A depressing juxtaposition of news stories, there is such a disconnect in the national conversation.

A public figure directly calling for violence against trans people is met with police sympathy and instead we get phone ban campaigns to tackle online harms 🙃.

For even more WikiResearch at #IC2S2, I'm presenting our work on WikiReddit on Wednesday 14:30 in 'Social Media II' 🧑‍💻

I'll explain how these complementary platforms are powered by the magic of ✨𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲✨, and how our dataset can be used to study cross-platform flows of information and attention 🔀

Great session on Wikipedia at #IC2S2 with some very cool research. Strong themes of multilingual analysis and coordination dynamics

@smfsamir.bsky.social
@feloe.bsky.social

Had a great time meeting everyone and seeing all the interesting work @icwsm.bsky.social. I presented our study on the Wikireddit dataset - exploring Wikipedia’s role in fact-checking, discussion, and cross-platform attention on the web. Thank you to the organisers!

📄: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

Important starter pack research in action! I received lots of follow notifications during this talk - hopefully this work prompts more ICWSM activity here!

Very cool work at #ICWSM tracking information manipulation in response to national regulation on the Russian Wikipedia fork

From Mykola Trokhymovych, @elaragon.bsky.social, @e-migrante.bsky.social & others

On exploratory analysis, we find:
📉 Declining activity in posts, but stable performance of Wikipedia content on Reddit
🔗 Strong correlations between Wikipedia and Reddit activity
🌍 Intriguing asymmetric patterns of cross-lingual linking, dominated by English

📂 The SQL database contains:
- All Reddit posts and comments mentioning Wikipedia 2020-23, including hyperlinks, hashed IDs, and metadata.
- Edit history and page view activity for Wikipedia articles at the time of posting, page IDs, and redirects.

📄 Excited to share a new dataset preprint!
WikiReddit: Tracing Information and Attention Flows Between Online Platforms
A collaboration with @beeeeeers.bsky.social, Viviane Ito, Agustin Orozco, and @ftripodi.bsky.social at @citap.bsky.social .

🔍With FORUM, we find dramatic differences in how different, even simple, algorithms prioritise different kinds of comments, as measured by their sentiment, readability, lexical diversity, and similarity to the article

📈We develop the Feature-Oriented Ranking Utility Metric (FORUM 🥁) to evaluate how well a ranking algorithm (most upvoted, chronological, etc) returns comments by a certain feature (sentiment, readability, etc) compared to best/worst-possible and random baseline

🕵️With data from @derStandardat, we find, compared to readers, journalists prefer more positive, timely, complex, direct responses, while readers favour comments similar to article content from elite authors

🚨New preprint!
📰The News Comment Gap and Algorithmic Agenda Setting in Online Forums w/ Flora Böwing

We study:
1) The differences in comment preferences between journalists and readers
2) How comment ranking algorithms prioritise different kinds of comments to display to users 🧵

Excited to be at #IC2S2 2024! I’ll be presenting “The News Comment Gap and Algorithmic Agenda Setting in Online Forums” in session 3C, Friday 11am. Say hi if you want to connect👋

Super proud of my MSc supervisees who graduated from LSE last week. All achieved distinctions in their dissertations and degrees, including the top MSc project award! 🎉