Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies最新文献

An Alternative to India's Reservation Policy: A Unified Framework for Rigorous and Adaptive Measurement of Socio-Economic Status 印度保留政策的替代方案:社会经济地位严格和适应性衡量的统一框架

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies Pub Date : 2020-06-15 DOI: 10.1145/3378393.3402240

Dhruv Sinha, Ojas Sahasrabudhe, Dhruv Agarwal, Debayan Gupta

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Can Phones Build Relationships?: A Case Study of a Kenyan Wildlife Conservancy's Community Development 手机能建立人际关系吗?:肯尼亚野生动物保护协会社区发展案例研究

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies Pub Date : 2020-06-15 DOI: 10.1145/3378393.3402279

Matt Ziegler, Morgan Wack, Nancy Ingutia, Ian Muiruri, Nicholas Njogu, Kennedy Muriithi, William Njoroge, James Long, Kurtis Heimerl

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引用次数: 3

RoadCare

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies Pub Date : 2020-06-15 DOI: 10.1145/3378393.3402284

Saurabh Tiwari, Ravi Bhandari, B. Raman

引用次数: 13

Enhancing Seismic Resilience of Water Pipe Networks 提高供水管网的抗震能力

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies Pub Date : 2020-06-15 DOI: 10.1145/3378393.3402246

Taoan Huang, B. Dilkina

引用次数: 3

COVID-19 on Facebook Ads: Competing Agendas around a Public Health Crisis Facebook广告上的COVID-19:围绕公共卫生危机的竞争议程

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies Pub Date : 2020-06-15 DOI: 10.1145/3378393.3402241

Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri

{"title":"COVID-19 on Facebook Ads: Competing Agendas around a Public Health Crisis","authors":"Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri","doi":"10.1145/3378393.3402241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3378393.3402241","url":null,"abstract":"In the age of social media, disasters and epidemics usher not only devastation and affliction in the physical world, but also prompt a deluge of information, opinions, prognoses and advice to billions of internet users. The coronavirus epidemic of 2019-2020, or COVID-19, is no exception, with the World Health Organization warning of a possible 'infodemic' of fake news. In this study, we examine the alternative narratives around the coronavirus outbreak through advertisements promoted on Facebook, the largest social media platform in the US. Using the new Facebook Ads Library, we discover advertisers from public health and non-profit sectors, alongside those from news media, politics, and business, incorporating coronavirus into their messaging and agenda. We find the virus used in political attacks, donation solicitations, business promotion, stock market advice, and animal rights campaigning. Among these, we find several instances of possible misinformation, ranging from bioweapons conspiracy theories to unverifiable claims by politicians, to the sale of face masks which may not necessarily protect the wearer. As we make the dataset available to the community, we hope the advertising domain will become an important part of quality control for public health communication and public discourse in general.","PeriodicalId":176951,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126003560","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}

引用次数: 36

Can crowdsourcing create the missing crash data? 众包能创造缺失的坠机数据吗?

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies Pub Date : 2020-06-15 DOI: 10.1145/3378393.3402264

S. Milusheva, R. Marty, Guadalupe Bedoya, Elizabeth Resor, Sarah Williams, Arianna Legovini

引用次数: 4

Practitioners and ICTD: Communities of Practice Theory in Technology Interventionism 实践者与ICTD:技术干预主义的实践理论共同体

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies Pub Date : 2020-06-15 DOI: 10.1145/3378393.3402271

Anthony Poon

引用次数: 4

Approaches to Understanding Indigenous Content Production on Wikipedia 理解维基百科本地内容生产的方法

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies Pub Date : 2020-06-15 DOI: 10.1145/3378393.3402249

Manasvini Sethuraman, Rebecca E. Grinter, E. Zegura

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The Role of In-Group Bias and Balanced Data: A Comparison of Human and Machine Recidivism Risk Predictions 群体内偏见和平衡数据的作用:人类和机器再犯风险预测的比较

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies Pub Date : 2020-06-15 DOI: 10.1145/3378393.3402507

Arpita Biswas, M. Kołczyńska, Saana Rantanen, Polina Rozenshtein

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引用次数: 8

The effect of urban infrastructure development on female labour force participation among the poor and middle class in India 城市基础设施发展对印度贫困和中产阶级女性劳动力参与的影响

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies Pub Date : 2020-06-15 DOI: 10.1145/3378393.3402234

Ahalya Ramanathan, S. Paul

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