Carnegie Mellon University
Center for Informed Democracy & Social - cybersecurity (IDeaS)

CMU's center for the study of disinformation, hate speech and extremism online

IDeaS Center for Informed Democracy & Social-cybersecurity

Conference Papers

    • [Best Paper - Winner] Celia Chen, Alex Leitch, Scotty Beland, Ingo Burghardt, William Conway, Rajesh Kumar Gnanasekaran, Marilyn Harbert, Emily Klein, Jennifer Golbeck, "Red Flags and Cherry Picking: Reading the Scientific Blackpill Wiki." [paper]
    • [Best Paper - Runner-up] Shahan Ahmed, "Reddit Community Interventions and Cross-Platform Response: Migration and Policy-Response Discourse on Voat." [paper]
    • Lynnette Ng, Kathleen Carley, "Large-Language Agent-based Network Dynamic (LAND) model for Social Simulation." [paper]
    • Hong Chen, "Marked Event-Time 5-Grams for Bot Detection." [paper]
    • Annabelle Chua, Forster Khoo, Joel Tan, Huey Ting Ang, Kheng Hwee Tan, Joel Sim, Shirley Ow, Ria Mundhra, Elsie Toh, Youfeng Xu, Lynnette Ng, "Look What You Made Us Cluster: Hate Narrative Extraction from Reddit Discourse." [paper]
    • Samantha C. Phillips, Kathleen M. Carley, "Context Collapse and Identity Complexity in Online Self-Presentation: A Cross-Platform Comparison." [paper]
    • Bianca N.Y. Kang, Kathleen M. Carley, "Fannish Forms of Engagement and Exclusionary Out-Group Naming on Marxist-Leninist Tumblr." [paper]

  • Alex Engler, Prithvi Iyer, "LLMs are the Third Wave of Automated Content Moderation." [paper]
  • Ranada Robinson, Alexander Lloyd, Nia Momon, Brandon Mitchell, "We the People: Fighting Online Disinformation through Real-Life Conversations (Key Observations)." [paper]
  • Zachary Devereaux, Anthony Gagnon, Rachel Ladouceur, "Governing with LLM?”: The tension between Fortune and Luck in Machiavelli as viewed by Foundational Models; political-philosophy lessons for Agentic Military AI." [paper]
  • Samarjeet Malik, Mansi Ganga Nayak, Mugdha Raje Ashiya, Vaibhav Sharma, "Democratic Accountability for Autonomous Systems: A Legislative Notification Framework and Comparative Institutional Design." [paper]
  • Mansi Ganga Nayak, Samarjeet Malik, Vaibhav Sharma, Hritika Adhikary, "Autonomous Cyber Weapons as AI-Enabled Digital Harms: A Platform Accountability Framework." [paper]
  • Arthur Sidney, "When Intermediaries Become Participants: Classification, Institutional Authority, and AI Governance." [paper]
  • Luke Osterritter, Kathleen Carley, "Exploring the use of local Large Language Models to Generate Guidance and Stylized Facts for Agent-Based Models." [paper]
  • David Mortimore, Mayur Patil; Jenna Hillhouse, "Beyond Tokenmaxxing." [paper]
  • David Mortimore, Jenna Hillhouse, Kathryn Aten, Dan Boger, "Exaptation and Organizational Adaptation." [paper]
  • David Mortimore, "The Workflow is Not Enough." [paper]
  • Joseph C. Bernert, "The Missing Environment: Online Harms in Adolescent Psychology Assessment." [abstract]