Rachel Winter, Steven R. Scheinert, Mel Stanfill, Anastasia Salter, Olivia B. Newton, Jihye Song, S. Fiore, W. Rand, I. Garibay
{"title":"A Taxonomy of User Actions on Social Networking Sites","authors":"Rachel Winter, Steven R. Scheinert, Mel Stanfill, Anastasia Salter, Olivia B. Newton, Jihye Song, S. Fiore, W. Rand, I. Garibay","doi":"10.1145/3372923.3404808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404808","url":null,"abstract":"The spread of information within and across Social Networking Sites (SNSs) is increasingly impactful on contemporary society. As information (and misinformation) moves across multiple online platforms, it is important to be able to put these platforms in conversation with one another in order to better understand complex phenomena. This article proposes a taxonomy of actions that are consistent across SNSs to provide researchers and other stakeholders with consistent terminology that enables classifying and comparing user activities over a variety of social media platforms. The proposed taxonomy of actions indicates that although SNSs differentiate themselves in the market and at the level of user experience through unique capabilities and forms of interaction, they can be productively understood as varying means to perform the same set of underlying actions: create, vote, follow, and post.","PeriodicalId":389616,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media","volume":"600 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120933657","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":"Hypertext as a Tool for Exploring Personal Data on Social Media","authors":"E. Herder, Daniel Roßner, Claus Atzenbeck","doi":"10.1145/3372923.3404831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404831","url":null,"abstract":"Social networks such as Facebook are required to provide users with their personal data. However, these dumps do not provide users insight in overarching themes in their online behavior. In this poster, we discuss the development of Mother, a spatial hypertext system for visual data exploration. First insights include that the less obvious connections are more interesting and relevant to the user than very close semantic or temporal connections.","PeriodicalId":389616,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116899889","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":"Addressing the Skies of the Future of Text: A Call for Continuous Improvement in Infrastructures","authors":"F. Hegland","doi":"10.1145/3372923.3404779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404779","url":null,"abstract":"The idiom 'blue sky' refers to 'thinking not grounded or in touch with the way things are'. If we extrapolate far enough into blue sky thinking we can wish for buttons marked 'Do Work' , 'Education' and 'Understand me'. These are all (absolutely worthy) desired results but the interaction entirely removes the human from the equation-even another machine could have pushed the button. To honestly address these wished for improvements in work, education and communication, we need to accept that there will be no magic bullet, pill or machine. These areas are not end-result type areas, such as pill which cures an ailment, they are processes which needs the human's active integration in order to have value. If a button can be pressed to do your work, you no longer have a job.","PeriodicalId":389616,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132038471","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}
Giuseppe Abrami, Alexander Henlein, Attila Kett, Alexander Mehler
{"title":"Text2SceneVR","authors":"Giuseppe Abrami, Alexander Henlein, Attila Kett, Alexander Mehler","doi":"10.1145/3372923.3404791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404791","url":null,"abstract":"The automatic generation of digital scenes from texts is a central task of computer science. This task requires a kind of text comprehension, the automation of which is tied to the availability of sufficiently large, diverse and deeply annotated data, which is freely available. This paper introduces Text2SceneVR, a system that addresses this bottleneck problem by allowing its users to create a sort of spatial hypertexts in Virtual Reality (VR). We describe Text2SceneVR's data model, its user interface and a number of problems related to the implicitness of natural language in the manifestation of spatial relations that Text2SceneVR aims to address while trying to remain language independent. Finally, we present a user study with which we evaluated Text2SceneVR.","PeriodicalId":389616,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117132532","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}
Anna Kawakami, K. Umarova, Dongcheng. Huang, Eni Mustafaraj
{"title":"The 'Fairness Doctrine' lives on?: Theorizing about the Algorithmic News Curation of Google's Top Stories","authors":"Anna Kawakami, K. Umarova, Dongcheng. Huang, Eni Mustafaraj","doi":"10.1145/3372923.3404794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404794","url":null,"abstract":"When one searches for political candidates on Google, a panel composed of recent news stories, known as Top stories, is commonly shown at the top of the search results page. These stories are selected by an algorithm that chooses from hundreds of thousands of articles published by thousands of news publishers. In our previous work, we identified 56 news sources that contributed 2/3 of all Top stories for 30 political candidates running in the primaries of 2020 US Presidential Election. In this paper, we survey US voters to elicit their familiarity and trust with these 56 news outlets. We find that some of the most frequent outlets are not familiar to all voters (e.g. The Hill or Politico), or particularly trusted by voters of any political stripes (e.g. Washington Examiner or The Daily Beast). Why then, are such sources shown so frequently in Top stories? We theorize that Google is sampling news articles from sources with different political leanings to offer a balanced coverage. This is reminiscent of the so-called \"fairness doctrine'' (1949-1987) policy in the United States that required broadcasters (radio or TV stations) to air contrasting views about controversial matters. Because there are fewer right-leaning publications than center or left-leaning ones, in order to maintain this \"fair'' balance, hyper-partisan far-right news sources of low trust receive more visibility than some news sources that are more familiar to and trusted by the public.","PeriodicalId":389616,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117291513","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":"The Narrative of the Image","authors":"Christopher C. Odom","doi":"10.1145/3372923.3404806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404806","url":null,"abstract":"This poster paper explores semiotics and rhetoric as narrative in social media visual culture, specifically with issues of identity and social change on social media platforms such as YouTube. Under the umbrella of semiotics, postmodernism, and poststructuralism, the paper builds upon the work of Roland Barthes, Stuart Hall, and Safiya Umoja Noble by expanding the concepts of visual semiotics, visual rhetoric, postcolonialism, critical race theory, and algorithms to examine the narrative of the image.","PeriodicalId":389616,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129476428","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":"Tech Won't Save Us: Reimagining Digital Technologies for the Public","authors":"S. Noble","doi":"10.1145/3372923.3404476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404476","url":null,"abstract":"Critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values, that is, that it is not the result of the actions of impartial, disembodied, unpositioned agents. Technology consists of a set of social practices, situated within the dynamics of race, gender, class, and politics. This talk, stemming from the recent book, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, addresses the issues of racial equity and public interest technologies that could foreground civil and human rights in the 21st century movements for AI.","PeriodicalId":389616,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121593333","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":"Link Prediction in Signed Networks","authors":"Roshni Chakraborty, Ritwika Das, Nilotpal Chakraborty","doi":"10.1145/3372923.3404805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404805","url":null,"abstract":"Signed networks represent the real world relationships, which are both positive or negative. Recent research works focus on either discriminative or generative based models for signed network embedding. In this paper, we propose a generative adversarial network (GAN) model for signed network which unifies generative and discriminative models to generate the node embedding. Our experimental evaluations on several datasets, like Slashdot, Epinions, Reddit, Bitcoin and Wiki-RFA indicates that the proposed approach ensures better macro F1-score than the existing state-of-the-art approaches in link prediction and handling of sparsity of signed networks.","PeriodicalId":389616,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127548839","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}
A. Antonini, Francesca Benatti, Sally Blackburn-Daniels
{"title":"On Links To Be: Exercises in Style #2","authors":"A. Antonini, Francesca Benatti, Sally Blackburn-Daniels","doi":"10.1145/3372923.3404785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404785","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution extends the discussion of the types and uses of links bootstrapped by Mason and Bernstein's \"On Links: Exercises in Style\", focusing on how authors use marginalia and annotations as links to the future. We argue that the development of a common semantics of \"links to be\" is needed in order to systematise individual authorial practices, provide greater interpretive understanding for readers and enable the development of new tools. We present examples on different types of annotations from the Holographic Vernon Lee project (HoL) and provide our own exercises to formulate a preliminary framework of links to be.","PeriodicalId":389616,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media","volume":"49 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134479178","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":"Towards Extending Wikipedia with Bidirectional Links","authors":"Szymon Olewniczak, Tomasz Boinski, J. Szymański","doi":"10.1145/3372923.3404841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3372923.3404841","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the results of our WikiLinks project which aims at extending current Wikipedia linkage mechanisms. Wikipedia has become recently one of the most important information sources on the Internet, which still is based on relatively simple linkage facilities. A WikiLinks system extends the Wikipedia with bidirectional links between fragments of articles. However, there were several attempts to introduce bidirectional fragment-fragment links to the Web, WikiLinks project is the first attempt to bring the new linkage mechanism directly to Wikipedia.","PeriodicalId":389616,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132037585","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}