Workshop Keynote:

Cecile Paris, CSIRO, Australia

“Mapping Emotions on Social Media”

Bio: Dr Cécile Paris is a Chief Research Scientist Data61, CSIRO, the Australian National Science Agency. Her expertise is in Natural Language Processing, User Modelling, Social Media Analytics, and, more generally, in artificial intelligence and communication. Cécile has a Bachelor Degree from the University of Berkeley (California) and a PhD from Columbia University (New York). Prior to joining CSIRO, Cécile worked at ISI (Information Sciences Institute) and the University of Brighton (UK). She is a Fellow of the Academy for Technology, Science and Engineering (ATSE) and of the Royal Society of NSW, and an Honorary Professor at Macquarie University. She also holds Adjunct Professorships at the University of Sydney and RMIT. Cécile has over to 30 years of experience in research and research management. At CSIRO, she leads a multidisciplinary research group interested in the human side of digital technology, with applications in a wide variety of domains.

Abstract: People share a lot of information about themselves and their experiences on social media. In particular, they often share information about how they feel. In this talk, I will discuss two of our projects in which we seek to understand more about mental health by looking at social media. In one of these projects, we look at Twitter to see if we can gain information, in real-time, at scale, about the emotional state of individuals or communities, to understand how people react to various events. In the other project, we examine data from an online social media platform specifically designed to enable to people to vent their emotions in order to identify emotional trajectories.

Workshop Panel:

Resilience and Vulnerability to Information Influence

Kathleen Carley is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon and the director of the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS). Kathleen M. Carley's research areas are dynamic network analysis, computational social and organization theory, adaptation and evolution, text mining, and the impact of telecommunication technologies and policy on communication, information diffusion, disease contagion and response within and among groups particularly in disaster or crisis situations.

Jeff Hancock is founding director of the Stanford Social Media Lab and is a Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. Professor Hancock is well-known for his research on how people use deception with technology, from sending texts and emails to detecting fake online reviews.

Maria Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University at Buffalo. Her research is at the intersection of applied demography, computational social science, and social policy. The first line of research examines the ethical implications of algorithmic decision-making in human services, child welfare in particular. The second line of research looks at the lived experience of marginalized communities as described on social media.