Academic Research

How Does Multi-Platform Social Media Use Lead to Biased News Engagement? Examining the Role of Counter-Attitudinal Incidental Exposure, Cognitive Elaboration, and Network Homogeneity. Jing Guo and Hsuan-Ting Chen. Social Media + Society. [Communications]. 

Tiktok and Facebook Fail to Detect Election Disinformation in the US, While Youtube Succeeds: Briefing October 2022. NYU Tandon School, Cybersecurity for Democracy, Global Witness. Global Witness. [Cybersecurity].

What to watch: Practical considerations and strategies for using YouTube for research. Wuyou Sui, Anna Sui, and Ryan E Rhodes. Digital Health. [Health].

Event Detection via Tracking the Change in Community Structure and Communication Trends. Riza Aktunc, Pinar Karagoz & Ismail Hakki Toroslu. IEEE. [Computer Science].

How does mobile social media use associate with adolescents’ depression? The mediating role of psychological security and its gender difference. Fanchang Kong, Huiying Deng, Sujie Meng & Yue Ge. Current Psychology. [Psychology].

Popular Press

Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce. Elizabeth Dwoskin, Faiz Siddiqui, Gerrit De Vynck and Jeremy B. Merrill, Washington Post. Previously unreported details shed new light on Twitter’s motivations for selling the company — and Elon Musk’s plans to transform it.

How TikTok’s algorithm made it a success: ‘It pushes the boundaries’. Alex Hern, The Guardian. The company’s secret sauce is what populates its For You Page, which predicts the videos that will pique a viewer’s interest.

Calls for Papers

IEEE International Conference on Communications 2023 (SAC – Social Networks). May 28, 2023 - Jun 1, 2023, Rome, Italy. Deadline: November 1, 2022. Themed “Sustainable Communications for Renaissance,” this flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society will feature a comprehensive high-quality technical program including 13 symposia and a variety of tutorials and workshops.

2023 9th International Conference on Humanity and Social Sciences. January 6 - 8, 2023, Tokyo, Japan. Deadline: November 15, 2022. As a premier conference, ICHSS aims to provide a good forum for scientists, researchers, engineers and industrial practitioners throughout the world to present and discuss the latest technology advancement as well as future directions and trends in humanity and social sciences.

Calls for Proposals

2023 Data Futures Lab Cohort Call for Proposals. Mozilla Foundation. Deadline: November 11, 2022. The Data Futures Lab is interested in supporting organizations building technology platforms that mobilize communities to contribute their data for a shared benefit. We’re specifically interested in projects committed to implementing ethical and fair data collection, storage, and use towards solving a public interest problem.

Events, Tutorials & Workshops

Colloquim: Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang (Penn State) - Push Beyond Common Boundaries in Human-Machine Collaboration. November 1, 2022, 12:30 - 2:00PM, CDT. University of Texas, Austin. This talk will cover three threads of our work, including (1) a crowd-AI chatbot that holds conversations about any topic, (2) assisting writers in composing lengthy and complicated novels, and (3) empowering a local community to combat the pressing air pollution threats.

Underrepresented in Technology: Navigating Successful Paths. November 3, 2022, 3:30 – 4:30 PM Eastern. Georgetown University. This panel discussion will focus on the challenges and opportunities faced when navigating a career in technology from the perspective of those who are underrepresented in the field. 

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.