TRACK 1: Bots, Bad Actors, Anti-social | WIP Paper | “We were survivors together”: Emergent Themes from the Sympathy Sockpuppets Pilot Study | Devon Greyson and Kaitlin Costello | online communities
online deception
disinformation |
TRACK 1: Bots, Bad Actors, Anti-social | WIP Paper | Analyzing Twitter Bot Activity on Academic Articles | Ashiqur Rahman, Venkata Devesh Reddy Seethi, Simon Shulgan, Rui Zhang, Ehsan Mohammadi and Hamed Alhoori | Social Media
Twitter
Altmetric
Botometer
Spam Metric
Bot
Machine Learning |
TRACK 1: Bots, Bad Actors, Anti-social | WIP Paper | Can legal sentences reduce online hate? In-depth Interviews with legally sentenced online offenders | Sebastian E.M. Weingartner and Lea I. Stahel | Online hate
Online aggression
Countermeasures
Legal sentences
In-depth interview
Context collapse
Effectivenes of sanctions |
TRACK 1: Bots, Bad Actors, Anti-social | Full Paper
 | Characterizing Online Vandalism: A Rational Choice Perspective | Kaylea Champion | rational choice
RCT
vandalism
wikipedia
anonymity
graffiti
online community |
TRACK 1: Bots, Bad Actors, Anti-social | Full Paper
 | Fair Game: The Effects of Target Identity, Attack Topic and Role-Relevance in the Judgement of Online Aggression | Kimberley R. Allison, Kay Bussey and Naomi Sweller | celebrity
cyberbullying
desensitization
moral disengagement
online aggression |
TRACK 1: Bots, Bad Actors, Anti-social | WIP Paper | The Attention Economy of Online Harassment | Lea Stahel | Capital
Field theory
Journalists
Online harassment
Online hate
Shaming
Survey
Social media |
TRACK 2: Digital Methods | Full Paper
 | Analyzing Public Discourse on Social Media With a Geographical Context: A Case Study of 2017 Tax Bill | Jaehee Park and Ming-Hsiang Tsou | Public discourse
Twitter
PMI
content analysis
social network analysis |
TRACK 2: Digital Methods | Full Paper
 | Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior as a Signal to Surface Sources of Problematic Information on Facebook | Fabio Giglietto, Nicola Righetti, Luca Rossi and Giada Marino | Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour
Facebook
Italian election |
TRACK 2: Digital Methods | Full Paper
 | Diversity from Emojis and Keywords in Social Media | Melanie Swartz, Andrew Crooks and William Kennedy | social media
emoji
diversity
elections
political campaigns |
TRACK 2: Digital Methods | Full Paper
 | NivaDuck - A Scalable Pipeline to Build a Database of Political Twitter Handles for India and the United States | Anmol Panda, Andre Gonawela, Sreangsu Acharyya, Dibyendu Mishra, Mugdha Mohapatra, Ramgopal Chandrasekaran and Joyojeet Pal | social media
politics
archive
twitter
india
united states |
TRACK 2: Digital Methods | WIP Paper | Scientific Communication Networks: Tracking Victorian and Twenty-First Century Communication with Social Network Analysis | Bertrum MacDonald, Anatoliy Gruzd and Valerie Collins | Scientific Communication
Scholarly Networks
Correspondence Networks
Twitter |
TRACK 2: Digital Methods | Full Paper
 | The Neil deGrasse Tyson Problem: Methods for Exploring Base Memes in Web Archives | Amelia Acker, Anne C. Loos and Julia Sufrin | Base memes
language detection
Meme Generator
web archives |
TRACK 3: Discourse and Public Opinion | WIP Paper | Alt-Right Discourses as Reactionary Religious Rhetoric in "Mormon Twitter" | Spencer Greenhalgh and Amy Chapman | alt-right
Mormonism
religion
Twitter |
TRACK 3: Discourse and Public Opinion | WIP Paper | Are Saturdays Still for the Boys? Old Row, Social Media, and the Persistence of Heteronormativity in Southern Universities | Travis Wagner and Gavin Weiser | college campuses
Instagram
fraternity culture
institutional diversity
normality |
TRACK 3: Discourse and Public Opinion | Full Paper
 | Comparative Discourse Analysis using Topic Models: Contrasting Perspectives on China from Reddit | Zachary Stine and Nitin Agarwal | Comparative discourse analysis
topic models
computational social science
information theory |
TRACK 3: Discourse and Public Opinion | Full Paper
 | Understanding Perceptions and Attitudes toward Genetically Modified Organisms on Twitter | Inyoung Jun, Yunpeng Zhao, Xing He, Rania Gollakner, Christa Court, Olga Munoz, Jiang Bian, Ilaria Capua and Mattia Prosperi | Genetically modified organism
social media
Twitter
text mining
topic modeling
sentiment analysis
crowd surveillance |
TRACK 3: Discourse and Public Opinion | WIP Paper | Uptake, Polymorphism, and Memetic Construction within #HimToo | Chamil Rathnayake | Media Events
Networked Events
Twitter
Social Network Analysis
Polymorphism |
TRACK 4: Health & Wellbeing | WIP Paper | “Here’s How TikTok Saved My Life”: #Healthcare and #Medical TikToks as Public Health Announcements | Lauren Rouse | TikTok
Video sharing
Medicine
Healthcare
Public Service Announcements |
TRACK 4: Health & Wellbeing | WIP Paper | Appropriation of social media by Turner Syndrome patients: mediatization of health through communication devices | Maria Do Carmo Falchi | Social Media
Health Communication
Turner Syndrome |
TRACK 4: Health & Wellbeing | WIP Paper | Exploring the Potential to Improve Detection of Depressive Symptoms on SNSs among Latinx Adolescents | Katherine Craig, Celeste Campos-Castillo and Linnea Laestadius | SNSs
depression
adolescents
Latinx
detection
emotional
somatic |
TRACK 4: Health & Wellbeing | WIP Paper | Perceptions of Automated Alerts for Self-harm on Social Media among Latinx Adolescents | Linnea Laestadius, Katherine Craig and Celeste Campos-Castillo | health
digital phenotyping
ethics
adolescents |
TRACK 4: Health & Wellbeing | WIP Paper | The Experience and Development of Social Media Addiction: A Grounded Theory Study | Yalin Sun | social media addiction
Facebook addiction
college student social media use
grounded theory |
TRACK 5: Marketing & Outreach | WIP Paper | Does Recognition on Social Media Positively Contribute to Volunteer Motivation and Retention? | Heather Kent and Julie Dillard | Volunteers
Social Media Recognition
Motivation |
TRACK 5: Marketing & Outreach | WIP Paper | Pup-ularity Contest: The Practices of Popular Animal Influencers on Instagram | Jenna Jacobson, Jaigris Hodson and Robert Mittelman | Instagram
Influencers
Animals
Branding
Social Media Strategy |
TRACK 5: Marketing & Outreach | WIP Paper | Social Media & the Memeification of Marketing: Exploring How Brands Interact with Consumers on TikTok | Pilar Castro González and Jenna Drenten | TikTok
internet memes
social media marketing
advertising
consumer creativity |
TRACK 5: Marketing & Outreach | Full Paper
 | The participative turn in Museum: The online facet | Melisa Diaz Lema and Michela Arnaboldi | museums
cultural participation
social media
user engagement |
TRACK 5: Marketing & Outreach | WIP Paper | Understanding Women Social Media Users as Commodity Producers in the New Media through Political Economy Approach | Eda Ozcan Yilmaz, Esra Ince Ozer and Arzu Kalkan | New Media
Political Economy
Labor
E-Commerce
Commodification |
TRACK 6: Misinformation | Full Paper
 | I Reason Who I am? Identity Salience Manipulation to Reduce Motivated Reasoning in News Consumption | Magdalena Wischnewski and Nicole Krämer | Motivated Reasoning
Identity Protection Cognition
Identity Salience
Misinformation
Anger |
TRACK 6: Misinformation | Full Paper
 | Mapping the Narrative Ecosystem of Conspiracy Theories in Online Antivaccination Discussions | Joshua Introne, Ania Korsunska, Leni Krsova and Zefeng Zhang | Narratives
Conspiracy Theories
Social Media
Misinformation |
TRACK 6: Misinformation | WIP Paper | News Diffusion on Twitter: Comparing the Dissemination Careers for Mainstream and Marginal News | Axel Bruns and Tobias Keller | fake news
misinformation
disinformation
social media
Twitter
news dissemination |
TRACK 7: Online & Offline Communities | WIP Paper | "Everyone has that one friend who spams a lot": Pet social media, follower fragmentation, and the imagined oversharer | Jessica Maddox | social media
pets
audiences
community
imagined audience |
TRACK 7: Online & Offline Communities | WIP Paper | Crowdfunding Cis-temic Gender Inequality: Unintended Consequences of the #TransCrowdFund Movement on Twitter | Jenna Drenten | transgender
crowdfunding
Twitter
marginalization
peer-to-peer payment |
TRACK 7: Online & Offline Communities | WIP Paper | Expression or suppression? The representation of diverse neighbourhood voices within a local community Facebook group | Nick Foard | Community
Neighbourhood
Local
Facebook
Representation
Identity |
TRACK 7: Online & Offline Communities | WIP Paper | German right-wing online communities on Russian social media platform VK | Vadim Voskresenskii | right-wing
censorship
online communities |
TRACK 7: Online & Offline Communities | WIP Paper | Social Support for Strained Ties: Family Communication over Social Media for People Experiencing Homelessness | Will Marler | homelessness
poverty
social support
social capital
family communication
Facebook |
TRACK 8: Politics | Full Paper
 | Exploring Political Ad Libraries for Online Advertising Transparency: Lessons from Germany and the 2019 European Elections | Juan Carlos Medina Serrano, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos and Simon Hegelich | political campaigns
ad libraries
social media
European elections
Facebook
Google
transparency |
TRACK 8: Politics | Full Paper
 | Leader or Party?: Personalization in Twitter Political Campaigns during the 2019 Indian Elections | Ashwin Rajadesingan, Anmol Panda and Joyojeet Pal | personalization
social media
politics
elections
campaigns |
TRACK 8: Politics | WIP Paper | Studying Toxicity on Twitter during the 2019 Federal Election in Canada | Anatoliy Gruzd, Philip Mai, Raquel Recuero and Felipe Soares | social media
Twitter
online violence
politics
toxicity |
TRACK 8: Politics | WIP Paper | Tweeting Climate Change Disagreement: How Climate Change Accepters and Deniers Utilized the Twitter Quote Retweet Function in the Context of 2016 U.S. Presidential Election | Jill Hopke, Jeff Hemsley and Jiyoung Lee | Twitter
Political polarization
Information diffusion
Selective exposure
Quote retweets |
TRACK 8: Politics | Full Paper
 | Why Doesn’t Fact-Checking Work? The Mis-Framing of Division on Social Media in Japan | Hiroyuki Fujishiro, Kayo Inamasu and Mone Saito | Social media
Online division
Fact-checking
Fake News
Journalism
Xenophobia |
TRACK 9: Privacy, Security, Trust | Full Paper
 | Building Trustworthiness in Computer-Mediated Introduction: A Facet-Oriented Framework | Angela Borchert, Nicolás Díaz Ferreyra and Maritta Heisel | computer-mediated trustworthiness
trust
social media
computer-mediated introduction
online dating
sharing economy |
TRACK 9: Privacy, Security, Trust | WIP Paper | Internet Surveillance and its chilling effect on the willingness to speak up | Putri Limilia, Sri Seti Indriani and Preciosa Alnashava Janitra | Internet surveillance
Chilling effect
Willingness to speak up
Spiral of silence
Social media |
TRACK 9: Privacy, Security, Trust | WIP Paper | Understanding the role of social media in trust in news: A multi-method case study of Finland | Minna Aslama Horowitz, Janne Matikainen, Markus Ojala, Johanna Jääsaari | trust
news
social media
journalism
audiences |
TRACK 10: Use & Users | WIP Paper | “Being connected to my Shuswap family in the South”- A study to understand the social media experiences of Indigenous youth in northern and rural British Columbia | Omolara Odulaja | Indigenous Youth
Cultural Engagement
Social Media
Institutional regulation |
TRACK 9: Privacy, Security, Trust | WIP Paper | Data-Driven Surveillance of Queer Bodies: The Case of AI Gaydar | Yidong Wang and Xerxes Minocher | artificial intelligence
technology ethics
datafication
surveillance
queer body
gaydar research |
TRACK 10: Use & Users | Full Paper
 | Examining the evolution of mobile social payments in Venmo | Clive Unger, Dhiraj Murthy, Amelia Acker, Ishank Arora and Andy Chang | Social network analysis
social payment platforms
social graphs
community detection
mobile payments
mobile apps
Venmo |
TRACK 10: Use & Users | Full Paper
 | Hesitation While Posting: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Sensitive Topics and Opinion Sharing on Social Media | Parush Gera, Nadia Thomas and Tempestt Neal | selective posting
spiral of silence
hesitation
social media
cross sectional survey
sensitive topics |
TRACK 10: Use & Users | Full Paper
 | How do Digital Divides Determine Social Media Users’ Aspirations to Influence Others? | Sanna Malinen, Aki Koivula and Ilkka Koiranen | Online influence
Online participation
Digital Divide
Survey |
TRACK 10: Use & Users | Full Paper
 | Sociality Under Siege. A Qualitative Study on Youth and Social Media in the West Bank | Andrea Miconi | Social media
ethnography
qualitative research
Palestine |
TRACK 10: Use & Users | WIP Paper | Understanding how young adult activists engage with news on social media | Winston Teo | Social news
Citizen participation
Social media
information control
activism |
TRACK 1: Bots, Bad Actors, Anti-social | Full Paper
 | Communicative Constitution of Illicit Online Trade Collectives: An Exploration of Darkweb Market Subreddits | K. Hazel Kwon and Chun Shao | Dark web
illicit communities of practice
Reddit
communicative constitution of organization cryptomarket
cybercrime |
TRACK 1: Bots, Bad Actors, Anti-social | WIP Paper | Identifying Incel: Gendered Processes of Social Categorization in the Manosphere | Katherine Furl | gendered essentialism
in-group favoritism
modified grounded theory
social identity
masculinity |
TRACK 1: Bots, Bad Actors, Anti-social | Full Paper
 | Identifying Victim Blaming Language in Discussions about Sexual Assaults on Twitter | Ashima Suvarna, Grusha Bhalla, Shailender Kumar and Ashi Bhardwaj | Sexual assault
rape
victim blame
Twitter
social media
deep learning
classification |
TRACK 1: Bots, Bad Actors, Anti-social | Full Paper
 | It´s the aggression, stupid! - An examination of commenters’ motives for using incivility in online political discussions. | Jan P. Kluck and Nicole C. Krämer | Incivility
online political discussions
motivation
user comments |
TRACK 1: Bots, Bad Actors, Anti-social | Full Paper
 | Regulating Digital Harm Across Borders: Exploring a Content Platform Commission | Wren Elhai | Digital harm
government regulation
certification
intermediary liability
self-regulation
social media
human rights |
TRACK 2: Digital Methods | Full Paper
 | Analyzing Hate Speech with Incel-Hunters’ Critiques | Yisi Sang and Jeffrey Stanton | Content moderation
automated moderation
semi-automated moderation
online communities
Incel
hate speech
Reddit |
TRACK 3: Discourse and Public Opinion | WIP Paper | Anonymity and Persuasiveness in Wikipedia’s Articles for Deletion Discussions | Yimin Xiao and Lu Xiao | Anonymity
Persuasion
Wikipedia AfD
Identity disclosure |
TRACK 3: Discourse and Public Opinion | WIP Paper | Networked Academics: a comparative analysis of discourse patterns in online academic discussion groups. | Subhasree Sengupta | discussion groups
disclosure
content analysis
identity
community norms |
TRACK 3: Discourse and Public Opinion | WIP Paper | Probing for Hate and Incivility among Networked Publics Discussing Religion on Twitter | Sharon Meraz | Religion networks
partisan religious Twitter
disinformation
hate groups |
TRACK 3: Discourse and Public Opinion | WIP Paper | Twitter and Resilience Planning: A Semantic Networked Framing Analysis of #CycloneIdai | Kendal Tyson | Semantic Networks
Networked Framing
Resilience
Twitter
Climate Change |
TRACK 4: Health & Wellbeing | Full Paper
 | Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Especially When Facebook Won’t Let You | Erin Spottswood and Christopher Carpenter | Social network sites
interpersonal communication
relationships
hyperperception |
TRACK 4: Health & Wellbeing | WIP Paper | Striving for Social Media Reduces the Ability to Filter Out Visual Distractors | Christina Koessmeier and Oliver B Büttner | social media
distraction
attention
fear of missing out
social exclusion |
TRACK 4: Health & Wellbeing | WIP Paper | Suicidal Ideation on Reddit’s /r/SuicideWatch | Brent Davis, Renee Hunt, Daniel Lizotte, Arlene MacDougall and Kamran Sedig | Suicide
Data Mining
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Reddit
Big Data
Public Health |
TRACK 5: Marketing & Outreach | WIP Paper | Appealing to the Crowd: An Initial Analysis of Crowdfunding Campaigns in Asia | Siti Nuruljannah Binte Baharudin, Stacy Sarah Seok Hwee Seow, Siti Nadzirah Binte Samsudin and Chei Sian Lee | Online crowdfunding
Appeal Modes
Online community
Kickstarter
Asia |
TRACK 5: Marketing & Outreach | WIP Paper | We (MOSTLY) Carry Guns for the Internet: Relational Labor, Social Hacking and Chasing Digital Clout by Black Male Youth in Chicago’s Drill Rap Scene | Jabari M. Evans, MSW | Hip-Hop
Social Networking
Connected Learning
Urban Ethnography
Digital Youth
DIY Marketing
Personal Branding
Racial Capital |
TRACK 6: Misinformation | WIP Paper | Fake news and its power in agenda setting: An analysis of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's purported marriage story with his minister. | Murtala Salihu and Ahmad Lawal | Fake news
Agenda setting
Social media
Content analysis
Facebook |
TRACK 6: Misinformation | Full Paper
 | Social Media and Credibility: Civil Society Organizations in Mongolia | Undrah Baasanjav | platform affordances
Facebook
focus Group Interviews
information literacy
media literacy
misinformation
disinformation
surveillance |
TRACK 6: Misinformation | Full Paper
 | Twitter as health information source: Exploring the parameters affecting dementia-related tweets | Fatimah Alhayan and Diane Pennington | Twitter
Credibility
Bots
Dementia
Alzheimer’s |
TRACK 6: Misinformation | Full Paper
 | Which cues are credible? – The relative importance and interaction of expertise, likes, shares, pictures and involvement while assessing the credibility of politicians’ Facebook postings | Judith Meinert and Nicole C. Krämer | Social media
credibility judgments
cue
information processing |
TRACK 7: Online & Offline Communities | WIP Paper | An Intersectional Analysis of #MeToo: Effects of Viral Audience on Established Support Communities | Alicia Boyd and Breanna McEwan | Whiteness
Intersectionality
Twitter #MeToo
Critical Analysis
Feminist Analysis
Viral Hashtags |
TRACK 7: Online & Offline Communities | Full Paper
 | Characterizing the Evolution of Communities on Reddit | Humphrey Appiah Mensah, Sucheta Soundarajan and Lu Xiao | community growth
online community
evolution of online communities
language patterns |
TRACK 7: Online & Offline Communities | WIP Paper | Collectivising Hashtags: An Impoverished Form of Solidarity | Claire Fitzpatrick | Collectivising Hashtags
Affordances
Vulnerability
Diversity
Critical Feminist Theory |
TRACK 8: Politics | Full Paper
 | Populism by the people: An analysis of online comments in Portugal and Spain | Belén Fernández García and Susana Salgado | Populism
People
Online comments
Content Analysis |
TRACK 8: Politics | WIP Paper | Self-Presenting Strategies and Visual Frames of Political Leaders on Instagram: Evidence from the Eventful 2019 Istanbul Mayoral Elections | Dilek Melike Uluçay and Gizem Melek | Instagram
Images
Self-framing
Visual frame analysis
2019 İstanbul Mayoral Election |
TRACK 8: Politics | Full Paper
 | The homogeneity of right-wing populist and radical content in YouTube recommendations | Daniel Röchert, Muriel Weitzel and Björn Ross | Filter bubble
Network Analysis
YouTube
right-wing populism |
TRACK 9: Privacy, Security, Trust | WIP Paper | “Avocado is a Must”: The impact of social class and identity on viewers’ perception of Turkish morning routine videos | Alkım Yalın | morning routine videos
viewer comments
social media
YouTube
cultural discourse analysis
ethnography of communication |
TRACK 9: Privacy, Security, Trust | Full Paper
 | Applying Protection Motivation Theory to Predict Facebook Users’ Withdrawal and Disclosure Intentions | Yannic Meier, Johanna Schäwel, Elias Kyewski and Nicole C. Krämer | privacy protection motivation
social network site
self-disclosure
fear-appeal
social norms |
TRACK 9: Privacy, Security, Trust | WIP Paper | Great Profile? The Exposure of Information Security Vulnerabilities through LinkedIn Profile Information | Mi Zhou, Tawei David Wang and Yenyao Wang | social media
LinkedIn
information security |
TRACK 9: Privacy, Security, Trust | WIP Paper | Trade-offs between privacy and social good during the Covid-19 pandemic | Clara Hanson, Ka-Yuet Liu | Privacy
Heuristics
Stigma
Experiment |
TRACK 10: Use & Users | WIP Paper | Contextualizing the Participation Divide: Digital Inequalities in Politics, Health, Culture, Commerce and Education | Christian Hoffmann and Christoph Lutz | digital inequality
political participation
participation divide |
TRACK 10: Use & Users | WIP Paper | Gaming Affordances of SNS: How Activists Leverage Digital Tools | Diana Casteel | Activism
Social Networking Sites
Affordances
Visibility
Imagined Affordances
Constraints |
TRACK 10: Use & Users | Full Paper
 | Mass Media Consumption and Sexual Image Sharing from a Social Cognitive Perspective | Zhiying Yue and Michael Stefanone | Social cognitive theory
Reality television
Social media
Sexual image sharing |
TRACK 10: Use & Users | WIP Paper | The social media lives of top CEOs | Patrick McHugh, Marcel Smorszczewski and Ellen Macaruso | CEO
social media
adoption
LinkedIn
Twitter |