Academic Research

Cross-Directional Hybrid Space: A Non-Locative Approach to Mobile Social Media Studies. Deepti Singh Apte, Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay. Social Media + Society. [Communication Studies].

Robust Identification of Figurative Language in Personal Health Mentions on Twitter. Usman Naseem, Jinman Kim, Matloob Khushi and Adam G. Dunn. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. [Computer Science].

Is TikTok a public sphere for democracy in China? A Political Economy Approach. Hui Lin. European Conference on Social Media. [Political Science].

Ethical issues of collecting, storing, and analyzing geo-referenced tweets for mental health research. Marta Fadda, Martin Sykora, Suzanne Elayan, Milo A Puhan, John A Naslund, Stephen J Mooney, Emiliano Albanese, Rosalba Morese, and Oliver Gruebner. Digital Health. [Ethics].

Making sense of deepfakes: Socializing AI and building data literacy on GitHub and YouTube. Anthony McCosker. New Media + Society. [Communication Studies].

Popular Press

Meta to give researchers more information on political ad targeting. Mike Issac, New York Times. Academics and journalists will be able to see more data about the way political ads are used to target users across Facebook and Instagram.

What is Discord, the chat app used by the Buffalo suspect? Tatum Hunter and Chris Velazco, Washington Post. Vile conversations unfold on the popular chat service, but so do wholesome ones

Calls for Papers

ISRE 2022 Pre-Conference Workshop: Emotions in Communication in Organizations and Social Media. University of Southern California, July 15th, 2022. Submissions Due: June 20, 2022. The preconference has the aim to shed light on how contemporary research investigates emotions in organizations, organizational communication, and social media with the help of innovative digital technologies often called affective computing.

2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022). Abu Dhabi, December 9-11, 2022. Direct paper submission deadline: June 24, 2022. The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022) invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on empirical methods for Natural Language Processing.

16th ACM International WSDM Conference. Singapore, February 27 - March 3, 2023. Papers Due: August 12, 2022. WSDM publishes original, high-quality papers related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical yet principled approaches.

Calls for Proposals

Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS) - Research. NSF. Deadline: July 14, 2022. The Human Networks and Data Science program (HNDS) supports research that enhances understanding of human behavior by leveraging data and network science research across a broad range of topics.

Events, Tutorials & Workshops

Privacy and Data Scraping: Perspectives from Latin America. Mon, June 6, 2022, 1:00 PM EDT. UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. The rapid evolution of data scraping technologies is forcing us to reconsider some evergreen questions: What content is public? What is private? How do we decide? For the next event in our series on data scraping and privacy, civil society experts from Colombia and Brazil will join us to describe how this debate is shaping in Latin America.

AI in 2022: A Look at the Power, Potential, and Perils. Wednesday, Jun 8, 2022, 10:00 PM EDT. IEEE Computer Society Phoenix Chapter. In this talk, Steve Kramer will give an introduction to AI for non-practitioners and then highlight current use cases in computer vision, natural language processing, time series forecasting, anomaly detection, reinforcement learning, and recommender systems where AI-based systems are already performing well or offer significant promise to do so in the near future.

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.