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LLMs can leverage dimensions of social pragmatics to generate arguments that sound persuasive to humans, and that mimic human persuasion strategies. Anders Giovanni Møller presenting @ic2s2. Paper from #icwsm24 proceedings: arxiv.org/abs/2312.15523 #ic2s2

Just released! Given the rise of visual content on social media, image clustering is a crucial task in CSS. In our work, we use LLM-generated descriptions to enhance the semantic validity of image clustering. Explore our research here 📊🔍 osf.io/preprints/soca…

The first two weeks at University of Michigan have been great ✨ I’m visiting Ceren Budak until the end of December, working on labor unions and their digital media strategies. Very excited to exchange ideas with the researchers at School of Information!

👩🏼‍💻 Real or Robotic? 🤖 Can LLMs accurately simulate qualities of human responses in dialogue? Human conversations with LLMs are great for assessing the capabilities of LLMs. But having lots of folks chat with LLMs is challenging (💰⏳🕵️). Could we have another LLM *simulate*

🌿I am on the faculty job market this year!🌿 I work on reliable natural language processing, including: ✅ Factuality 💪 Robustness 🌿 Sustainability Feel free to reach out and DM! I will also be at #EMNLP2024 and #NeurIPS2024 and would love to chat in person!

📄 New Paper Alert: Our study on the visual echo chamber effect in Facebook climate debate shows that climate activists and skeptics rarely share the same visuals, and when they do, their reactions and interpretations diverge, reinforcing rather than bridging divides.

Academic job market post! 👀 I’m a CS Postdoc at Stanford in the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group group. I develop ways to improve the online information ecosystem, by designing better social media feeds & improving Wikipedia. I work on AI, Social Computing, and HCI. piccardi.me 🧵

Our Prisoner's Dilemma work got accepted to ICWSM! Looking forward to next year's edition in Copenhagen. Francesco Pierri

The Call for Papers is live on our website! 🎉 We’re accepting submissions for full papers, demos, posters, and datasets—all due by January 15. Don’t miss the chance to showcase your work and join us this June in beautiful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 icwsm.org/2025/submit/in…

The USC Information Sciences Institute 🇺🇸 will be our host organization. We're thrilled to have Fred Morstatter, 🇺🇦 Kristina Lerman 🇺🇦, and Luca Luceri as our wonderful hosts. Looking forward to an amazing event together!

🔥 Hey NetPals, NetPlace is back! This week, we welcome Arianna Pera from @ITUkbh, who will discuss swing voters on social media, and imposter syndrome in academia. 📅 Mark your calendars: 23rd Jan, 4pm UK time Zoom: netplace.site

🚀 The HONS Satellite series is back at the NetSci 2025 This year's topic merges (high-order) networks and AI🍯 📢 Don't miss the chance to join us by submitting a contributed talk! ⏰ Deadline: February 14 👉🏼 More info: hons-web.github.io/online/index.h…

SICSS-Penn application is open! Deadline March 7, 2025. More information can be found ➡️sicss.io/2025/penn/apply Xi Song Dan Hopkins Duncan Watts #computational #socialscience #SICSS

📢 Join us and enjoy Copenhagen this summer! ”DETOX: Countering Social Media Degradation" workshop at #ICWSM (June 23) explores user-driven resistance to inequality & polarization in digital spaces. 📅 Submit your abstract by March 31, more info here: tinyurl.com/yy859eyt

🎉 Acceptance notifications have been sent—congratulations to all the authors! 🔥 If you are a student, be sure to check out the #ICWSM 2025 Student Travel Grant 📅 Deadline: Mar 31, 2025 🔎Details: icwsm.org/2025/attend/in… ✍️Application form: aaaiforms.wufoo.com/forms/m1xp8iza…

Yesterday Luca Maria Aiello (lajello.bsky.social) and I had the opportunity to present our work on the language of collective action at the CSS Seminar Series at Uppsala universitet 🇸🇪 Thanks to Matteo Magnani (no longer active here) and Davide Vega for inviting us, and to the whole UU-Infolab (no longer active here) for the warm welcome and insightful conversations!

🚨 Special Session at #ICWSM2025 From biased algorithms to inclusive research: science and practice Join Roberta Sinatra & Jakob Feldtfos Christensen to explore bias in science and inclusion in practice. 📅 June 24 🕑 12:00 PM 📍CSS 35.01.05

⏰ Less than two weeks to go until #ICWSM 2025! Can’t wait for the conference? You can already explore this year’s accepted contributions! The proceedings are now live: 🔗 icwsm.org/2025/schedule/…

📢 Meet the keynote speakers at #ICWSM 2025: Silvia Merisio, Policy officer in the DSA team of the European Commission “From Regulation to Research: The DSA’s Impact on Social Data Science” + Panel Discussion 📅 June 24 🕑 9 AM 📍CSS 35.01.05