento Silva: Network approach to research novelty: Typology and metrics
  • Munjung Kim, Sadamori Kojaku, and Yong-Yeol Ahn: A continuous embedding measure of disruptiveness reveals hidden simultaneous disruption