Under review

Note: Pre-prints available on request.

  • WhatsApp Explorer: A Data Donation Tool To Facilitate Research on WhatsApp (Kiran Garimella, Simon Chauchard) (paper,code (available on request))
  • Generative AI and Political Discourse: Insights from WhatsApp in Rural India (Kiran Garimella) (paper)
  • Dissecting Hate Speech Campaigns in the 2016 Philippine Elections on Facebook (Sudhamshu Hosamane, Kiran Garimella) (paper)
  • Community-Driven Fact-Checking on WhatsApp: Who Fact-Checks Whom, Why, and With What Effect? (Kiran Garimella) (paper)
  • Deciphering Viral Trends in Everyday WhatsApp Use in Rural India (Kiran Garimella, Bharat Nayak, Aditya Vashistha) (paper)
  • Private Sharing of Public Content on Facebook (Kiran Garimella) (paper)
  • Television Discourse Decoded: Comprehensive Multimodal Analytics at Scale (Anmol Agarwal, Shrey Gupta, Pratyush Priyadarshi, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Kiran Garimella) (paper)
  • Collecting WhatsApp Data for Social Science Research: Challenges and a Proposed Solution (Simon Chauchard, Kiran Garimella), Book chapter (in print), New York University Press (paper)

2024

  • Online Knowledge Production in Polarized Political Memes: The Case of Critical Race Theory (Alyvia Walters, Tawfiq Ammari, Kiran Garimella, Shagun Jhaver) (paper, New Media and Society 2024).
  • Minimizing polarization and disagreement using topic-based timeline algorithms (Tianyi Zhou, Stefan Neuman, Kiran Garimella, Aristides Gionis), (paper, Web Conference 2024)
  • Unraveling the Dynamics of Television Debates and Social Media Engagement: Insights from an Indian News Show (Kiran Garimella, Abhilash Datta) (paper, accepted at ICWSM 2024)

2023

  • Social Media Narratives on Conflict from Northern Syria with Erin Walk, Elizabeth Parker-Magyar, Ahmet Akbiyik and Fotini Christia, Journal of Politics (paper).
  • Understanding and combatting misinformation across 16 countries on six continents, Antonio A. Arechar, et al., Nature Human Behavior (paper).
  • On the Rise of Fear Speech in Online Social Media, Punyajoy Saha, Kiran Garimella, Binny Mathew, Animesh Mukherjee, PNAS (paper,adapted content for students).
  • Displacement and Return in the Internet Era: How Social Media Captures Migration Decisions in Northern Syria with Erin Walk and Fotini Christia, World Development Journal (paper).
  • Talking politics on WhatsApp: A survey of Cuban, Indian, and Mexican American diaspora communities in the United States, Martin J Riedl, João VS Ozawa, Samuel Woolley, Kiran Garimella, Center for Media Engagement White Paper (paper)
  • Effects of Algorithmic Trend Promotion: Evidence from Coordinated Campaigns in Twitter’s Trending Topics, Joseph Schlessinger, Kiran Garimella, Maurice Jakesch, Dean Eckles, ICWSM 2023 (paper).

2022

  • Decentralized yet Unifying: Digital Media and Solidarity in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Movement, Brian Leung, Yuan Hsiao and Kiran Garimella, Journal of Quantitative Description (paper).
  • Using Facebook and LinkedIn Data to Study International Mobility. Data Science for Migration and Mobility, Carolina Coimbra Vieira, Masoomali Fatehkia, Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber, Emilio Zagheni (book chapter), Oxford University Press (chapter).
  • Jettisoning Junk Messaging in the Era of End-to-End Encryption: A Case Study of WhatsApp, with Pushkal Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Damiola Ibosiola, Nishanth Sastry and Gareth Tyson, WWW 2022 (paper)
  • What Circulates on Partisan WhatsApp in India?: Insights from an Unusual Dataset with Simon Chauchard, Journal of Quantitative Description. (paper)
  • Tiplines to Combat Misinformation on Encrypted Platforms: A Case Study of the 2019 Indian Election on WhatsApp with Ashkan Kazemi, Devin Gaffney, Gautam Shahi, and Scott Hale, HKS Misinfo Review Journal. (paper)
  • Providing normative information increases intentions to accept a COVID-19 vaccine with Alex Moehring, Avinash Collis, Amin Rahimian, Dean Eckles, and Sinan Aral, Nature Communications (paper,data,additional material).
  • Global survey on COVID-19 beliefs, behaviors, and norms, with Alex Moehring, Avinash Collis, Amin Rahimian, Stella Babalola, Nina Gobat, Dominick Shattuck, Jeni Stolow, Dean Eckles, Sinan Aral. Nature Human Behavior, (Website,Paper)

    • 2021

    • Trend Alert: Manipulation of Twitter Trends Through Cross-Platform Coordination, with Maurice Jakesch, Mor Naaman and Dean Eckles, CSCW 2021. (paper)
    • Claim Matching Beyond English to Scale Global Fact-Checking, with Ashkan Kazemi, Devin Gaffney, and Scott Hale, ACL 2021. (paper,data)
    • Evolution of Individual Impact on Social Media, with Robert West, ICWSM 2021 (paper,data)
    • "Short is the Road that Leads from Fear to Hate": Fear Speech in Indian WhatsApp Groups with Punyajoy Saha, Binny Mathew, and Animesh Mukherjee, The Web Conference 2021 (paper,data).
    • Political Polarization in Online News Consumption with Robert West, Rebecca Weiss, Tim Smith, ICWSM 2021 (Best paper award, paper).

    2020

    • A First Look at COVID-19 Messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan. The 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (paper)
    • Characterising and Detecting Sponsored Influencer Posts on Instagram. The 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (paper)
    • Human Estimates of Body Measurements: Accuracy, Biases, and Mental Models. EPJ Data Science, Kirill Martynov, Kiran Garimella Robert West. (paper)
    • Darks and Stripes: Effects of Clothing on Weight Perception. IEEE Journal on Social Computing, Kirill Martynov, Kiran Garimella, Robert West. (paper)
    • Tracking global gender gaps in information technology using online data. ITU Digital Skills Insights 2020 Report, Florianne C.J. Verkroost, Ridhi Kashyap, Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber and Emilio Zagheni(paper)
    • Can WhatsApp benefit from debunked fact-checked stories to reduce misinformation?. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review Journal, Julio Reis, Philipe Melo, Kiran Garimella, Fabricio Benevenuto (paper)
    • Images and misinformation in political groups: evidence from WhatsApp in India. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review Journal, Kiran Garimella, Dean Eckles (paper)
    • A Dataset of Fact-Checked Images Shared on WhatsApp During the Brazilian and Indian Elections. ICWSM 2020 (Dataset paper), Julio Reis, Philipe Melo, Kiran Garimella, Jussara Almeida, Dean Eckles, Fabricio Benevenuto (paper,data)
    • Characterising User Content on a Multi-Lingual Social Network. ICWSM 2020, Pushkal Agarwal, Kiran Garimella, Sagar Joglekar, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson (paper,data)
    • Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications, LREC 2020, Steve Wilson, Walid Magdy, Barbara McGillivray, Kiran Garimella, Gareth Tyson (paper)

    2019

    • Can WhatsApp Counter Misinformation by Limiting Message Forwarding?. Complex Networks 2019, Philipe Melo, Carolina Vieira, Kiran Garimella, Pedro de Melo, Fabricio Benevenuto (paper)
    • Hot Streaks on Social Media. ICWSM 2019, Kiran Garimella, Robert West (paper, slides)
    • WhatsApp Monitor: A Fact-Checking System for WhatsApp. (Demo), ICWSM 2019, Philipe Melo, Johnnatan Messias, Gustavo Resende, Kiran Garimella, Kiran Garimella, Jussara Almeida, Fabricio Benevenuto (paper,demo)
    • Tools for WhatsApp data collection (Tutorial), ICWSM 2019, Kiran Garimella, Philipe Melo, Gareth Tyson, Jussara Almeida, Fabricio Benevenuto (slides, website)
    • Segregation and Sentiment: Estimating Refugee Segregation and Its Effects Using Digital Trace Data. Data4Refugees Challenge, Neal Marquez, Kiran Garimella, Ott Toomet, Ingmar Weber, Emilio Zagheni (paper)
    • Disinformation on Facebook -- A case study from Finland (tech report, not peer reviewed), Vili Ketonen, Kiran Garimella, Aristides Gionis (paper)

    2018

    • Polarization on Social Media, PhD Thesis, Kiran Garimella (thesis)
    • Studying Migrant Assimilation Through Facebook Interests (Short paper) SocInfo 2018, Antoine Dubois, Emilio Zagheni, Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber (paper,poster)
    • WhatsApp Doc?: A First Look at WhatsApp Public Group Data (dataset paper) ICWSM 2018, Kiran Garimella, Gareth Tyson. (paper,slides)
    • Professional Gender Gaps Across US Cities (Short paper), ICWSM 2018, Karri Haranko, Emilio Zagheni, Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber (paper,poster)
    • Political Discourse on Social Media: Echo Chambers, Gatekeepers, and the Price of Bipartisanship, WWW 2018, Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, Michael Mathioudakis. (paper,slides)(In the Media)
    • Joint Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Learning Ideological Leaning on Twitter, WSDM 2018, Preeti Lahoti, Kiran Garimella, Aristides Gionis. (paper,slides,website)

    2017

    • Balancing Information Exposure on Social Networks, NIPS 2017, Kiran Garimella, Aristides Gionis, Nikos Parotsidis, Nikolaj Tatti. (paper,poster,website,video)
    • Quantifying Controversy on Social Media, WSDM 2016, Transactions on Social Computing (TSC), Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, Michael Mathioudakis. (paper,slides)(In the Media).
    • Understanding Para Social Breakups on Twitter (Poster), WebScience 2017 (also at ICCSS 2017), Kiran Garimella, Jonathan Cohen, Ingmar Weber. (paper,poster)
    • The Effect of Collective Attention on Controversial Debates on Social Media, WebScience 2017, Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, Michael Mathioudakis. (paper,slides,website) (Best student paper award)
    • Factors in Recommending Contrarian Content on Social Media (Short paper), WebScience 2017, Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, Michael Mathioudakis. (paper,slides)
    • Ad-blocking: A Study on Performance, Privacy and Counter-measures (Short paper), WebScience 2017, Kiran Garimella, Orestis Kostakis, Michael Mathioudakis. (paper,slides,website)
    • Polarization on Social Media (Tutorial), ICWSM 2017, Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, Michael Mathioudakis. (website,slides)
    • The Ebb and Flow of Controversial Debates on Social Media (Short paper), ICWSM 2017, Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, Michael Mathioudakis. (paper,poster,website)
    • A Motif-based Approach for Identifying Controversy (Short paper), ICWSM 2017, Mauro Coletto, Kiran Garimella, Aristides Gionis, Claudio Lucchese. (paper,poster)
    • A Long-Term Analysis of Polarization on Twitter (Short paper), ICWSM 2017 (also at ICCSS 2017), Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber. (paper,poster,website)
    • Media Attention to Science (Poster), WWW 2017, Kiran Garimella, Han Xiao. (paper,poster,website)
    • Understanding International Migration using Tensor Factorization (Poster), WWW 2017, Hieu Nguyen, Kiran Garimella. (paper,poster,website)
    • Exposing Twitter Users to Contrarian News (Demo), WWW 2017, Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, Michael Mathioudakis. (paper,poster,Demo)
    • Balancing Opposing Views to Reduce Controversy, WSDM 2017, Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, Michael Mathioudakis. (Best student paper award) (paper,slides,poster) (In the Media)

      • 2016

    • Discovering the Network Backbone from Traffic Activity Data, PAKDD 2016/Journal of Data Science and Analytics 2016, Kiran Garimella, Sanjay Chawla, Aristides Gionis, Dominic Tsang. (Inivted for the journal track,paper,slides)
    • Quote RTs on Twitter: Usage of the New Feature for Political Discourse (Short paper), ACM WebScience 2016 (also at ICCSS 2016), Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber, Munmun De Choudhury. (paper,slides)
    • Social Media Image Analysis for Public Health (Short paper), CHI 2016, Kiran Garimella, Aboud Alfayad, Ingmar Weber. (paper,poster,data)
    • Exploring Controversy on Twitter (Demo), CSCW 2016, Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, Michael Mathioudakis. (paper,Demo,poster)
    • Quantifying Controversy on Social Media, WSDM 2016, Transactions on Social Computing (TSC), Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, Michael Mathioudakis. (paper,slides)(In the Media).

      • 2015

    • Scalable Facility Location for Massive Graphs on Pregel-like Systems, CIKM 2015, Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, Mauro Sozio. (paper,slides)

      • 2014

    • From ``I love you babe'' to ``leave me alone'' - Romantic Relationship Breakups on Twitter, SocInfo 2014 (also at ICCSS 2015), Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber, Sonya Dal Cin. (paper,slides) (Nominated for Best paper, Best Presentation Award) (In the Media).
    • Co-Following on Twitter (Short paper), ACM Hypertext 2014, Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber. (paper)
    • Gender Asymmetries in Reality and Fiction: The Bechdel Test of Social Media, ICWSM 2014, David Garcia, Ingmar Weber, Kiran Garimella. (paper,slides) (In the Media).
    • Who Watches (and Shares) What on YouTube? And When? Using Twitter to Understand YouTube Viewership, WSDM 2014, Adiya Abisheva, Kiran Garimella, David Garcia, Ingmar Weber. (paper)
    • Giving is Caring: Understanding Online Donation behavior through Email, ACM CSCW 2014. Yelena Mejova, Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber, Michael Dougal. (paper,slides)
    • Inferring International and Internal Migration Patterns from Twitter Data, Web Science workshop at WWW 2014, Emilio Zagheni, Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber, and Bogdan State. (paper) (In the Media)
    • Using Co-Following for Out-of-Context Twitter Friend Recommendation (Demo) , ICWSM 2014, Ingmar Weber, Kiran Garimella. (paper)
    • Visualizing User-Defined, Discriminative Geo-Temporal Twitter Activity (Demo), ICWSM 2014, Ingmar Weber, Kiran Garimella. (paper, Demo1, Demo2)
    • FAST: Forecast and Analytics of Social Media and Traffic (Demo), ACM CSCW 2014, Kiran Garimella, Carlos Castillo. (paper, Demo)

      • 2013

    • Secular vs. Islamist Polarization in Egypt on Twitter, ASONAM 2013, Ingmar Weber, Kiran Garimella, Alaa Batayneh. (paper) (In the Media)
    • #Egypt: Visualizing Islamist vs. Secular Tension on Twitter (Demo), ASONAM 2013, Ingmar Weber, Kiran Garimella. (paper)
    • Inferring Audience Partisanship for YouTube Videos (Poster), WWW 2013, Ingmar Weber, Kiran Garimella, Erik Borra. (paper)
    • Political Hashtag Trends (Short paper), ECIR 2013, Ingmar Weber, Kiran Garimella, Asmelash Teka. (paper)
    • Political Hashtag Hijacking in the U.S. (Poster), WWW 2013, Asmelash Teka, Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber. (paper)

      • 2012

    • Mining Web Query Logs to analyze political issues, ACM WebScience 2012, Ingmar Weber, Kiran Garimella, Erik Borra. (paper)
    • Political Search Trends (Demo), SIGIR 2012, Ingmar Weber, Kiran Garimella, Erik Borra. (paper)

      • 2011

    • Towards Multi-Document Summarization of Scientific Articles:Making Interesting Comparisons with SciSumm, Workshop on Automatic Summarization for Different Genres, Media, and Language at ACL 2011. Nitin Agarwal, Kiran Garimella, Ravi Shankar, Carolyn Rose. (paper)
    • SciSumm: A Multi-Document Summarization System for Scientific Articles (Demo), ACL 2011. Nitin Agarwal, Kiran Garimella, Ravi Shankar, Carolyn Rose. (paper)
    • Load Prediction and Hot Spot Detection Models for Autonomic Cloud Computing, UCC 2011. Prasad Saripalli, Kiran Garimella, Ravi Shankar, Nitin Bindal. (paper)

      • 2010

    • Frequent Itemset based Hierarchical Document Clustering using Wikipedia as External Knowledge, KES 2010. Kiran Garimella, Ravi Shankar, Vikram Pudi. (paper, Masters Thesis)
    • Evolutionary Clustering using Frequent Itemsets, StreamKDD workshop, KDD 2010. Ravi Shankar, Kiran Garimella, Vikram Pudi. (paper)
    • Document Clustering using Various External Knowledge Sources, Masters Thesis. Kiran Garimella. (link)
    • For more details, visit my Google scholar page.