Conference Programme | 30 August – 2 September 2021
The programme will take place on Zoom according to Irish Summer Time (GMT+1).
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The conference proceedings are currently available here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3465336
30th August 2021 – Workshops
11:00 – 14:30 4th Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (HUMAN’21)
11:00 – 14:30 Open Challenges in Online Social Networks (OASIS)
15:00 – 18:30 9th International Workshop on Narrative and Hypertext (NHT)
31st August 2021 – Day 1
11:15 – 11:50 Welcome Session
- with a special announcement from Vint Cerf and Frode Hegland
12:00 – 13:00 Plenary Keynote Address (Chair: Annalina Caputo)
- Towards an Archive of the Future: Reconstructing Ireland’s Lost History through the Beyond 2022 Project (Prof. Peter Crooks, Trinity College Dublin & Dr. Gary Munnelly, Trinity College Dublin)
13:00 – 13:30 –BREAK—
13:30 – 14:30 Session 1: Hate Speech (Chair: Brendan Spillane)
- Hate Speech in Political Discourse: A Case Study of UK MPs on Twitter (Pushkal Agarwal, Oli Hawkins, Margarita Amaxopoulou, Noel Dempsey, Nishanth Sastry and Edward Wood) – FULL PAPER
- Cross-lingual Capsule Network for Hate Speech Detection in Social Media (Aiqi Jiang and Arkaitz Zubiaga) – SHORT PAPER
- You too Brutus! Trapping Hateful Users in Social Media: Challenges, Solutions & Insights (Mithun Das, Punyajoy Saha, Ritam Dutt, Pawan Goyal, Animesh Mukherjee and Binny Mathew) – FULL PAPER
15:00 – 16:00 Session 2: Emotions (Chair: Owen Conlan)
- Emojis and Words to Contextualize Mourning on Twitter (Xinyuan Xu, Rubén Francisco Manrique and Bernardo Pereira Nunes) – SHORT PAPER
- Rotten and Possessed: ‘Control’ and ‘Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice’ as Models of Outmersive Game Design (P.S. Berge)- FULL PAPER
16:00 – 16:30 –BREAK—
16:30 – 17:30 Session 3: Controversies (Chair: Claus Atzenbeck)
- Regularity versus novelty of users’ multimodal comment patterns and dynamics as markers of social media radicalization (Aaron Necaise, Aneka Williams, Hana Vrzakova and Mary Jean Amon) – SHORT PAPER
- Road to the White House: Analyzing the Relations Between Mainstream and Social Media During the U.S. Presidential Primaries (Aaron Brookhouse, Tyler Derr, Hamid Karimi, H. Russell Bernard and Jiliang Tang) – FULL PAPER
- Incorporating the Measurement of Moral Foundations Theory in Analyzing Stances on Controversial Topics (Rezvaneh Rezapour, Ly Dinh and Jana Diesner) – FULL PAPER
18:00 – 19:00 Session 4: Language and Identity (Chair: Eelco Herder)
- A Simple Language Independent Approach for Distinguishing Individuals on Social Media (Guangyuan Piao) – SHORT PAPER
- Profiling Fake News Spreaders on Social Media through Psychological and Motivational Factors (Mansooreh Karami, Tahora Hossein Nazer and Huan Liu) – SHORT PAPER
- Exploring User Concerns about Disclosing Location and Emotion Information in Group Recommendations (Shabnam Najafian, Tim Draws, Francesco Barile, Marko Tkalcic, Jie Yang and Nava Tintarev) – FULL PAPER
1st September 2021 – Day 2
11:00 – 12:00 Plenary Keynote Address (Chair: Nicole Basaraba)
- Multimodality and Hypertext: Theoretical and empirical considerations (Prof. Dr. John Bateman, Bremen University, Germany & Assist. Prof. Dr. Tuomo Hiippala, University of Helsinki, Finland)
12:00 – 13:00 Session 5: Deception and Attacks (Chair: Pushkal Agarwal)
- DECIFE: Detecting Collusive Users Involved in Blackmarket Following Services on Twitter (Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Kartik Aggarwal and Tanmoy Chakraborty) – FULL PAPER
- Structack: Structure-based Adversarial Attacks on Graph Neural Networks (Hussain Hussain, Tomislav Duricic, Elisabeth Lex, Denis Helic, Markus Strohmaier and Roman Kern) – FULL PAPER
13:00 – 13:30 –BREAK—
13:30 – 15:00 Session 6: LBR, DC, and Blue Sky (Chair: Erick Elejalde)
Late Breaking Results Papers
- Examining Global Mobile Diffusion and Mobile Gender Gaps through Facebook’s Advertising Data (Nazanin Sabri, Ridhi Kashyap and Ingmar Weber)
- Demonstration of Weblinks: A Rich Linking Layer Over the Web (Daniel Roßner and Claus Atzenbeck)
Doctoral Consortium Paper
- Exploring the links between Personality Traits and Susceptibility to Disinformation (Dipto Barman and Owen Conlan)
Blue Sky Talks & Discussion Papers
- Back to the Future: Bringing Original Hypermedia and Cross-Media Concepts to Modern Desktop Environments (Beat Signer, Reinout Roels, Robert van Barlingen and Brent Willems)
- International Teaching and Research in Hypertext (Claus Atzenbeck and Jaesook Cheong)
15:00 – 16:00 Session 7: Digital Humanities (Chair: Marieke van Erp)
Genre-bending on an Academic Platform: Three Creative Works on Scalar (Hannah Ackermans) – SHORT PAPER- Reductio ad absurdum?: from Analogue Hypertext to Digital Humanities (Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller and Paul Pickering) – SHORT PAPER
- Queerness and modification in mainstream and indie games (Kenton Howard) – FULL PAPER
- Death and Transmediations: Manuscripts in the Age of Hypertext (Alessio Antonini, Francesca Benatti, Nicola Watson, Edmund King and Jonathan Gibson) – FULL PAPER
16:00 – 16:30 –BREAK–
16:30 – 17:30 Session 8: Diversity & Equality (Chair: Aaron Brookhouse)
- “A Virus Has No Religion”: Analyzing Islamophobia on Twitter During the COVID-19 Outbreak (Mohit Chandra, Manvith Reddy, Shradha Sehgal, Saurabh Gupta, Arun Buduru and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru) – FULL PAPER
- Improving Diversity in Engineering: A Data-driven Approach to Support Resource Mobilization and Participation in Hashtag Activism Campaigns (Habib Karbasian, Hemant Purohit and Aditya Johri) – FULL PAPER
17:30 – 18:00 SIGWEB Townhall
18:00 – 19:00 Session 9: Search & Interaction (Chair: Denis Helic)
- Towards Understanding Complex Known-Item Requests on Reddit (Florian Meier, Toine Bogers, Maria Gäde and Line Ebdrup Thomsen) – FULL PAPER
- Towards Enhancing Blind Users’ Interaction Experience with Online Videos via Motion Gestures (Hae-Na Lee and Vikas Ashok) – SHORT PAPER
- This Item Might Reinforce Your Opinion: Obfuscation and Labeling of Search Results to Mitigate Confirmation Bias (Alisa Rieger, Tim Draws, Mariet Theune and Nava Tintarev) – FULL PAPER
19:00 – 20:00 Social: Open Zoom rooms for self-guided informal conversations
2nd September 2021 – Day 3
11:00 – 12:00 Session 10: Classification & Detection (Chair: Aiqi Jiang)
- Are Word Embedding Methods Stable and Should We Care About It? (Angana Borah, Manash Pratim Barman and Amit Awekar) – FULL PAPER
- Weakly Supervised Cross-platform Teenager Detection with Adversarial BERT (Peiling Yi and Arkaitz Zubiaga) – SHORT PAPER
- CrisisBERT: A Robust Transformer for Crisis Classification and Contextual Crisis Embedding (Junhua Liu, Trisha Singhal, Lucienne T.M. Blessing, Kristin Wood and Kwan Hui Lim) – FULL PAPER
12:00 – 13:00 Session 11: Languages (Chair: Guangyuan Piao)
- Debiasing Multilingual Word Embeddings: A Case Study of Three Indian Languages (Srijan Bansal, Vishal Garimella, Ayush Suhane and Animesh Mukherjee) – FULL PAPER
- What Is Unclear? Computational Assessment of Task Clarity in Crowdsourcing (Zahra Nouri, Ujwal Gadiraju, Gregor Engels and Henning Wachsmuth) – FULL PAPER
- Federated Multi-task Learning for Complaint Identification from Social Media Data (Apoorva Singh, Tanmay Sen, Sriparna Saha and Mohammed Hasanuzzaman) – FULL PAPER
13:00 – 14:30 Closing Session / Best Paper Awards
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