Academic Research

Identifying lexical change in negative word-of-mouth on social media. Wienke Strathern, Raji Ghawi, Mirco Schönfeld & Jürgen Pfeffer. Social Network Analysis and Mining. [Computational Linguistics].

Critical measurement issues in the assessment of social media influence on body image. Hannah K. Jarman, Siân A. McLean, Scott Griffiths, et al. Body Image. [Psychology].

Seeing political information online incidentally: Effects of first- and second-level incidental exposure on democratic outcomes. Andreas Nanz & Jörg Matthes. Computers in Human Behavior. [Political Science]. 

When is the right time to remember?: Social media memories, temporality and the kairologic. Benjamin N. Jacobsen. New Media + Society. [Communication].

'Grey areas’: Ethical challenges posed by social media-enabled recruitment and online data collection in cross-border, social science research. Sara Bamdad, Devin A. Finaughty, Sarah E. Johns. Research Ethics. [Ethics].

Report of the European Digital Media Observatory’s Working Group on Platform-to-Researcher Data Access. Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics. [Data Governance].
 

Popular Press

Your kids’ apps are spying on them. Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post. Apple and Google just look the other way. Here’s how we stop it.

Family sues Meta, blames Instagram for daughter’s eating disorder and self-harm. Jesselyn Cook, NBC News. Lawyers say the case makes unprecedented use of documents released with the Facebook Papers.
 

Calls for Papers

International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. Hybrid, September 20-23, 2022. Submissions Due: July 1, 2022. The SBP-BRiMS conference invites modeling and simulation papers from academics, research scientists, technical communities and defense researchers across traditional disciplines to meet, share ideas, discuss research results, identify capability gaps, highlight promising technologies, and showcase the state-of-the-art in applications in the areas of cultural behavioral modeling, prediction, and social computing.

International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing. Matsuyama University, Japan, October 29-31, 2022. Submissions Due: July 12, 2022. BESC conference aims to become a premier forum in which academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioral and psychological sciences could present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions.

International Conference on Information Society. Virtual Conference, October 18-20, 2022. Abstract Submissions Due: July 15, 2022. The i-Society 2022 is a global knowledge-enriched collaborative effort that has its roots from both academia and industry. The i-Society conference covers a wide spectrum of topics but not limited to Information Society, Wearables, IoT, e-Society, Blockchain, Sustainable Development, Social Media, 5G/6G Networks and Enabling Technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
 

Calls for Proposals

Alexa: Fairness in AI call for proposals - Spring 2022. Amazon. Deadline: July 8, 2022. Under this call for proposals, we are specifically seeking proposals on explainability applied toward advancing fairness.
 

Events, Tutorials & Workshops

SICSS-Festival. A series of research workshops and events organized by SICSS-Sydney and hosted at the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre.

• Academic Research Using the Twitter API. Monday, Jun 20, 2022, 8:30 PM EDT. Summer Institutes in Computational Science - Sydney. In this workshop, researchers will learn how to work with the Twitter API v2 to get Twitter data for research.

• Mapping Problematic Content: Mixing qualitative approach & machine learning. Wednesday, June 22, 2022, 8:00 PM EDT. Summer Institutes in Computational Science - Sydney. This presentation details our recent advances in detecting problematic opinions in online discussions (conspiracy theories, hate speech, mis- and dis-information).

• New and Emerging Methods for Studying Online Influence Operations. Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 8:00 PM EDT. Summer Institutes in Computational Science - Sydney. This workshop introduces participants to the concept of ‘coordination network analysis’ and its unreasonable effectiveness at detecting online influence operations. 

We would like to thank the S3MC funders for supporting this newsletter, with special thanks to the McCourt School’s Massive Data Institute (MDI) at Georgetown University.