{"title":"Sharing Missing Persons Appeals on Social Media: Assessing Community Engagement on Facebook and Twitter","authors":"Simona Ciobotaru, C. Adams, C. Collie, K. Greene","doi":"10.1145/3510606.3550200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3510606.3550200","url":null,"abstract":"Social media platforms are sometimes used for sharing missing persons appeals and disseminating information about missing person cases, which ensures wide distribution. Previous research regarding the effectiveness of social media based publicity has mainly focused on the use of Twitter [24]. However, missing person appeals are also frequently distributed on Facebook. In this paper, we explored how people engage with missing persons appeals on Facebook and Twitter. We manually web scraped 413 missing person appeals distributed on Twitter and Facebook. Variables collected were missing persons' age, gender, ethnicity, region as well as engagement metrics (e.g., retweets, shares). Overall, the public shared more appeals when they were distributed on Twitter than on Facebook. We found no effect of missing persons' ethnicity on engagement levels on both platforms. These results are discussed in relation to shareworthiness and social media strategies for agencies releasing appeals on social media.","PeriodicalId":166754,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2022 Computers and People Research Conference","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116658945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sebastian Schötteler, Sven Laumer, Heidi Schuhbauer, Leon Müller, Andreas Hahn, Ferdinand Abend, Matthias Viessmann
{"title":"Inferring Information Reception Velocity from Network Positions in Microblogs: A Quantitative Study","authors":"Sebastian Schötteler, Sven Laumer, Heidi Schuhbauer, Leon Müller, Andreas Hahn, Ferdinand Abend, Matthias Viessmann","doi":"10.1145/3510606.3550205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3510606.3550205","url":null,"abstract":"According to social network research, network actors' benefits from being structurally embedded in a social network are not uniform but depend on the actors' specific network positions. This study evaluates whether users who occupy specific positions in a microblog follower network receive information that diffuses through mention and repost ties in the associated microblog faster than users who do not occupy such positions. Specifically, we focus on two network positions related to structural capital: outdegree centrality and structural hole closure. To explore this assumption, we conducted a regression analysis with the help of a large dataset that quantifies the diffusion of news and rumors about the discovery of the Higgs-boson particle on Twitter. Our study reveals that in microblogs, the two aforementioned network positions related to structural capital are associated with faster information reception velocity in microblogs. These findings indicate that network positions typically attributed to structural capital in other social network areas also yield benefits in the context of microblogs. According to our findings, microblog users should build a large network of followed users, preferably from disjunct network clusters.","PeriodicalId":166754,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2022 Computers and People Research Conference","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130935901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: A Qualitative Expert Study on Realistic Application Scenarios and Future Directions","authors":"Lea Reis, C. Maier","doi":"10.1145/3510606.3550209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3510606.3550209","url":null,"abstract":"What can we do to address the rising numbers of people suffering from mental health problems facing the lack of mental health professionals? This study uses 15 qualitative expert interviews to identify six realistic application scenarios for artificial intelligence in mental health that reduce mental health professionals' workload and improve treatment. We classify the application scenarios concerning the type of intelligence they embed (mechanical, analytical, emotional) and the type of task they support (automation, decision support, engagement) to assess their implementation readiness and success. Based on this classification, we develop four application scenarios with the potential for immediate implementation and two possible future directions. Our results contribute to the research stream of artificial intelligence in general and in mental health.1","PeriodicalId":166754,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2022 Computers and People Research Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129486525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uncovering the Necessary Hard- and Soft-Skills to Get IT Personnel Jobs: A Text Mining Approach","authors":"F. Meier, Sven Laumer","doi":"10.1145/3510606.3550213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3510606.3550213","url":null,"abstract":"With digitalization disrupting organizations every day, the necessary skills to get a job in modern societies are changing rapidly. Individuals and educational institutions seek knowledge of what industry demands in terms of hard- and soft-skills to plan their next step in having these skills in their personal or educational portfolio. To find out which hard- and soft-skills play a key role in finding IT personnel jobs, we employ a text mining approach on job advertisement data and generate a framework for IT personnel jobs. After doing some standard preprocessing steps, we use topic modeling to generate our results and map those with the IT personnel framework. Our results show that three competencies' fields are relevant for IT personnel jobs, and hard-and soft-skills play both a major role in those. Depending on which competencies field one wants to explore, we highlighted the most necessary skills that may play a decisive role when applying for a job in that position. Our findings contribute to the stream of literature equipping both educational institutions and individuals with recommendations of the skills to include and focus on regarding IT personnel.","PeriodicalId":166754,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2022 Computers and People Research Conference","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122439442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Firms Deviate from Industry Benchmarks: A Study on IT Human Capital Investment Deviation and Firm Performance","authors":"F. Shapouri, T. Setor, D. Joseph","doi":"10.1145/3510606.3550207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3510606.3550207","url":null,"abstract":"The extant literatures on the resource-based view and knowledge-based view of firms are silent about how IT human capital investment deviation -i.e., underinvestment and overinvestment in IT human capital- implicate firm outcomes. Anchoring our study in the Red Queen competition theory and the theoretical perspectives flowing from the organization resource slack literature, we examine the relationship between IT human capital investment deviation and firm performance. In particular, we hypothesize that IT human capital overinvestment and IT human capital underinvestment are associated with increased and decreased firm performance respectively. We test our hypotheses using a sample of 715,652 firm observations over 9 years. We find a positive relationship between IT human capital overinvestment and firm performance. We do not find evidence for our prediction that IT human capital underinvestment is associated with firm performance losses. The findings of the study have implications for the IT human capital literature.","PeriodicalId":166754,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2022 Computers and People Research Conference","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127345713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Employee Perception of Enforced Telework in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"Caroline Mattes, F. Meier, Sven Laumer","doi":"10.1145/3510606.3551897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3510606.3551897","url":null,"abstract":"Natural catastrophes, human-made disasters, or as most recently pandemics can force governments to impose telework for their citizen. With Twitter data from the Covid-19 time, where telework was required in Great Britain for certain periods, we look at employees' experience of telework. Our preliminary results indicate a more positive perception of telework while it was enforced due to Covid-19 restrictions, compared to a regular telework period. In our future research, we plan to deepen the understanding of the employees' topics of concern and to develop a model explaining how enforcement affects their perception of telework.","PeriodicalId":166754,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2022 Computers and People Research Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132129094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}