And ... comp.social just said the quiet part out loud ... I'm glad #AI is becoming more human-centered, but am concerned that many are "reinventing the wheel" of #HCI methods, and there is a vocab mismatch between the communities... arxiv.org/pdf/2405.03699

🚨CAN GENERATIVE AI IMPROVE SOCIAL SCIENCE?🚨 I spent the last year trying to answer this question with the help of some very thoughtful reviewers (and editors) for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (ungated) : pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Kicking off the 'LLMs as Research Tools' workshop at #CHI2024! Join us in room 306A Marianne Aubin Le Quéré @mariannealq.bsky.social Hope Schroeder @jie_gao_056 Zivvy Ξpstein Simon Perrault David Mimno Elena Glassman barkhuus @hanlinlil1578

That’s a wrap on the LLMs as Research Tools workshop at #CHI2024! Huge TY to our AMAZING participants for making today such a success Marianne Aubin Le Quéré @mariannealq.bsky.social Hope Schroeder @jie_gao_056 Zivvy Ξpstein Simon Perrault David Mimno Elena Glassman barkhuus @hanlinlil1578

🚨 New paper 🚨 We analyzed the DNR survey data from 46 countries (N = 500k) and found that news participation has declined between 2015-2022📉 The only form of participation that has steadily increased is news sharing via messaging apps👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… 🔓

🔥 Fantastic talk by Sharon Heung at #CHI2024 presenting a taxonomy of ableist hate that disabled content creators face online and how their experiences with abuse and hate are critically underrepresented in abuse literature. Paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

This ICWSM paper found that websites that systematically posted misinformation disproportionally used LLMs to create content. ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWS…

New in nature: Misunderstanding the harms of online misinfo nature.com/articles/s4158… Debunks unsupported claims about social media exposure/effects and shows low exposure concentrated in motivated fringe. We recommend holding platforms accountable for exposure in high-risk tails

Exited to announce Media Cloud online news archive has been funded by the NSF as a piece of critical public data infrastructure 🎉 Data re-ingestion, coalition building, new search features, formalized governance, & more coming over the next 2 years. mediacloud.org/blog/nsf-grant

🚨New today in PNASNews ‼️w/ @helenmargetts: In a pre-registered experiment (n=8,587), we find little evidence that 1:1 personalization — aka microtargeting — enhances the persuasive influence of political messages generated by GPT-4.  pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…  1/7 👇🏼

.CSSLab at Penn, led by Prof. Duncan Watts has a launched a new resource for understanding media dynamics - a data dashboard on news consumption in the U.S. Explore trends, track shifts, & stay informed about the evolving landscape of information dissemination: bit.ly/4cdXbnt

Queer in AI is deeply concerned that the draft AI guidance from NIST "Managing Misuse Risk for Dual-Use Foundation Models" deprioritizes discriminiation, bias, misinfo, and other risks and relies on foundation model devs regulating themselves, sidelining gov and civil society 1/

🚨 New in Nature Communications! While many studies show that negativity drives online virality, we find that predictors of what people like and share can change over time, with ingroup solidarity showing significant viral potential during the war in Ukraine. (1/6) nature.com/articles/s4146…

Local news is dying to create news deserts in communities that are more racially diverse and have growing populations, with partisanship of the community not playing a role, finds Youran Abby QIN in JMCQ using geospatial analysis doi.org/10.1177/107769…

✨I’m on the academic job market!✨ I'm a CS Postdoc at Stanford in the Stanford NLP Group. I develop AI and causal inference to tackle societal issues like online civility, racial justice, sustainability, and more. Check out the thread for details! Website: kristinagligoric.com

I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 at Princeton to work on Comp Social Science/Societal Impact of GenAI/GenAI for SocSci I wrote a bit about my research flavor & interests here: manoelhortaribeiro.github.io/advising Deadline: December 15th (cs.princeton.edu/grad#prospecti…) Please boost!

**NEW PAPER** How are communities across Reddit adapting to the presence of AI-generated content (AIGC)? We perform a large-scale analysis of community rules to find out. More here: hci.social/@travislloyd/1…

John Wihbey kicking start the 2024 Computation + Journalism Symposium here at Northeastern U.

I enjoyed sharing my thoughts in nature News on fascinating research revealing how we explore Wikipedia through distinct curiosity styles. This has strong implications for modeling information-seeking and enhancing platform design! nature.com/articles/d4158…

📢📢I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 to join my research lab at Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan! Interested in doing research in social computing systems? Consider applying! 📢📢 cse.engin.umich.edu/academics/grad…