Walid Magdy

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``God says we are right!'': The Interplay between Religion and Propaganda on Arabic Social Media

Religion is a main aspect of life in many parts of the world; hence, it acts as a powerful tool for influencing people's views and actions. In the context of propaganda and misinformation, religion has been perceived as a factor that impacts people negatively leading them to be influenced by false or biased informatio…

CHI '265th+ AuthorContent Moderation & Platform Governance +2

Silencing \& Surging: A Layered Ecology of Algorithmic Repression and Resistance in the Gaza Escalations

During the 2023–ongoing Gaza war, Palestinian advocacy on social media has faced rapid removals, downranking, and account sanctions. In this contribution, we offer a layered analysis of how people endure and counter this repression across affective, mechanistic, and material dimensions. Using patchwork ethnography ove…

CSCW '252nd AuthorDiverse Uses of Social Media Platforms

"The Prophet said so!": On Exploring Hadith Presence on Arabic Social Media

Hadith, the recorded words and actions of the prophet Muhammad, is a key source of the instructions and foundations of Islam, alongside the Quran. Interpreting individual hadiths and verifying their authenticity can be difficult, even controversial, and the subject has attracted the attention of many scholars who have…

CHI '251st AuthorContent Moderation & Platform Governance +2

Who should set the Standards? Analysing Censored Arabic Content on Facebook during the Palestine-Israel Conflict

Nascent research on human-computer interaction concerns itself with fairness of content moderation systems. Designing globally applicable content moderation systems requires considering historical, cultural, and socio-technical factors. Inspired by this line of work, we investigate Arab users' perception of Facebook's…

CSCW '23CorrespondingPrivacy

Twitter has a Binary Privacy Setting, are Users Aware of How It Works?

Twitter accounts are public by default, but Twitter gives the option to create protected accounts, where only approved followers can see their tweets. The publicly visible information changes based on the account type and the visibility of tweets also depends solely on the poster's account type which can cause uninten…

CHI '22CorrespondingPrivacy by Design & User Control +1

Understanding Privacy Switching Behaviour on Twitter

Changing a Twitter account’s privacy setting between public and protected changes the visibility of past tweets. By inspecting the privacy setting of more than 100K Twitter users over 3 months, we noticed that over 40% of those users changed their privacy setting at least once with around 16% changing it over 5 times.…

CSCW '212nd AuthorEquity, Inclusion, and Narratives

Black or White but never neutral: How readers perceive identity from yellow or skin-toned emoji

Research in sociology and linguistics shows that people use language not only to express their own identity but to understand the identity of others. Recent work established a connection between expression of identity and emoji usage on social media, through use of emoji skin tone modifiers. Motivated by that finding,…

CSCW '212nd AuthorCivic Engagement, Politics, and Polarization

Atheists versus Theists: Religious Polarisation in Arab Online Communities

In this study, we investigate the extent of polarisation among theist versus atheist groups on Arab Twitter and their networks. We find four main self-identified groups of Arab users that can be distinguished by different attitudes to religion. In addition to Atheists and Theists, there are Rationalists, who promote r…

CSCW '202nd AuthorOnline Community Reflections

Holy Tweets: Exploring the Sharing of the Quran on Twitter

While social media offer users a platform for self-expression, identity exploration, and community management, among other functions, they also offer space for religious practice and expression. In this paper, we explore social media spaces as they subtend new forms of religious experiences and rituals. We present a m…

CSCW '20CorrespondingCoordination and Collaboration

The Effect of Sociocultural Variables on Sarcasm Communication Online

Online social networks (OSN) play an essential role for connecting people and allowing them to communicate online. OSN users share their thoughts, moments, and news with their network. The messages they share online can include sarcastic posts, where the intended meaning expressed by the written text is different from…

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