Paper Sessions

All times shown are GMT+1/UTC+1 (British Summer Time)

All awards are listed below next to the relevant papers. Congratulations to all of the winners.

Paper Session 1: Does the system work? Evaluating Tools and Functions

Wednesday 23 June, 16:45 – 18:15

Session Chair: Maria Glenski

The influence of search engine optimization on Google’s results: A multi-dimensional approach for detecting SEO
Dirk Lewandowski, Sebastian Sünkler and Nurce Yagci
Measuring Digital Literacy with Eye Tracking: An examination of skills and performance based on user gaze
Nili Steinfeld, Azi Lev-On and Hama Abu-Kishk
Towards a Novel Benchmark for ClaimReviewed and ReviewRating Prediction in Fact-checking Articles
Vinicius Woloszyn, Eduardo Gabriel Cortes, Rafael Amantea, Vera Schmitt, Dante Augusto Couto Barone and Sebastian Möller
Automatically Selecting Striking Images for Social Cards
Shawn Jones, Michele Weigle, Martin Klein and Michael Nelson
Limiting Tags Fosters Efficiency
Tiago Santos, Keith Burghardt, Kristina Lerman and Denis Helic

Wednesday 23 June, 19:45 – 21:15

Session Chair: Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda

On the conditions for integrating deep learning into the study of visual politics
Matteo Magnani and Alexandra Segerberg
Auditing Algorithmic Bias on Twitter
Nathan Bartley, Andres Abeliuk, Emilio Ferrara and Kristina Lerman
Improving Reactions to Rejection in Crowdsourcing Through Self-Reflection
Tom Edixhoven, Sihang Qiu, Lucie Kuiper, Olivier Dikken, Gwennan Smitskamp and Ujwal Gadiraju
Trick and Please. A Mixed-Method Study On User Assumptions About the TikTok Algorithm
Daniel Klug, Yiluo Qin, Morgan Evans and Geoff Kaufman
NetProtect: Network Perturbations to Protect Nodes against Entry-Point Attack
Ricky Laishram, Pegah Hozhabrierdi, Jeremy Wendt and Sucheta Soundarajan

Thursday 24 June, 09:00 – 10:30

Session Chair: Stefan Dietze

Social Science for Natural Language Processing: A Hostile Narrative Analysis Prototype

Best Student Paper Honourable Mention

Stephen Anning, George Konstantinidis and Craig Webber
fastText-based methods for Emotion Identification in Russian Internet Discourse
Alexander Babii, Marina Kazyulina and Alexey Malafeev
You’d Better Stop! Understanding Human Reliance on Machine Learning Models under Covariate Shift
Chun-Wei Chiang and Ming Yin
Efficient Detection of Multilingual Hate Speech by Using Interactive Attention Network with Minimal Human Feedback
Fedor Vitiugin, Yasas Senarath and Hemant Purohit

Thursday 24 June, 11:00 – 12:30

Session Chair: Enrico Mariconti

Are Anti-Feminist Communities Gateways to the Far Right? Evidence from Reddit and YouTube
Robin Mamié, Manoel Horta Ribeiro and Robert West
“Subverting the Jewtocracy”: Online Antisemitism Detection Using Multimodal Deep Learning
Mohit Chandra, Dheeraj Pailla, Himanshu Bhatia, Aadilmehdi Sanchawala, Manish Gupta, Manish Shrivastava and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
Monetizing Propaganda: How Far-right Extremists Earn Money by Video Streaming

ACM Best Paper

Megan Squire
The Rise and Fall of Fake News sites: A Traffic Analysis
Manolis Chalkiadakis, Alexandros Kornilakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Evangelos Markatos and Nicolas Kourtellis
Fighting Against Fake News During Pandemic Era: Does Providing Related News Help Student Internet Users to Detect COVID-19 Misinformation?
Borhan Uddin, Nahid Reza, Md Saiful Islam, Hasib Ahsan and Mohammad Ruhul Amin

Thursday 24 June, 15:45 – 17:15

Session Chair: Ingmar Weber

Understanding the Effect of Deplatforming on Social Networks
Shiza Ali, Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Esraa Aldreabi, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou and Gianluca Stringhini
Mainstream Consensus and the Expansive Fringe: Characterizing the Polarized Information Ecosystems of Online Climate Change Discourse
Joshua Uyheng, Aman Tyagi and Kathleen M. Carley
Drivers of Polarized Discussions on Twitter during Venezuela Political Crisis
Sameera Horawalavithana, Kin Wai Ng and Adriana Iamnitchi
Analysis and Prediction of Multilingual Controversy on Reddit

Best Student Paper

Philipp Koncar, Simon Walk and Denis Helic
A Look into COVID-19 Vaccination Debate on Twitter
Larissa Gomes, Julia Stancioli, Carlos Ferreira, Marisa Vasconcelos, Ana Paula Couto da Silva and Jussara Almeida

Friday 25 June, 10:15 – 11:45

Session Chair: Luca Maria Aiello

CCCC: Corralling Cookies into Categories with CookieMonster
Xuehui Hu, Nishanth Sastry and Mainack Mondal
AAA: Fair Evaluation for Abuse Detection Systems Wanted
Agostina Calabrese, Michele Bevilacqua, Björn Ross, Rocco Tripodi and Roberto Navigli
Wide-AdGraph: Detecting Ad Trackers with a Wide Dependency Chain Graph
Best Student Paper Honourable Mention

Amir Hossein Kargaran, Mohammad Sadegh Akhondzadeh, Mohammad Reza Heidarpour, Mohammad Hossein Manshaei, Kave Salamatian and Masoud Nejad Sattary
Social acceptability of personal data utilization business according to data controllers and purposes
Soichiro Morishita, Masanori Takano, Hideaki Takeda, Faiza Mahdaoui, Fumiaki Taka and Yuki Ogawa
YouTubing at Home: Media Sharing Behavior Change as Proxy for Mobility Around COVID-19 Lockdowns
Yelena Mejova and Nicolas Kourtellis

Friday 25 June, 12:30 – 14:00

Session Chair: Yelena Mejova

Is this a click towards diversity? Explaining when and why users make diverse choices
Felicia Loecherbach, Kasper Welbers, Judith Moeller, Damian Trilling and Wouter Van Atteveldt
An Analysis of Web Tracking Domains in Mobile Applications
Brian Krupp, Joshua Hadden and Malik Matthews
Differential Tracking Across Topical Webpages of Indian News Media
Yash Vekaria, Vibhor Agarwal, Pushkal Agarwal, Sangeeta Mahapatra, Sakthi Balan Muthiah, Nishanth Sastry and Nicolas Kourtellis
A Bayesian Analysis of Collective Action and Internet Shutdowns in India between 2016 and 2019
Michael Collyer and Joss Wright
Understanding Internet Censorship in Europe: The Case of Spain
Vasilis Ververis, Tatiana Ermakova, Marios Isaakidis, Simone Basso, Benjamin Fabian and Stefania Milan