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BESC 2026 is coming to Bangkok,Thailand! The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing will be held from 26–28 October 2026. https://besc-conf.org/2026
Submission Deadline: 01 June 2026. Focus on AI, NLP, computational social science, behavioural and psychological sciences. #SocialComputing #AI #NLP #BehaviouralComputing

We are pleased to announce that the first issue of ACM Transactions on Social Computing (2026) is now released! #ACM #SocialComputing @ACM @sigchi https://dl.acm.org/toc/tsc/2026/9/1

Can we have a safer internet without constant censorship? 🔍

Our latest research says yes - but we need better tools. We developed a more precise classifier that tells the difference between someone being offensive and someone actually inciting violence.

We tested it on 3.5M Gab posts and found that AI (with the right prompting) is getting much better at understanding that crucial gray area.

Details for the #TrustAndSafety and #SocialComputing community: https://blog.corifaklaris.com/2026/03/04/developing-a-precise-approach-to-identifying-inciting-speech-online/

Can we have a safer internet without constant censorship? 🔍

Our latest research says yes - but we need better tools. We developed a more precise classifier that tells the difference between someone being offensive and someone actually inciting violence.

We tested it on 3.5M Gab posts and found that AI (with the right prompting) is getting much better at understanding that crucial gray area.

Details for the #TrustAndSafety and #SocialComputing community: https://blog.corifaklaris.com/2026/03/04/developing-a-precise-approach-to-identifying-inciting-speech-online/

Trust in tech is more than just code. New #CSCW2025 research uncovers how trust is built in Chinese NFT communities. The study finds that traditional Confucian values like "guanxi" (social connections) and "mianzi" (face) are crucial, shaping technological, institutional, and social trust.

This qualitative analysis of WeChat groups and interviews offers vital insights for designing trustworthy decentalized communities.

#HCI #SocialComputing #NFTs

https://tinyurl.com/jade-gateway-cscw2025

Our paper "EasyHypergraph: an open-source software for fast and memory-saving analysis and learning of higher-order networks" has been published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (a Nature Portfolio Journal). In this work, we present EasyHypergraph, a comprehensive, computationally efficient, and storage-saving hypergraph computational library. Any comment is very welcome! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05180-5 @nature.portfolio #hypergraph #socialcomputing #nature #research

Your submissions and special issue proposals to ACM Transactions on Social Computing are warmly welcomed! Let me know if you have any question. @ACM #ACM #socialcomputing

Our next #HCIISeminarSeries guest is David Widder @davidthewid, postdoctoral fellow at Cornell Tech Digital Life Initiative (and
@scsatcmu.bsky.social
alumnus)! Join us.

🎙️AI Supply Chains: Tools to Locate Power & Responsibility in AI Production for Critical, Accountable Computing

📅Friday, January 31

🕜1:30-2:30pm

📍NSH 1305+livestream

🔗https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/event/2025/01/hcii-seminar-series-david-widder

#CarnegieMellon #ComputerScience #HumanComputerInteraction #CriticalComputing #SocialComputing #ResponsibleAI

Welcome to submit to our Special Issue on "Artificial Intelligence for Social Computing" in Tsinghua Science and Technology (due: May 10, 2025)! https://www.sciopen.com/journal/message_news/get_by_id?id=1877234468479660033&issn=1007-0214 #ai #socialcomputing #socialmedia

This Friday, our next #HCIISeminarSeries guest will be Amy Bruckman, Regents’ Professor, School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Join us!

🎙️ "The Crisis in 'Knowledge': What HCI Practitioners Need to Know, and What We Can Do"

📅 Friday, March 1

🕜 1:30pm

📍 NSH 1305 + livestream

🔗 Details: https://buff.ly/3uQEO86

#cmuhcii #HumanComputerInteraction #SocialComputing

📣 Calling all #academics #scientists and #researchers of Mastodon. 👩‍🔬

Following on from my previous thread a few months back now (https://mastodonapp.uk/@jrashf/110205174439235868), why should social scientists and the wider research community be interested in Mastodon?

I'm thinking of putting together a research proposal and I would really appreciate your ideas.

Please consider boosting! :ivory_boost:

#socialmedia #research #mastodon #fediverse #socialcomputing #socialnetwork #study

The past few days I've been thinking a lot again about one of the thought/design models most influential on my own #OpenSource practice: Frank Duffy's architectural pace layers (and Stewart Brand's subsequent extension to different contexts), their different timescales and interactions as basis for resilient system design:

1. Each layer exists & operates independently, moves at different timescales (from seconds to millennia and beyond)
2. Each layer influences and only interacts with its direct neighbors

"Fast layers innovate, slow ones stabilize." — S.Brand

I always found that model super helpful for analyzing and deciding how to deal with individual projects and components in terms of focus/effort, and asking myself which layer this thing might/should be part of. Lately though, I keep on trying to figure out how to better utilize that model to orient my own future practice, also with respect to the loose theme of #PermaComputing and how to frame and better organize my own approaches to it, incl. how to reanimate or repurpose some of the related, discontinued, but not invalid research & projects I've been doing along these lines over the past 15 years...

I understand and appreciate most of the focus on #FrugalComputing & #RetroComputing-derived simplicity as starting points and grounding concepts for attempting to build a more sustainable, personal, comprehensible and maintainable tech, but these too can quickly become overly dogmatic and maybe too constraining to ever become "truly" permanent (at least on the horizon of a few decades). I think the biggest hurdles to overcome are social rather than technological (e.g. a need for post-consumerist, post-spectacular behaviors), so I'm even more interested in Illich/Papert/Nelson/Felsenstein-inspired #ConvivialComputing, #SocialComputing, IO/comms/p2p, #Accessibility, UI, protocol and other resiliency design aspects becoming a core part of that research and think the idea of pace layering can be a very powerful tool to take into consideration here too, at the very least for guiding (and questioning) how to approach and structure any perma-computing related research itself...

Given the current physical and political climate shifts, is it better to continue working "upwards" (aka #BottomUpDesign), i.e. primarily focusing on first defining slow moving, low-level layers as new/alternative foundations (an example here would be the flurry of VM projects, incl. my own)? Or, is it more fruitful and does the situation instead call for a more urgent focus on fast-moving pace layer experiments and continuously accumulating learnings as fallout/sediment to allow the formation of increasingly more stable, but also more holistically informed, slower moving structural layers to build upon further?

It's a bit of chicken vs. egg! In my mind, right now the best approach seems to be a two-pronged one, alternating from both sides, each time informing upcoming work/experiments on the opposite end (fast/slow) and each time involving an as diverse as possible set of non-techbro minds from various fields... 🤔

Personal: I am very happy to announce that I have accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the University of Groningen. Looking forward to further collaborations, and am glad to continue working within the Information Systems Group at the Bernoulli Institute.

@academicchatter get in touch if you are working on #networkscience, #datascience, #misinformation, #polarization, #privacy, #crowdsourcing #SocialComputing #complexsystems @academicsunite

HiveMind: Is there any work on the notion of "algorithmic anger" or something similar?

I define AA (yes, pun intended) as the anger we feel when the algorithmic mediations in our lives (e.g., social media) screw us over (e.g., shadowban, deboost, etc.).

It's revealing how much frustration a broken algorithm can create. It's a testament to how much our lives are governed by black boxed, arbitrary, and broken algorithmic systems.

#academia #academicchatter #socialcomputing #research

Calling all #academics #scientists and #researchers of Mastodon. In the context of social media and the role of the Fediverse, what areas of research are poorly understood or under-researched? What are consider up-and-coming and novel?

#socialmedia #research #mastodon #fediverse #socialcomputing #socialnetwork #study

#recruiting for internships, PhD students, post-docs, academic positions, or non-academic positions focused on research in #socialcomputing or #computationalsocialscience?

Post your call in https://www.reddit.com/r/CompSocial/ to target our growing community of students, researchers, and practitioners!

Thought I'd post an (academic) #introduction. :D I am an Assistant Professor at the University of #Groningen, with current research focus on #largscale #networkanalysis (#networkscience) working within the #InformationSystems Group; I previously worked on #humancomputation (don't like the term), #socialcomputing, #distributedsystems at #tuwien. Interested in socio-tech. issues, including #ethics #privacy, tech #policy
#academicsofmastodon #complexnetworks #complexsystems
@academicchatter

We're so close to 100 members over at https://www.reddit.com/r/CompSocial/ -- come join the fun!

CompSocial is intended to be a hub for folks across the social computing / computational social science space to share resources, engage in discussions, and learn about what's new in the field.

#socialcomputing #CSCW #computationalsocialscience #hci #CHI #ICWSM

WAYRT? (What Are You Reading Today)

We're starting a new Wednesday tradition at CompSocial...

Come by and tell us about the papers, blog posts, tutorials, articles, anything that you've been reading lately that might be of interest to the broader #socialcomputing / #onlinecommunities / #computationalsocialscience community.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CompSocial/comments/z2ratr/wayrt/

We're at 42 members and counting over at https://www.reddit.com/r/CompSocial/

Please come join us if this feels relevant to you and your work. We're hoping to make this a valuable source of community-contributed content, including paper links and discussions, CFPs, academic/industry job postings, and more.

#HCI #socialcomputing #computationalSocialScience #CSCW2022 #ICWSM #contentmoderation

We're at 42 members and counting over at https://www.reddit.com/r/CompSocial/

Please come join us if this feels relevant to you and your work. We're hoping to make this a valuable source of community-contributed content, including paper links and discussions, CFPs, academic/industry job postings, and more.

#HCI #socialcomputing #computationalSocialScience #CSCW2022 #ICWSM #contentmoderation

We're at 42 members and counting over at https://www.reddit.com/r/CompSocial/

Please come join us if this feels relevant to you and your work. We're hoping to make this a valuable source of community-contributed content, including paper links and discussions, CFPs, academic/industry job postings, and more.

#HCI #socialcomputing #computationalSocialScience #CSCW2022 #ICWSM #contentmoderation

We're at 42 members and counting over at https://www.reddit.com/r/CompSocial/

Please come join us if this feels relevant to you and your work. We're hoping to make this a valuable source of community-contributed content, including paper links and discussions, CFPs, academic/industry job postings, and more.

#HCI #socialcomputing #computationalSocialScience #CSCW2022 #ICWSM #contentmoderation

For all my #HCI / #SocialComputing / #CompSocSci friends here, I'm excited that we have Mastodon as a space to support this community in the post-Twitter times.

I think Reddit could serve a valuable auxiliary function as a place to host lasting discussions across the community. Join me at https://reddit.com/r/CompSocial/ and let's co-create a thriving community there!

#CHI #CSCW #ICWSM

Just had a great time presenting on "Crafting Social Experiences Online" in @asb's "Design of Online Communities" class. The students, as always, had fantastic questions.

If you're teaching a social computing class in the spring and are looking for guest speakers 👋🏽

#HCI #socialcomputing #onlinecommunities

Is anyone familiar with prior work that explores *who* provides feedback in online communities?

There is some work on identifying "experts" in knowledge-sharing communities, but is there research identifying what kinds of users are doing the social/community work of welcoming and encouraging new participants?

Any pointers at all, even peripherally relevant, would be appreciated!

#HCI #socialcomputing #computationalSocialScience #litreview

Been thinking more about how to introduce “design friction” to improve our online interactions. Mastodon has many, such as the lack of a quote-post function, that constrain virality. But, we lose the pro-social effects of virality, such as visibility into a conversation going on outside of our own “filter bubble.”

More on the antivirality of Mastodon: https://uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51

#ux #userexperience #HCI #CSCW #socialcomputing #socialmedia #design #News

hi #hci #cscw #SocialComputing folks! Tomorrow 10-11am ET, Michael Nebeling is hosting an office hour for #phd applicants in technical HCI. I'll be participating with @parastoo, @dj, and Amy Pavel. We'll discuss some of the questions that we've been compiling at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UJ3MjbQJbB3tZ1qcdIw4NghPsUcBTCEJTH8YUFNaVRA/edit

the range of research interests we span (words! sights! sounds! VR!) gives a good indication of our intended scope, so we're hoping the session will be helpful for lots of people interested in doing a PhD!

Quick heads-up that we will be presenting this work on measuring/predicting "Sense of Virtual Community" within Twitch Channels in one hour (6-7PM PST), at the "Online Communities & Inclusivity" session at #CSCW2022

https://twitter.com/skairam/status/1565454931481354241

#HCI #socialmedia #socialcomputing #computationalsocialscience

Apparently people share a toot with hashtags related to what they do to make themselves discoverable for their communities on other instances. So: #NZTwits #emergence #evolution #complexityscience #networkscience #informatics #socialcomputing #datascience #cscw #computationalSocialScience #academics #academidon #newzealand #nlproc #computerscience #deutschsprachige #Germany #expat #wellington

Apparently people share a toot with hashtags related to what they do to make themselves discoverable for their communities on other instances. So: #NZTwits #emergence #evolution #complexityscience #networkscience #informatics #socialcomputing #datascience #cscw #computationalSocialScience #academics #academidon #newzealand #nlproc #computerscience #deutschsprachige #Germany #expat #wellington

Apparently people share a toot with hashtags related to what they do to make themselves discoverable for their communities on other instances. So: #NZTwits #emergence #evolution #complexityscience #networkscience #informatics #socialcomputing #datascience #cscw #computationalSocialScience #academics #academidon #newzealand #nlproc #computerscience #deutschsprachige #Germany #expat #wellington

Apparently people share a toot with hashtags related to what they do to make themselves discoverable for their communities on other instances. So: #NZTwits #emergence #evolution #complexityscience #networkscience #informatics #socialcomputing #datascience #cscw #computationalSocialScience #academics #academidon #newzealand #nlproc #computerscience #deutschsprachige #Germany #expat #wellington

This switch from #twitter to #mastodon is going to lead to quite a few #research #papers about the phenomenon, and the differences in experiences, organization, access, barriers, processes, and outcomes with this federated model. #twittermigration #SocialComputing #STS #HCI