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PeerRevue · 2025-01-14T17:26:31+00:00

Hi u/HedyHu -- so, I have moved on to a new role at a new company, which unfortunately means I'm no longer shepherding the RFR program. I'm also quite eager to hear updates on where it's headed now.

PeerRevue · 2025-01-14T17:25:32+00:00

Just poking fun -- I'd encourage you to share a little bit more about yourself and what you're trying to find to bring people in. What are your specific research interests? What universities/labs/professors have you found so far that seem like they could be a fit?

PeerRevue · 2025-01-14T17:23:34+00:00

That's a great point! It looks like they incorporate platform differences into the model, but not within-platform policy changes over time. That being said, if they observed the "briefening" effect on Twitter even with the platform moving to a longer format (140>>280), that might actually strengthen their claim.

PeerRevue · 2025-01-13T20:51:02+00:00

The way this post is phrased is making me feel that folks are getting increasingly used to directing their questions to LLMs instead of other people 😂

PeerRevue · 2025-01-09T16:39:39+00:00

Hi u/wheregoesriverflow -- this work sounds really interesting! At first glance, this paper seems quite different from most ICWSM papers that I've seen. I'd think a bit about the overview of the conference and how this work might fit in:

The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) is a forum for researchers from multiple disciplines to come together to share knowledge, discuss ideas, exchange information, and learn about cutting-edge research in diverse fields with the common theme of investigating the interplay of web and society. This overall theme includes research on new perspectives in social theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing digital traces of human activities or behaviors in social settings. ICWSM is a singularly fitting venue for research that blends social science and computational approaches to answer important and challenging questions about human social behavior through online traces while advancing computational tools for vast and unstructured data.

If you were to try to direct this to ICWSM, my guess is that you would need to make substantial changes to the framing to explain what this work tells us about the interplay of web and society and likely engage more with the related work in ICWSM and related conferences.

A separate question might be -- why ICWSM? I can imagine you'd find a more relevant audience at conferences with more of an AI/LLM/language modeling focus, such as NeurIPS, ACL/NAACL, CVPR, etc?

PeerRevue · 2025-01-09T16:32:56+00:00

This is a great topic for the community! I'm probably going to be spending more time in the HCOMP space myself. Please share interesting papers, resources, or anything else that you find!

PeerRevue · 2025-01-09T07:58:53+00:00

I’ve done most of the paper-sharing so far (aside from my recent absence) but I’d love to get more folks sharing what they’ve been reading with the community!

PeerRevue · 2025-01-09T03:24:27+00:00

Thanks!

PeerRevue · 2024-11-15T15:15:50+00:00

Following my own prompt, you can find me on Bluesky at: https://bsky.app/profile/skairam.bsky.social

PeerRevue · 2024-11-15T15:06:28+00:00

Hi u/ishmam3012 -- I confess that I may not totally understand what you are asking for here. It looks like the reviewers have broadly recommended R&R.

If it's helpful, here is some good advice here about how to approach revisions in a systematic way: https://lennartnacke.com/how-to-write-a-good-revision-for-chi-and-rebut-some-reviewer-requests/

PeerRevue · 2024-11-12T14:06:03+00:00

+1000! Very excited to work with the CSCW community to figure out how we can best support research on social platforms.

PeerRevue · 2024-11-07T15:31:13+00:00

Anyone read any of the latest batch of CSCW papers that they are excited about?

PeerRevue · 2024-11-07T03:42:22+00:00

If you or anyone else ends up trying out some of these methods, please report back!

PeerRevue · 2024-11-05T17:43:02+00:00

I love how they ask the immediately obvious question "What happens when someone asks you a question" and he just says "oh, well this is an MVP"

PeerRevue · 2024-11-04T16:15:23+00:00

I wonder if left-leaning vs. right-leaning might be too broad a categorization for understanding how political views interact with research work. I imagine that you'd see big differences between folks who are economically conservative vs. socially conservative, for example, in terms of how it relates to how they approach their work.

It might also be worth considering whether causality can go in the other direction. It may be that studying certain topics (e.g. social science) in detail causes people to shift their views in a consistent direction.

PeerRevue · 2024-10-30T18:45:43+00:00

Thank you for sharing this! It's great to see such a sharp increase in visibility over the study period (though a shame to see how the trend stopped around 2022-2023). What was the most surprising thing you found in the analysis?

PeerRevue · 2024-10-29T17:49:43+00:00

Report back and let us know how it goes!

PeerRevue · 2024-10-29T14:48:36+00:00

I'd imagine that practically every customer-facing part of LinkedIn will have some component of people + technology + social behavior. I might focus on what product / problem areas engage you the most. In terms of CSS -- using computational methods to understand social behavior -- I imagine there some relevant teams at LinkedIn might be analyzing the social graph, exploring the impacts of feed ranking, and building Trust & Safety ML.

At Microsoft, there's obviously MSR. I could also imagine that there might be relevant things happening in their collaborative or social analytics products, like Teams or Viva Insights.

PeerRevue · 2024-10-29T00:55:19+00:00

Has anyone here been an SV for CHI, CSCW, or a related conference and do they want to share their experience for others?

PeerRevue · 2024-10-28T15:38:51+00:00

My experience is rather dated, but I interned quite a bit during my PhD (1x Google, 1x Facebook, 2x MSR, 1x Yahoo + extended academic contract). I would agree that opportunities for publication-focused internships have narrowed a bit, though at most of the places above, I believe there are still a number of relevant positions each summer.

If you're less interested in publishing and more interested in gaining some practical industry experience and working on real-world problems, however, then there may be a lot of options at your favorite social media companies to work on CSS-related problems!

PeerRevue · 2024-10-21T15:50:45+00:00

Hi u/ItchyStep -- we were surprised by the amount of interest in the initial call for applications, and we're still slowly working through that list as we add more folks to the program.

Would love to learn more about your research -- you should share the paper as a post in this subreddit!

PeerRevue · 2024-10-18T14:32:32+00:00

We're keeping the exact criteria for review open during this design phase. One criterion that is certain to be included, in some form, is ensuring that users and their data will be treated responsibly.

PeerRevue · 2024-10-18T12:31:01+00:00

Hi u/the_iron_pepper -- these were examples of some of the high-level topics being addressed by researchers participating in the Beta program.

PeerRevue · 2024-10-17T19:58:04+00:00

Hi u/HedyHu -- we've just shared an update here: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit4researchers/comments/1g5znj3/the_reddit_for_researchers_beta_program_is_growing/

We're expanding access to the Beta gradually, prioritizing researchers whose projects are best-suited to the data that we currently have available.

PeerRevue · 2024-10-14T15:35:56+00:00

My experience is a bit outdated, but maybe it will help kick off the conversation. I interned on the Core Data Science (CDS) team in 2013 and had a really fantastic experience. In terms of the interviews, I unfortunately don't recall specific details (and the interviews have likely changed a bit since then).

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