Community-Driven Models for Research on Social Platforms

Sanjay Kairam , Michael S. Bernstein, Amy S. Bruckman, Stevie Chancellor, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Munmun De Choudhury, Casey Fiesler, Hanlin Li, Nicholas Proferes, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, C. Estelle Smith, Galen Weld

CSCW'24 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing


Making Online Communities ‘Better’: A Taxonomy of Community Values on Reddit

Galen Weld, Amy X. Zhang, Tim Althoff

ICWSM ‘24: Proceedings of the Eigtheenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media


What Makes Online Communities ‘Better’? Measuring Values, Consensus, and Conflict across Thousands of Subreddits

Galen Weld, Amy X. Zhang, Tim Althoff

ICWSM ‘22: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media


Adjusting for Confounders with Text: Challenges and an Empirical Evaluation Framework for Causal Inference

Galen Weld, Peter West, Maria Glenski, David Arbour, Ryan Rossi, Tim Althoff

ICWSM ‘22: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media


Political Bias and Factualness in News Sharing across more than 100,000 Online Communities

Galen Weld, Maria Glenski, Tim Althoff

🏆 Outstanding Analysis Paper at ICWSM ‘21: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media


Leveraging Community and Author Context to Explain the Performance of Deception Detection Models

Galen Weld, Ellyn Ayton, Tim Althoff, Maria Glenski

🏆 Best Paper at NLP4IF ‘21: Fourth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom


Deep Learning for Automatically Detecting Sidewalk Accessibility Problems Using Streetscape Imagery

Galen Weld, Esther Jang, Anthony Li, Aileen Zeng, Kurtis Heimerl, Jon Froehlich

🏆 Best Student Paper at ASSETS ‘19: Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility


eKichabi: Information Access through Basic Mobile Phones in Rural Tanzania

Galen Weld, Trevor Perrier, Jenny Aker, Joshua Blumenstock, Brian Dillon, Adalbertus Kamanzi, Editha Kokushubira, Jennifer Webster, Richard Anderson

CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems


Let's Talk Money: Evaluating the Security Challenges of Mobile Money in the Developing World

Sam Castle, Fahad Pervaiz, Galen Weld, Franziska Roesner, Richard Anderson

ACM DEV '16: Proceedings of the 7th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development


demos and posters

Visualizing USSD and IVR Usage Data with Icicle Charts

Matt Ziegler, Galen Weld, Ewin Tang, Maureen Daum

COMPASS ‘22 Demos


Experimental Crowd+AI Approaches to Track Accessibility Features in Sidewalk Intersections over Time

Ather Sharif, Paari Gopal, Michael Saugstad, Shiven Bhatt, Raymond Fok, Galen Weld, Kavi Dey, Jon Froehlich

ASSETS ‘21 Poster/Demo Track


preprints & working papers

Perceptions of Moderators as a Large-Scale Measure of Online Community Governance

Galen Weld, Leon Leibmann, Amy X. Zhang, Tim Althoff

2024 preprint