ANTI-SOCIAL COMPUTING:
Explaining, predicting and preventing anti-social behavior (trolling, personal attacks, etc.)
KEY PUBLICATIONS
Thread With Caution: Proactively Helping Users Assess and Deescalate Tension in Their Online Discussions
Jonathan P. Chang, Charlotte Schluger and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Proceedings of CSCW 2022.
Charlotte Schluger, Jonathan P. Chang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and Karen Levy
Proceedings of CSCW 2022.
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood: Comparing Intentions and Perceptions in Online Discussions
Jonathan P. Chang, Justin Cheng, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil.
Proceedings of WWW 2020.
Trouble on the Horizon: Forecasting the Derailment of Online Conversations as they Develop
Jonathan P. Chang and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil.
Proceedings of EMNLP 2019.
Trouble on the Horizon: Forecasting the Derailment of Online Conversations as they Develop
Jonathan P. Chang and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil.
Proceedings of EMNLP 2019.
Kumar Srinivasan, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee, Chenhao Tan
Proceedings of CSCW 2019.
Trajectories of Blocked Community Members: Redemption, Recidivism and Departure
Jonathan P. Chang and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil.
Proceedings of WWW 2019.
Conversations Gone Awry: Detecting Early Signs of Conversational Failure
Justine Zhang, Jonathan P. Chang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil,
Lucas Dixon, Yiqing Hua, Nithum Thain, Dario Taraborelli
Proceedings of ACL 2018.
Characterizing Online Public Discussions Through Patterns of Participant Interactions
Justine Zhang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Christina Sauper, Sean J. Taylor
Proceedings of CSCW 2018.
Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions
Justin Cheng, Michael Bernstein, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jure Leskovec
Proceedings of CSCW, 2017.
Best Paper Award.
Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities
Justin Cheng, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jure Leskovec
Proceedings of ICWSM, 2015.
Honorable Mention
How Community Feedback Shapes User Behavior
Justin Cheng, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jure Leskovec
Proceedings of ICWSM, 2014.
Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal: A Case Study on an Online Strategy Game
Vlad Niculae, Srijan Kumar, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
Proceedings of ACL, 2015.
A computational approach to politeness with application to social factors
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Moritz
Sudhof, Dan Jurafsky, Jure Leskovec, Christopher Potts
Proceedings of ACL, 2013.
Nominated for the Best Paper Award
RELEVANT CODE
ConvoKit: toolkit for analyzing conversations (gone awry)
Code for extracting simple linguistic features from conversations
RELEVANT DATA
Dataset of conversations gone awry
Interactions
in online Diplomacy games
MEDIA COVERAGE
The New York Times covered two of our studies on online (anti)social behavior
PBS produced an animated educational video showcasing our work on antisocial behavior
Interviewed by BBC on Behaving Better Online (write-up version here)
Our work on causes of trolling was covered by The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The Times
Our work on antisocial behavior was featured on BBC
Our work on antisocial behavior was covered by The Daily Dot, The Guardian, Wired and others
Our work on betrayal was featured in the The Wall Street Journal
Our work on betrayal was covered by Science News, CNN, New York Magazine and others
Data Mining Reveals How The “Down-Vote” Leads To A Vicious Circle Of Negative Feedback