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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…

Mahmoud Fawzi et al.University of Edinburgh

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…

Houda Elmimouni et al.University of Manitoba

"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…

Mahmoud Fawzi et al.University of Edinburgh

Diverse Uses of Social Media Platforms

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…

Walid Magdy et al.University of Edinburgh

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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…

Dilara Kekulluoglu et al.University of Edinburgh

Privacy

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.…

Dilara Kekulluoglu et al.University of Edinburgh

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,…

Alexander Roberston et al.University of Edinburgh

Equity, Inclusion, and Narratives

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…

Youssef Al Hariri et al.University of Edinburgh

Civic Engagement, Politics, and Polarization

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…

Norah Abokhodair et al.Microsoft

Online Community Reflections

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…

Silviu Vlad Oprea et al.University of Edinburgh

Coordination and Collaboration

Your Stance is Exposed! Analysing Possible Factors for Stance Detection on Social Media

To what extent user's stance towards a given topic could be inferred? Most of the studies on stance detection have focused on analysing user's posts on a given topic to predict the stance. However, the stance in social media can be inferred from a mixture of signals that might reflect user's beliefs including posts a…

Abeer Aldayel et al.University of Edinburgh

Politics and Misinformation

Paper Title	Authors	Research Topics
``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…	MF Mahmoud Fawzi et al.University of Edinburgh
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…	HE Houda Elmimouni et al.University of Manitoba
"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…	MF Mahmoud Fawzi et al.University of Edinburgh	Diverse Uses of Social Media Platforms
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…	WM Walid Magdy et al.University of Edinburgh
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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…	DK Dilara Kekulluoglu et al.University of Edinburgh	Privacy
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.…	DK Dilara Kekulluoglu et al.University of Edinburgh
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,…	AR Alexander Roberston et al.University of Edinburgh	Equity, Inclusion, and Narratives
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…	YH Youssef Al Hariri et al.University of Edinburgh	Civic Engagement, Politics, and Polarization
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…	NA Norah Abokhodair et al.Microsoft	Online Community Reflections
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…	SO Silviu Vlad Oprea et al.University of Edinburgh	Coordination and Collaboration
Your Stance is Exposed! Analysing Possible Factors for Stance Detection on Social Media To what extent user's stance towards a given topic could be inferred? Most of the studies on stance detection have focused on analysing user's posts on a given topic to predict the stance. However, the stance in social media can be inferred from a mixture of signals that might reflect user's beliefs including posts a…	AA Abeer Aldayel et al.University of Edinburgh	Politics and Misinformation