There is growing evidence of systematic attempts to influence democratic elections by
controlled and digitally organized dissemination of fake news. This raises the question of the …

As a research tradition, participatory design (PD) tends to focus on power dynamics where
researchers hold greater power than participants. This paper uses design fiction to consider …

Can a series of online conversations with a marginalized outgroup member improve majority
group members' attitudes about that outgroup? While the intergroup contact literature …

Understanding the spread of online rumors is a pressing societal challenge and an active
area of research across domains. In the context of the 2022 US midterm elections, one …

Traditional research ethics has mainly and rightly been focused on making sure that
participants are treated safely, justly, and ethically, to avoid the violation of their rights or …

Facebook-now called Meta acquired WhatsApp because of how closed-circle social media
applications can disrupt open-interactive online traffic that readily attracts advertisers …

In our post-lock era, the use of micro social networking such as WhatsApp chats has
increased. The popularity of such nuanced virtual interactions has inspired businesses to …

One of the major endeavors of science and engineering is to study and predict the behavior
of large dynamical systems. It includes a myriad of problems–from weather prediction to …