publications

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2024

  1. Echo Chambers in the Age of Algorithms: An Audit of Twitter’s Friend Recommender System
    Kayla DuskinJoseph S SchaferJevin D West, and Emma S Spiro
    In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference, 2024
  2. Beyond Initial Removal: Lasting Impacts of Discriminatory Content Moderation to Marginalized Creators on Instagram
    Yim RegisterIzzi Grasso, Lauren N Weingarten, Lilith Fury, Constanza Eliana Chinea, Tuck J Malloy, and Emma S Spiro
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2024
  3. ElectionRumors2022: A dataset of election rumors on Twitter during the 2022 US midterms
    Joseph S SchaferKayla Duskin, Stephen Prochaska, Morgan Wack, Anna Beers, Lia Bozarth, Taylor Agajanian, Mike Caulfield, Emma S Spiro, and Kate Starbird
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.16051, 2024
  4. Rumors Have Rules
    Emma S Spiro, and Kate Starbird
    Republished in American Scientist, 2024

2023

  1. Rumors Have Rules: Decades-old research about how and why people share rumors is even more relevant in a world with social media.
    Emma S Spiro, and Kate Starbird
    Issues in Science & Technology, 2023
  2. Spotlight Tweets: A Lens for Exploring Attention Dynamics within Online Sensemaking During Crisis Events
    Kaitlyn Zhou, Tom Wilson, Kate Starbird, and Emma S Spiro
    ACM Transactions on Social Computing, 2023
  3. Followback clusters, satellite audiences, and bridge nodes: coengagement networks for the 2020 US election
    Andrew BeersJoseph S SchaferIan Kennedy, Morgan Wack, Emma S Spiro, and Kate Starbird
    In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2023
  4. Attached to “The algorithm”: Making sense of algorithmic precarity on instagram
    Yim Register, Lucy Qin, Amanda Baughan, and Emma S Spiro
    In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023
  5. Selective and deceptive citation in the construction of dueling consensuses
    Anna Beers, Sarah Nguyễn, Kate StarbirdJevin D West, and Emma S Spiro
    Science Advances, 2023

2022

  1. Developing Self-Advocacy Skills through Machine Learning Education: The Case of Ad Recommendation on Facebook
    Yim Register, and Emma S Spiro
    In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2022
  2. Repeat spreaders and election delegitimization: a comprehensive dataset of misinformation tweets from the 2020 US election
    Ian Kennedy, Morgan Wack, Andrew BeersJoseph S Schafer, Isabella Garcia-Camargo, Emma S Spiro, and Kate Starbird
    Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2022
  3. Temporal trends in health worker social media communication during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Julian D Ford, Davide Marengo, Miranda Olff, Cherie Armour, Jon D Elhai, Zack Almquist, and Emma S Spiro
    Research in Nursing & Health, 2022
  4. Community-based strategies for combating misinformation: Learning from a popular culture fandom
    Jin Ha Lee, Nicole Santero, Arpita Bhattacharya, Emma May, and Emma S Spiro
    Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2022

2021

  1. Nobody puts redditor in a binary: Digital demography, collective identities, and gender in a subreddit network
    Leo G Stewart, and Emma S Spiro
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2021
  2. Rejecting Science With Science: Boundary-Work In Anti-Mask Twitter Reply Threads During COVID-19
    Andrew Beers, Sarah Nguyễn, Emma S Spiro, and Kate Starbird
    AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2021
  3. How do you solve a problem like misinformation?
    Ryan Calo, Chris Coward, Emma S Spiro, Kate Starbird, and Jevin D West
    Science Advances, 2021

2020

  1. Misinformation, Crisis, and Public Health—Reviewing the Literature
    Kate Starbird, Emma S. Spiro, and Kolina Koltai
    2020

2019

  1. "Friending" in Online Fitness Communities: Exploring Activity-Based Online Network Structure
    Li ZengZack Almquist, and Emma S Spiro
    In Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2019
  2. Keeping rumors in proportion: managing uncertainty in rumor systems
    PM Krafft, and Emma S Spiro
    In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019
  3. Detecting journalism in the age of social media: three experiments in classifying journalists on twitter
    Li Zeng, Dharma Dailey, Owla Mohamed, Kate Starbird, and Emma S Spiro
    In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2019
  4. Unbiased sampling of users from (online) activity data
    Zack W Almquist, Sakshi Arya, Li Zeng, and Emma S Spiro
    Field Methods, 2019

2018

  1. Stay connected and keep motivated: Modeling activity level of exercise in an online fitness community
    Li ZengZack W Almquist, and Emma S Spiro
    In Social Computing and Social Media. Technologies and Analytics: 10th International Conference, SCSM 2018, Held as Part of HCI International 2018, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 15-20, 2018, Proceedings, Part II 10, 2018
  2. # drunktwitter: Examining the relations between alcohol-related Twitter content and alcohol willingness and use among underage young adults
    Dana M Litt, Melissa A Lewis, Emma S Spiro, Lovenoor Aulck, Katja A Waldron, Maya K Head-Corliss, and Alex Swanson
    Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2018
  3. Promises and pitfalls of using digital traces for demographic research
    Nina Cesare, Hedwig Lee, Tyler McCormick, Emma S Spiro, and Emilio Zagheni
    Demography, 2018
  4. Engage early, correct more: How journalists participate in false rumors online during crisis events
    Kate Starbird, Dharma Dailey, Owla Mohamed, Gina Lee, and Emma S Spiro
    In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018

2017

  1. Centralized, parallel, and distributed information processing during collective sensemaking
    P. KrafftKaitlyn Zhou, Isabelle Edwards, Kate Starbird, and Emma S Spiro
    In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017
  2. Alternative narratives of crisis events: Communities and social botnets engaged on social media
    A Conrad Nied, Leo Stewart, Emma S Spiro, and Kate Starbird
    In Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CWSW), 2017
  3. Non-lexical features encode political affiliation on twitter
    Rachael Tatman, Leo Stewart, Amandalynne Paullada, and Emma S Spiro
    In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science, 2017
  4. Let’s Workout! Exploring Social Exercise in an Online Fitness Community
    Li ZengZack W Almquist, and Emma S Spiro
    iConference 2017 Proceedings Vol. 2, 2017
  5. Language Limitations in Rumor Research? Comparing French and English Tweets Sent During the 2015 Paris Attacks.
    Tom Wilson, Stephanie A Stanek, Emma S Spiro, and Kate Starbird
    In Annual Global Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), 2017
  6. Shifting attention: Modeling follower relationship dynamics among us emergency management-related organizations during a colorado wildfire
    Zack W Almquist, Emma S Spiro, and Carter T Butts
    In Social network analysis of disaster response, recovery, and adaptation, 2017
  7. Drawing the lines of contention: Networked frame contests within# BlackLivesMatter discourse
    Leo Graiden Stewart, Ahmer Arif, A Conrad Nied, Emma S Spiro, and Kate Starbird
    PACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2017
  8. Using Twitter for demographic and social science research: tools for data collection and processing
    Tyler H McCormick, Hedwig Lee, Nina Cesare, Ali Shojaie, and Emma S Spiro
    Sociological Methods & Research, 2017

2016

  1. Rumors at the Speed of Light? Modeling the Rate of Rumor Transmission during Crisis
    Li ZengKate Starbird, and Emma S Spiro
    In In Proceedings of the 49th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS), 2016
  2. How Information Snowballs
    Ahmer Arif, Kelley Shanahan, Fang-Ju Chou, Yoanna Dosouto, Kate Starbird, and Emma S Spiro
    In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, 2016
  3. Keeping Up with the Tweet-dashians: The Impact of ‘Official’Accounts on Online Rumoring
    Cynthia Andrews, Elodie Fichet, Yuwei Ding, Emma S Spiro, and Kate Starbird
    In In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2016
  4. Shifting stakes: Understanding the dynamic roles of individuals and organizations in social media protests
    Emma S Spiro, and Andrés Monroy-Hernández
    PloS ONE, 2016
  5. Research opportunities at the intersection of social media and survey data
    Emma S Spiro
    Current Opinion in Psychology, 2016
  6. The persistence of division: Geography, institutions, and online friendship ties
    Emma S Spiro, Zack W Almquist, and Carter T Butts
    Socius, 2016
  7. Could this be true? I think so! Expressed uncertainty in online rumoring
    Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro, Isabelle Edwards, Kaitlyn Zhou, Jim Maddock, and Sindhuja Narasimhan
    In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016
  8. # unconfirmed: Classifying rumor stance in crisis-related social media messages
    Li ZengKate Starbird, and Emma S Spiro
    In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2016
  9. Networks of gratitude: Structures of thanks and user expectations in workplace appreciation systems
    Emma S Spiro, J Nathan Matias, and Andrés Monroy-Hernández
    In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2016
  10. Spatio-temporal filtering techniques for the detection of disaster-related communication
    Sean M Fitzhugh, C Ben Gibson, Emma S Spiro, and Carter T Butts
    Social Science Research, 2016
  11. Thumbs up for privacy?: Differences in online self-disclosure behavior across national cultures
    Philip J Reed, Emma S Spiro, and Carter T Butts
    Social Science Research, 2016
  12. Crisis in a Foreign Language: Emergency Services and Limited English Populations.
    Amirah M Majid, and Emma S Spiro
    In Annual Global Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), 2016

2015

  1. A cross-hazard analysis of terse message retransmission on Twitter
    Jeannette Sutton, C Ben Gibson, Nolan Edward Phillips, Emma S Spiro, Cedar League, Britta Johnson, Sean M Fitzhugh, and Carter T Butts
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015
  2. Using Facebook data to examine culture and self-disclosure behaviors
    Philip J Reed, Emma S Spiro, and Carter T Butts
    iConference 2015 Proceedings, 2015
  3. Expressed Uncertainty and Denials as Signals of Online Rumoring
    Kate Starbird, Emma S Spiro, Ahmer Arif, Fang-Ju Chou, and Sindhuja Narasimham
    In Collective Intelligence Conference., 2015

2014

  1. Warning tweets: Serial transmission of messages during the warning phase of a disaster event
    Jeannette Sutton, Emma S Spiro, Britta Johnson, Sean Fitzhugh, Ben Gibson, and Carter T Butts
    Information, Communication & Society, 2014
  2. Online message amplification in the boston bombing response
    Jeannette N Sutton, Emma S Spiro, Sean Fitzhugh, Britta Johnson, Ben Gibson, and Carter T Butts
    In Proceedings of the Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference (ISCRAM), 2014
  3. Is anyone out there? Unpacking Q&A hashtags on Twitter
    Jeffrey M Rzeszotarski, Emma S Spiro, Jorge Nathan Matias, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, and Meredith Ringel Morris
    In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014
  4. Terse message amplification in the Boston bombing response.
    Jeannette N Sutton, Emma S Spiro, Sean M Fitzhugh, Britta Johnson, C Ben Gibson, and Carter T Butts
    In Annual Global Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), 2014
  5. Online Information Behaviors During Disaster Events: Roles, Routines, and Reactions
    Harrison T Reeder, Tyler H McCormick, and Emma S Spiro
    2014

2013

  1. Tweeting the spill: Online informal communications, social networks, and conversational microstructures during the Deepwater Horizon oilspill
    Jeannette Sutton, Emma Spiro, Carter Butts, Sean Fitzhugh, Britta Johnson, and Matt Greczek
    International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM), 2013
  2. Extended structures of mediation: Re-examining brokerage in dynamic networks
    Emma S Spiro, Ryan M Acton, and Carter T Butts
    Social Networks, 2013

2012

  1. Rumoring during extreme events: A case study of Deepwater Horizon 2010
    Emma S Spiro, Sean Fitzhugh, Jeannette Sutton, Nicole Pierski, Matt Greczek, and Carter T Butts
    In Proceedings of the 4th Annual ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci12), 2012
  2. Connected Communications: Network Structures of Official Communications in a Technological Disaster
    Jeannette N Sutton, Emma S Spiro, Britta Johnson, Sean M Fitzhugh, Mathew Greczek, and Carter T Butts
    In In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM). Vancouver, Canada., 2012
  3. Waiting for a Retweet: Modeling Waiting Times in Information Propagation
    Emma S Spiro, CA Irvine, Christopher L DuBois, and Carter T Butts
    In 2012 NIPS Workshop of Social Networks and Social Media, 2012

2009

  1. The h-index of a graph and its application to dynamic subgraph statistics
    David Eppstein, and Emma S Spiro
    In Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, 2009