Joyojeet Pal

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Networks and Influencers in Online Propaganda Events: A Comparative Study of Three Cases in India

The structure and mechanics of organized outreach around certain issues, such as in propaganda networks, is constantly evolving on social media. We collect tweets on two propaganda events and one non-propaganda event with varying degrees of organized messaging. We then perform a comparative analysis of the user and ne…

CHI '23CorrespondingCommunity Collaboration & Wikipedia +1

Understanding Journalists' Workflows in News Curation

With the increasing dominance of internet as a source of news consumption, there has been a rise in the production and popularity of email newsletters compiled by individual journalists. However, there is little research on the processes of aggregation, and how these differ between expert journalists and trained machi…

CHI '222nd AuthorMisinformation & Fact-Checking +2

Accost, Accede, or Amplify: Attitudes towards COVID-19 Misinformation on WhatsApp in India

Social media has witnessed an unprecedented growth in users based in low-income communities in the Global South. However, much remains unknown about the drivers of misinformation in such communities. To fill this gap, we conducted an interview-based study to examine how rural and urban communities in India engage with…

CHI '19CorrespondingMisinformation & Fact-Checking +1

Rumors and Collective Sensemaking: Managing Ambiguity in an Informal Marketplace

Rumors are an enduring form of communication across socio-cultural landscapes globally. Counter to their typical negative association, rumors play a nuanced role, helping people collectively deal with problems through constructing a representation of an uncertain situation. Drawing on unstructured interviews and parti…

CSCW '183rd AuthorSharing Economy

We can go anywhere': Understanding independence through a case study of ride-hailing use by people with visual impairments in metropolitan India

Ride-hailing services have received attention as part of the growing work around the sharing economy, but the focus of these studies has largely been on drivers. In this paper, we examine how ride-hailing is transforming the transportation practices of one group of passengers - people with visual impairments in metrop…

CSCW '183rd AuthorOvercoming Barriers

Making a Living My Way: Necessity-driven Entrepreneurship in Resource-Constrained Communities

Entrepreneurship has long been used to create self-employment opportunities to guard against career uncertainty. Yet, little is known about how social technologies impact the day-to-day work of entrepreneurs in resource-constrained contexts. We performed a qualitative study involving interviews with 26 micro-entrepren…

CHI '181st AuthorAutoML Interfaces +2

Digital Payment and its Discontents: Street shops and the Indian Government’s Push for Cashless Transactions

In November 2016, the Government of India banned the vast majority of the nation’s banknotes in a move referred to as ‘demonetization’, with the stated goals of fighting corruption, terrorism, and eventually expanding digital transactions. In this study of 200 shop-keepers in Mumbai and Bengaluru we found that cash sh…

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