Research and Publications
Image credits: Swati Vats for the SMOL project. The Social Media, Online behavior and Language project focuses on online human behavior and computer mediated communication. SMOL is also internet lingo for something that's small and cute. Founding member and PI: Dr. Kokil Jaidka, Assistant Professor, NUS Research Areas: The role of affordances in computer-mediated communication:... Continue Reading →
What is it about? Social media sites encourage certain kinds of behavior by design. Through the use of observational data and experiments, this project examines how affordances can introduce different social norms that improve the health of online discussions. This project is a collaboration with Dr. Yphtach Lelkes at the Annenberg School for Communication, University... Continue Reading →
What is it about? To explore the relationship of language features with different phenomena related to human communication, interaction, and discussion. Why is it important? The digital traces left by internet users on websites such as social media platforms can yield important behavioral insights that can serve to test existing theories of social psychology, and... Continue Reading →
A study of the history of the universe tells us that if the universe's existence was shrunk into the size of an Earth-sized day, then humans are relatively only four seconds old. In the first zeptoseconds of these four seconds, one of our first inventions was a system to measure days, seasons, years, and our... Continue Reading →
This paper has had quite an adventure, and it finally has a home. The WikiTalkEdit dataset/paper tests whether the predictors of emotion change in a two-party conversation, are also predictors of behavioral change. The paper tests different language models and provide linguistic insights about the predictors of each kind of change. Inspired by a conversation... Continue Reading →
I wrote this as a thinkpiece for a student's assignment. I plan on building on these ideas for a longer rant. Until then feel free to consume and engage. Thanks Olivia Sim for the nudge! Are there any possible reasons why Clubhouse is popular? Increasing awareness about privacy breaches, the commodification of user data, and... Continue Reading →
Comments written for the Channel News Asia, with inputs based on primary research from Dr. Saifuddin Ahmed Parts of the riot were planned online on Facebook etc - why wasn't anything done? This time the call for rioting came from the man himself, from a video posted to social media, so it's not necessary to... Continue Reading →
(by Sean Fischer, Kokil Jaidka, and Yphtach Lelkes) Portland, OR became the object of national attention in July as the standoff between federal agents and protesters reached its climax. National attention to the conflict in Portland was awakened by the New York Times on July 17. Search interest for the topic peaked on July 20th.... Continue Reading →
Post coming soon. Inspired by Dr. Amy J Ko and her work: https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/studying-programming-language-learning-a-3-year-recap-bda469e5be04
We made a cool poster so of course, that deserves a new blogpost 🙂 Collaborative creativity. If I wasn't organizing the workshop, I'd love to explore the CL-Aff Diplomacy dataset and try out some ideas. But you don't have to worry about organizing it. So why don't you sign up! Full CFP is somewhere here:... Continue Reading →
written for Channel News Asia in October 2020 , with inputs and primary research results provided by Dr. Saifuddin Ahmed How would you describe President Trump's use of social media, has it done more harm than good? Social media is the core communication tool for Trump and the Trump White House. In fact, even since... Continue Reading →
