no code implementations • 31 Jan 2024 • Mowafak Allaham, Nicholas Diakopoulos
Moreover, we find that these LLMs generate impacts that largely reflect the taxonomy of negative impacts identified in the news media, however the impacts produced by instruction-based models had gaps in the production of certain categories of impacts in comparison to fine-tuned models.
no code implementations • 12 Nov 2023 • Sachita Nishal, Jasmine Sinchai, Nicholas Diakopoulos
Overall, our findings contribute a richer view of the sociotechnical system around computational news discovery tools, and suggest ways to improve such tools to better support the practices of science journalists.
no code implementations • 14 Dec 2020 • Jack Bandy, Nicholas Diakopoulos
Motivated by TikTok's surge in popularity and its growing sociopolitical implications, this work explores the role of TikTok's recommender algorithm in amplifying call-to-action videos that promoted collective action against the Tulsa rally.
Human-Computer Interaction Computers and Society Social and Information Networks
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2014 • Yelena Mejova, Amy X. Zhang, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Carlos Castillo
We find that in general, when it comes to controversial issues, the use of negative affect and biased language is prevalent, while the use of strong emotion is tempered.
