Academic Research
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"Reconsidering Tweets: Intervening During Tweet Creation Decreases Offensive Content." Matthew Katsaros, Kathy Yang, and Lauren Fratamico. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. [Computer Science]
"Automated Platform Governance Through Visibility and Scale: On the Transformational Power of AutoModerator." Lucas Wright. Social Media + Society. [Communication].
"Sharing Emotions or/and Making Allies: Emoji’s Interpersonal Function in Chinese Social Media News Comments." Juan He. Social Semiotics. [Linguistics].
"COVID-19 Mask Usage and Social Distancing in Social Media Images: Large-scale Deep Learning Analysis." Asmit Kumar Singh, Paras Mehan, Divyanshu Sharma, Rohan Pandey, Tavpritesh Sethi, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru. MIR Public Health Surveillance. [Public Health].
"Drug, demon, or donut? Theorizing the relationship between social media use, digital well-being and digital disconnection." Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele, Annabell Halfmann, and Edmund W. J. Lee. Current Opinion in Psychology. [Psychology].
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Calls for Proposals
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Combatting Misinformation Proactively. Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation. DEADLINE: April 1, 2022. The Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation will invest up to $300,000 in grant awards to projects that effectively intervene against misinformation and promote healthier information ecosystems.
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Events, Tutorials & Workshops
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"Social Media’s Free Speech Problem.” Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Richard L. Hasen, UC Irvine School of Law. Thursday, March 24, 2022, from 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). The problem of misinformation on social media has ballooned over the last few years, especially in relation to elections - join us for a live discussion with one of the country’s leading experts on election law for a look into how social media companies can solve this problem without shutting down the essential free flow of ideas and opinions.
“Data for Public Good Symposium.” University of Michigan. Thursday, March 24, 2022 - Friday, March 25, 2022. As both consumers and purveyors of information, how we interact with data is ever-evolving. The symposium will showcase many research efforts and university/community partnerships that focus on improving humanity by using data for the public good.
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We would like to thank the S3MC funders for supporting this newsletter, with special thanks to the McCourt School’s Massive Data Institute (MDI) at Georgetown University.
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