As the number of applications installed on smartphones continues to grow, the task of effectively managing location privacy has become increasingly complex. In this paper, we explore the factors that influence users' privacy-preserving intentions and ...

War brings about strong feelings of hate, and showcases the love of humanity. During war, social media is utilized for citizen journalism, supply organization and activism, but also for people to express their emotions. In this paper, we present a multi-...

Recent work has demonstrated how content moderation practices on social media may unfairly affect marginalized individuals, for example by censoring women's bodies and misidentifying reclaimed terms as hate speech. This study documents and explores the ...

The well documented mental health crisis among preteens and teenagers worldwide is often believed to be intertwined with the increasing ubiquity of social media services, a belief borne out by numerous findings in the literature. However, the literature ...

How do Millennial and Gen-Z young adults decide between competing social media when choosing where to post? Previous research argues that decisions can be modeled based on these users' Goals, and the Affordances, Features1, and Social Norms of those ...

Instagram, one of the most popular social media platforms among youth, has recently come under scrutiny for potentially being harmful to the safety and well-being of our younger generations. Automated approaches for risk detection may be one way to help ...

As teenage use of social media platform continues to proliferate, so do concerns about teenage privacy and safety online. Prior work has established that privacy on networked publics, such as social media, is complex, requiring users to navigate not ...

To counteract the increasing number of people showing symptoms of depressive disorders since the outbreak of COVID-19, among others, the WHO suggests using social media more intensively to stay in contact and receive positive messages. However, existing ...

Instagram infographics are a digital activism tool that have redefined action frames for technology-facilitated social movements. From the 1960s through the 1980s, United States ethnic movements practiced collective action: ideologically unified, ...

Significant research has examined social media users' self-presentation strategies, both within a single account and across multiple platforms. Few studies, however, have considered how users' self-presentation varies across multiple accounts on a ...

Virtual Influencers (VIs) are computer-generated characters, many of which are often visually indistinguishable from humans and interact with the world in the first-person perspective as social media influencers. They are gaining popularity by creating ...

In many online social networks (OSNs), a limited portion of profiles emerges and reaches a large base of followers, i.e., the so-called social influencers. One of their main goals is to increase their fanbase to increase their visibility, engaging users ...

Social media such as Instagram and Twitter have become important platforms for marketing and selling illicit drugs. Detection of online illicit drug trafficking has become critical to combat the online trade of illicit drugs. However, the legal status ...

The spreading of geo-location technologies embedded in digital devices and their use on social media platforms has made many location-related data available, enabling the digital study of social phenomena. Due to the COVID-19 health emergency, the ...

Overtourism has had a negative impact on various things at tourist sites. One of the most serious problems is environmental issues, such as littering, caused by too many visitors to tourist sites. It is important to change people's mindset to be more ...

Since the introduction of social media platforms, researchers have investigated how the use of such media affects adolescents? well-being. Thus far, findings have been inconsistent [1, 2, 3]. The aim of our interdisciplinary project is to provide a more ...

As social network services (SNS) are expanding from friend-based to interest-based, users form a new type of relationships, namely interest-based relationships, with friends and others through social activities (e.g., likes, comments). Although such ...

In the social media domain user-to-user recommendation is an important factor to suggest new content and to strengthen the user social circle. In this paper we investigate how to improve user-to-user recommendation exploiting a user similarity metric ...

Instagram has become a great venue for amateur and professional photographers alike to showcase their work. It has, in other words, democratized photography. Generally, photographers take thousands of photos in a session, from which they pick a few to ...

Play and playfulness permeate our daily lives and are often the target of interaction designers. Yet, designing for play while embracing the idiosyncrasies of users and their contexts is challenging. Here we address recent calls for new situated and ...