T Mitra, E Gilbert - Proceedings of the international AAAI conference on …, 2015 - ojs.aaai.org
Social media has quickly risen to prominence as a news source, yet lingering doubts remain about its ability to spread rumor and misinformation. Systematically studying this …
Citing opinions is a powerful yet understudied strategy in argumentation. For example, an environmental activist might say," Leading scientists agree that global warming is a serious …
In the past half-decade, Amazon Mechanical Turk has radically changed the way many scholars do research. The availability of a massive, distributed, anonymous crowd of …
T Mitra, GP Wright, E Gilbert - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM conference …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Social media has increasingly become central to the way billions of people experience news and events, often bypassing journalists---the traditional gatekeepers of breaking news …
As news organizations embrace transparency practices on their websites to distinguish themselves from those spreading misinformation, HCI designers have the opportunity to …
Narratives are fundamental to our perception of the world and are pervasive in all activities that involve the representation of events in time. Yet, modern online information systems do …
V Niculae, C Suen, J Zhang… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Given the extremely large pool of events and stories available, media outlets need to focus on a subset of issues and aspects to convey to their audience. Outlets are often accused of …
Certainty and uncertainty are fundamental to science communication. Hedges have widely been used as proxies for uncertainty. However, certainty is a complex construct, with authors …