Publications

This section contains publications published by ISI over the past several decades.

2024

The Dawn of Decentralized Social Media: An Exploration of Bluesky's Public Opening

Erfan Samieyan Sahneh, Gianluca Nogara, Matthew R DeVerna, Nick Liu, Luca Luceri, Filippo Menczer, Francesco Pierri, Silvia Giordano
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Advances in Social …,  2024

Tracking fringe and coordinated activity on Twitter leading up to the US Capitol attack

Padinjaredath Suresh Vishnuprasad, Gianluca Nogara, Felipe Cardoso, Stefano Cresci, Silvia Giordano, Luca Luceri
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 18 …,  2024

An Exploration of Decentralized Moderation on Mastodon

Carlo Alberto Bono, Lucio La Cava, Luca Luceri, Francesco Pierri
Proceedings of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference, 53-58,  2024

Misinformation and Polarization around COVID-19 vaccines in France, Germany, and Italy

Gianluca Nogara, Francesco Pierri, Stefano Cresci, Luca Luceri, Silvia Giordano
Proceedings of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference,  2024

Style transfer with multi-iteration preference optimization

Shuai Liu, Jonathan May
arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.11581,  2024

Authorship Style Transfer with Policy Optimization

Shuai Liu, Shantanu Agarwal, Jonathan May
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Customizable NLP: Progress and Challenges …,  2024

Safe Spaces or Toxic Places? Content Moderation and Social Dynamics of Online Eating Disorder Communities

Kristina Lerman, Minh Duc Chu, Charles Bickham, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.15721,  2024

In-Group Love, Out-Group Hate: A Framework to Measure Affective Polarization via Contentious Online Discussions

Buddhika Nettasinghe, Ashwin Rao, Bohan Jiang, Allon Percus, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14414,  2024

Universal Patterns in the Long-term Growth of Urban Infrastructure in US Cities from 1900 to 2015

Keith Burghardt, Johannes H Uhl, Kristina Lerman, Stefan Leyk
arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.13181,  2024

Strong Friendship Paradox in Social Networks

Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.02061,  2024

Harmful speech detection by language models exhibits gender-queer dialect bias

Rebecca Dorn, Lee Kezar, Fred Morstatter, Kristina Lerman
Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms …,  2024

Estimating Causal Effects of Text Interventions Leveraging LLMs

Siyi Guo, Myrl G Marmarelis, Fred Morstatter, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.21474,  2024

Aggregation Artifacts in Subjective Tasks Collapse Large Language Models' Posteriors

Georgios Chochlakis, Alexandros Potamianos, Kristina Lerman, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.13776,  2024

Measuring the Echo-Chamber Phenomenon Through Exposure Bias

Nathan Bartley, Keith Burghardt, Kristina Lerman
Social Network Analysis and Mining Applications in Healthcare and Anomaly …,  2024

RTs!= Endorsements: Rethinking Exposure Fairness on Social Media Platforms

Nathan Bartley, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.13237,  2024

Fear and Loathing on the Frontline: Decoding the Language of Othering by Russia-Ukraine War Bloggers

Patrick Gerard, William Theisen, Tim Weninger, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.13064,  2024

Modeling Information Narrative Detection and Evolution on Telegram during the Russia-Ukraine War

Patrick Gerard, Svitlana Volkova, Louis Penafiel, Kristina Lerman, Tim Weninger
arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.07684,  2024

Larger language models don’t care how you think: Why chain-of-thought prompting fails in subjective tasks

Georgios Chochlakis, Niyantha Maruthu Pandiyan, Kristina Lerman, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.06173,  2024

Towards Safer Online Spaces: Simulating and Assessing Intervention Strategies for Eating Disorder Discussions

Louis Penafiel, Hsien-Te Kao, Isabel Erickson, David Chu, Robert McCormack, Kristina Lerman, Svitlana Volkova
arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.04043,  2024

Information Architectures: A Framework for Understanding Socio-Technical Systems

Paul E Smaldino, Adam Russell, Matthew Zefferman, Judith Donath, Jacob Foster, Douglas Guilbeault, Martin Hilbert, Elizabeth A Hobson, Kristina Lerman, Helena Miton
SocArXiv,  2024