Bots have less influence than celebrities

Abeer Aldayel and Walid Magdy. 2022. Characterizing the role of bots’ in polarized stance on social media. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 12(1). DOI

Articles:

• Study: Bots on Twitter have less influence than celebrities
• Edinburgh researchers say celebrities and influencers ‘more dangerous’ than bots
• Bots less of a bother on social media than celebs, study finds
• Promis verbreiten Desinformation besser als Bots (“Celebrities spread misinformation better than bots”)
• Studie zu Social Media: Wird der Einfluss von Bots überbewertet? (“Social Media Study: Is the Influence of Bots Overstated?”)

Birthday wishes leak private information

Dilara Keküllüoğlu, Walid Magdy, and Kami Vaniea. 2022. From an Authentication Question to a Public Social Event: Characterizing Birthday Sharing on Twitter. arXiv:2201.10655 [cs], January. arXiv: 2201.10655. arXiv

Articles:

• Birthday wishes inadvertently give away private information online

Yellow emojis are not neutral

Robertson A., W. Magdy, S. Goldwater. Black or White but never neutral: How readers perceive identity from yellow or skin-toned emoji. ACM 2021 arXiv

Articles:

• Ethnicity is black and white when it comes to colour of emojis

• Yellow emoji not neutral symbol of identity, says study

Online Signals that can Reveal User’s Views

Aldayel A. and W. Magdy. Your Stance is Exposed! Analysing Possible Factors for Stance Detection on Social Media. CSCW 2019 arXiv

Articles:

• TechXplore: How people’s stance on a topic can be inferred from their online activity

• The National: Scientists warns of fake news risk as AI predicts views of silent Tweeters

• The World News: AI could predict “silent users’” views on politics and religion, Edinburgh study finds

• ScotsMan: Artificial intelligence could predict the views of Scottish social media users

• Medium: Most of our online signals on social media can reveal our views!

Emoji with Skin Tones are used positively on Twitter

Robertson A., W. Magdy, S. Goldwater. Self-Representation on Twitter Using Emoji Skin Color Modifiers. ICWSM 2018. arXiv

Articles:

• National Geographic: How Diverse Emojis Encourage More Social Inclusion

• BBC:Emoji skin tone options ‘being used positively’

• The Telegraph: Skin tone emoji boost inclusion on social media, study shows

• RTE: Emojis successful in representing diversity - study

• The Herald: Darker emoji skin tones promote diversity, Twitter study shows

• The Sun: Darker skin tone emojis ‘rarely abused in a racist way on Twitter’ according to Scottish study

• The Irish News:Emojis successful in representing diversity - study

• Bussiness Standard: Diverse skin tone emojis boost inclusion: Twitter study

• Eurek Alert:Darker emoji skin tones promote diversity, Twitter study shows

• BT News: Emojis successfully represent diversity, study says

• Market Watch:Darker emoji skin tones promote diversity, not racism, on Twitter

• La Nación:Emojis con diferentes tonos de piel promueven la diversidad