Research Paper Presentation

For 779V students only!

Instructions. Please sign up to read, present, and lead a discussion on one of the following research papers in class. You should make your selection, and post it before the 2nd class meeting (each paper can only be selected by one person). Further below you'll find a list of available dates where you should list your name and the paper you're going to cover on that date.

You'll have about 20-25 minutes. Because the rest of the class won't have read the paper you'll be responsible for summarizing and presenting the main findings of that paper as well as developing a conversation with the class based on findings and interesting questions that emerge.

Be sure to cover the following points:

• What's the motivation for the paper? Why is it important?
• What question is the paper trying to answer? Explain what the researchers did to study that question, including the methods used.
• What did the paper contribute, what new insights or ideas did it introduce that caught your eye or surprised you?
• What aspects of the paper are worth debating? What questions can you pose to the class to develop a conversation about the paper?

Presentations will be evaluated on (1) quality of the summary including your own insights, critique, or synthesis of the material, (2) clarity of the delivery of the presentation in an engaging way (i.e. not just reading power points slides), (3) making at attempt to interact with and develop a meaningful discussion with the audience.

Papers

• Adar, Eytan, Carolyn Gearig, Ayshwarya Balasubramanian, Jessica Hullman, "PersaLog: Personalization of News Article Content," Proc. CHI. 2017. PDF
• Arkaitz Zubiaga, Maria Liakata, Rob Procter, Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi, Peter Tolmie. Analysing How People Orient to and Spread Rumours in Social Media by Looking at Conversational Threads. PLoS One 11(3). 2016. PDF
• David A. Shamma, Lyndon Kennedy, Jia Li, Bart Thomee, Haojian Jin, and Jeff Yuan. 2016. Finding Weather Photos: Community-Supervised Methods for Editorial Curation of Online Sources. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 86-96. Link
• Aniko Hannak, Drew Margolin, Brian Keegan, Ingmar Weber. Get Back! You Don’t Know Me Like That: The Social Mediation of Fact Checking Interventions in Twitter Conversations. Proc. ICWSM. 2014. PDF
• Juhi Kulshrestha, et al. Quantifying Search Bias: Investigating Sources of Bias for Political Searches in Social Media. In Proc. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), Portland, USA, February 2017. PDF
• J. Cheng, C. Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, J. Leskovec. Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities. Proc. ICWSM 2015. PDF
• Lloret, E. & Palomar, M., 2013. Towards automatic tweet generation: A comparative study from the text summarization perspective in the journalism genre. Expert Systems with Applications, 40(16), pp.6624–6630. Link
• Montal, T. & Reich, Z., 2016. I, Robot. You, Journalist. Who is the Author? Digital Journalism, pp.1–21. Link
• Grimmelmann, J., 2016. There’s No Such Thing as a Computer-Authored Work — And It’s a Good Thing, Too. Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, (403). PDF
• Lin Weeks. Media Law and Copyright Implications of Automated Journalism. Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law. 4(1). 2014. PDF
• Linden, C.-G., 2016. Decades of Automation in the Newsroom. Digital Journalism, pp.1–18. Link
• Örnebring, H., 2010. Technology and journalism-as-labour: Historical perspectives. Journalism, 11(1), pp.57–74. Link
• Thurman, N. et al., 2016. Giving Computers a Nose for News. Digital Journalism, 4(7), pp.838–848. Link

Open Dates (sign up here by clicking "edit" in the upper right corner - you need to be signed into Github)

• March 27 Sohan Shah: PersaLog: Personalization of News Article Content
• April 3 Rebecca Gale: "Get Back! You Don’t Know Me Like That: The Social Mediation of Fact Checking Interventions in Twitter Conversations." Proc. ICWSM. 2014
• April 10 Mayuresh Amdekar: Juhi Kulshrestha, et al. Quantifying Search Bias: Investigating Sources of Bias for Political Searches in Social Media. In Proc. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), Portland, USA, February 2017
• April 10 (slot 2) Shashank Kava: Analysing How People Orient to and Spread Rumours in Social Media by Looking at Conversational Threads
• April 17 (slot 1) Xinyun Zhang: Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities
• April 17 (slot 2) Sanchari Chowdhuri :Towards automatic tweet generation: A comparative study from the text summarization perspective in the journalism genre.
• April 17 (slot 3) Helen Lyons: Grimmelmann, J., 2016. There’s No Such Thing as a Computer-Authored Work — And It’s a Good Thing, Too. Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, (403).
• May 1 (slot 1)
• May 1 (slot 2)
• May 1 (slot 3)