Academic Research

API Governance: The Case of Facebook’s Evolution. Fernando N. van der Vlist, Anne Helmond, Marcus Burkhardt, & Tatjana Seitz. Social Media + Society. [Communication Studies].

Comparing the Impact of Social Media Regulations on News Consumption. G. Etta, M. Cinelli, A. Galeazzi, C. M. Valensise, W. Quattrociocchi & M. Conti. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. [Computer Science].

Persistence and Attrition among Participants in a Multi-Page Online Survey Recruited via Reddit’s Social Media Network. Dirk H.R. Spennemann. Social Sciences. [Survey Methodology].

Detecting Inorganic Financial Campaigns on Twitter. Serena Tardelli, Marco Avvenuti, Maurizio Tesconi, Stefano Cresci. Information Systems. [Computer Science and Economics].

A Two-Generation Study: The Transmission of Attachment and Young Adults’ Depression, Anxiety, and Social Media Addiction. Gizem Arikan, Ibrahim Hakki Acar, A. Meltem Ustundag-Budak. Addictive Behaviors. [Psychology].

Popular Press

I gave Instagram photos of my baby. Instagram returned fear. Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post. Algorithms prey on you. What if you could reset them?

This New Social App Is Boring, in a Good Way. John Herrman, New York Times. Once a day, at an unpredictable time, BeReal notifies its users that they have two minutes to post a pair of pictures. The feed is mundane, but also fun — for now at least.

Calls for Papers

International Conference on Pervasive Knowledge and Collective Intelligence on Web and Social Media. November 3rd - 4th, Tropea, Italy. Papers Due: June 15, 2022. The Conference will be a new venue for bringing researchers from different disciplines in the fields of Pervasive Computing, Web and Social Media to discuss and promote ideas and practices about pervasive knowledge and collective Intelligence in these fields. 

SoGood 2022 - The 7th Workshop on Data Science for Social Good.  September 19th - 23rd, Grenoble, France. Papers Due: June 20, 2022. This workshop aims to attract papers presenting applications of Data Science for Social Good (which may, or may not require new methods), or applications that take into account social aspects of Data Science methods and techniques.
 

Calls for Proposals

NSF-SSRC Collaboration. NSF. Multiple Deadlines. Drawing on their complementary strengths, these two funders intend to jointly fund proposals that advance scientific knowledge about the impact of public health guidance. 
 

Events, Tutorials & Workshops

Attacking the Brain: Security and Privacy Case Studies in Online Advertising, Misinformation, and Augmented Reality. Monday, May 23, 2022, 9:00 AM, Eastern Time. Franziska (Franzi) Roesner is an Associate Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where she co-directs the Security and Privacy Research Lab. Her research focuses broadly on computer security and privacy for end users of existing and emerging technologies. 

Berkeley Boost Webinar | AI, Ethics, and the Defense Industry. Friday, May 27, 2022 10:30 AM, Pacific Time. Join us for a discussion with three of the world's leading experts on the legal and ethical issues surrounding AI: the Hon. James E. Baker, Karen Silverman, and H. Mark Lyon.

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.