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Aligning AI systems with human values and the value-based preferences of various stakeholders (their value systems) is key in ethical AI. In value-aware AI systems, decision-making draws upon explicit computational representations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Andrés Holgado-Sánchez , Holger Billhardt , Sascha Ossowski , Sara Degli-Esposti

Moral reasoning reflects how people acquire and apply moral rules in particular situations. With increasingly social interactions happening online, social media data provides an unprecedented opportunity to assess in-the-wild moral…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Ruijie Xi , Munindar P. Singh

We present a data-driven approach using word embeddings to discover and categorise language biases on the discussion platform Reddit. As spaces for isolated user communities, platforms such as Reddit are increasingly connected to issues of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Xavier Ferrer , Tom van Nuenen , Jose M. Such , Natalia Criado

Community rules play a key part in enabling or constraining the behaviors of members in online communities. However, little is unknown regarding whether and to what degree changing rules actually affects community dynamics. In this paper,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Anna Fang , Wenjie Yang , Haiyi Zhu

Basic values are concepts or beliefs which pertain to desirable end-states and transcend specific situations. Studying personal values in social media can illuminate how and why societal values evolve especially when the stimuli-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Maria Milkova , Maksim Rudnev , Lidia Okolskaya

Recent research shows that humans are heavily influenced by online social interactions: We are more likely to perform actions which, in the past, have led to positive social feedback. We introduce a quantitative model of behavior changes in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Sanmay Das , Allen Lavoie

Online volunteers are an uncompensated yet valuable labor force for many social platforms. For example, volunteer content moderators perform a vast amount of labor to maintain online communities. However, as social platforms like Reddit…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Hanlin Li , Brent Hecht , Stevie Chancellor

Large language models implicitly encode preferences over human values, yet steering them often requires large training data. In this work, we investigate a simple approach: Can we reliably modify a model's value system in downstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Shangrui Nie , Florian Mai , David Kaczér , Charles Welch , Zhixue Zhao , Lucie Flek

In this paper we introduce Reddit legends, a collection of venerated old posts that have become famous on Reddit. To establish the utility of Reddit legends for both computational science/HCI and folkloristics, we investigate two main…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Caitrin Armstrong , Derek Ruths

Social media platforms are thriving nowadays, so a huge volume of data is produced. As it includes brief and clear statements, millions of people post their thoughts on microblogging sites every day. This paper represents and analyze the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Suchandra Dutta , Dhrubasish Sarkar , Sohom Roy , Dipak K. Kole , Premananda Jana

Reddit administrators have generally struggled to prevent or contain such discourse for several reasons including: (1) the inability for a handful of human administrators to track and react to millions of posts and comments per day and (2)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Hussam Habib , Maaz Bin Musa , Fareed Zaffar , Rishab Nithyanand

Human feedback is essential for building human-centered AI systems across domains where disagreement is prevalent, such as AI safety, content moderation, or sentiment analysis. Many disagreements, particularly in politically charged…

At a time when information seekers first turn to digital sources for news and opinion, it is critical that we understand the role that social media plays in human behavior. This is especially true when information consumers also act as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Maria Glenski , Thomas J. Johnston , Tim Weninger

We present a method for mapping Reddit communities that accounts for temporal shifts, using quantitative and qualitative analyses of clustering techniques to produce high-quality, stable, and meaningful maps for researchers, journalists and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Virginia Partridge , Jasmine Mangat , Rebecca Curran , Ryan McGrady , Ethan Zuckerman

Millions of people use online social networks to reinforce their sense of belonging, for example by giving and asking for feedback as a form of social validation and self-recognition. It is common to observe disagreement among people…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Diletta Goglia , Davide Vega

As an increasingly large number of people turn to platforms like Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc. for financial advice, generating insights about the content generated and interactions taking place within these platforms have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Sachin Thukral , Suyash Sangwan , Vipul Chauhan , Arnab Chatterjee , Lipika Dey

The aim of this paper is to present methods to systematically analyze individual and group behavioral patterns observed in community driven discussion platforms like Reddit where users exchange information and views on various topics of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Sachin Thukral , Hardik Meisheri , Tushar Kataria , Aman Agarwal , Ishan Verma , Arnab Chatterjee , Lipika Dey

People nowadays express their opinions in online spaces, using different forms of interactions such as posting, sharing and discussing with one another. How do these digital traces change in response to events happening in the real world?…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-13 Antonio Desiderio , Anna Mancini , Giulio Cimini , Riccardo Di Clemente

The subtle human values we acquire through life experiences govern our thoughts and gets reflected in our speech. It plays an integral part in capturing the essence of our individuality and making it imperative to identify such values in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Sougata Saha , Rohini Srihari

Sentiment analysis, an increasingly vital field in both academia and industry, plays a pivotal role in machine learning applications, particularly on social media platforms like Reddit. However, the efficacy of sentiment analysis models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Xiaoxia Zhang , Xiuyuan Qi , Zixin Teng