Misinformation as a Window into Prejudice: COVID-19 and the Information Environment in India

SZ Akbar, A Panda, D Kukreti, A Meena… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis, there has been a massive amount of misinformation
both related to the condition, and a range of linked social and economic issues. We present …

Electoral patterns and voting behavior of Bihar in Assembly elections from 2010 to 2020: a spatial analysis

F Biswas - GeoJournal, 2023 - Springer
The present research paper develops its theme with a special focus on Bihar State
Assembly elections analysis. It concentrates on the social groups' electoral pattern and …

Nivaduck-a scalable pipeline to build a database of political twitter handles for india and the united states

A Panda, A Gonawela, S Acharyya, D Mishra… - … Conference on Social …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We present a scalable methodology to identify Twitter handles of politicians in a given
region and test our framework in the context of Indian and US politics. The main contribution …

Capitol (Pat) riots: A comparative study of Twitter and Parler

A Prabhu, D Guhathakurta, M Subramanian… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
On 6 January 2021, a mob of right-wing conservatives stormed the USA Capitol Hill
interrupting the session of congress certifying 2020 Presidential election results …

A survey on computational politics

EU Haq, T Braud, YD Kwon, P Hui - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computational Politics is the study of computational methods to analyze and moderate
users' behaviors related to political activities such as election campaign persuasion, political …

Political hazard: Misinformation in the 2019 Indian general election campaign

SZ Akbar, A Panda, J Pal - South Asian history and culture, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Misinformation on social media in the 2019 general election not only reached people
through forwarded WhatsApp messages, but often circulated online through legitimate …

Narrative building in propaganda networks on indian twitter

S Dash, A Arya, S Kaur, J Pal - Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The misuse of social media platforms to influence public opinion through propaganda
campaigns are a cause of rising concern globally. Particularly, countries like India, where …

Anatomy of a Rumour: Social media and the suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput

SZ Akbar, A Sharma, H Negi, A Panda, J Pal - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
The suicide of Indian actor Sushant Singh Rajput in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown
triggered a media frenzy of prime time coverage that lasted several months and became a …

The Koo Dataset: An Indian Microblogging Platform With Global Ambitions

A Mekacher, M Falkenberg, A Baronchelli - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Increasingly, alternative platforms are playing a key role in the social media ecosystem. Koo,
a microblogging platform based in India, has emerged as a major new social network …

A tale of two sides: Study of protesters and counter-protesters on# citizenshipamendmentact campaign on twitter

K Neha, V Agrawal, V Kumar, T Mohan… - Proceedings of the 14th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Online social media platforms have evolved into a significant place for debate around socio-
political phenomena such as government policies and bills. Studying online debates on …