Academic Research

TRICAN: Multi-Modal Hateful Memes Detection with Triplet-Relation Information. Xiaolin Liang, Yajuan Huang, Wen Liu, He Zhu, Zhao Liang, Libo Chen. IEEE. [Computer Science].

EarlyAd: A System for Real-Time Surveillance of Brazilian Early Electoral Ads on Twitter. Marcelo M. R. Araújo, Samuel Guimarães, Marcio Silva, Josemar Caetano, Jonatas Santos, Julio C. S. Reis, Ana P. C. Silva, Fabricio Benevenuto, & Jussara M. Almeida. ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. [Political Science].

Exploring Social Support in an Online Support Community for Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorders: Analysis of Postings. Mercédesz Judit Soós, Neil S. Coulson, & E. Bethan Davies. Journal of Medical Internet Research. [Public Health].

Twitter Users’ Privacy Behavior: A Reasoned Action Approach. Peter Schmidt, Galit Gordoni, Icek Ajzen, Christoph Beuthner, Eldad Davidov, Henning Silber, Holger Steinmetz, and Bernd Weiß. Social Media + Society. [Communications]. 

Enjoying nature on Instagram: A moderated mediation model of photographic aesthetics, image manipulation, and environmental attitude. Danielle Ka Lai Lee. Current Psychology. [Psychology]. 

Perceived COVID-19 Financial Threat Declining. Lisa Singh, Ceren Budak, Michael Traugott, Rebecca Vanarsdall, & Yanchen Wang. MOSAIC Data Brief. [Economics].

Popular Press

How social media ‘censorship’ became a front line in the culture war. Will Oremus, Washington Post. What people can and can’t say online — and the role of Big Tech in making those calls — has emerged as a critical fault line in American politics.

A third of children have adult social media accounts - Ofcom. BBC News. One in three children lie about their age to access adult content on social media, according to research commissioned by the regulator, Ofcom.

Calls for Papers

Special Issue: Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing (BESC). Human-Centric Intelligent Systems. Deadline: November 30, 2022. As an endeavor following up the BESC 2020 conference, specifically, the objectives of the proposed special issue include: Social Computing, Digital Humanities, Natural Language Processing, Behavior and User Modelling, Data Privacy, and Ethics.

Calls for Proposals

AWS AI — Fall 2022. Amazon Research. Deadline: October 19, 2022. AWS AI aims to advance machine learning research by funding the development of open-source tools and research that benefit the machine learning community at large, or impactful research that uses machine learning tools on AWS, including AWS AI Services, AWS ML Services (Amazon SageMaker, Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth, Amazon SageMaker Neo, and Amazon Augmented AI), and Apache MXNet on AWS.

Events, Tutorials & Workshops

Wikipedia and the Travel of Facts in the Digital Age. Friday, October 21, 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm AEDT. The University of Sydney. This talk examines power struggles on Wikipedia, and who has the power to write dominant histories on such a well-visited website.

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.