DSM: Digital and Social Media

DSM-8

Culture, Identity, and Inclusion

Jan 7
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Monarchy 5

Papers (2)

  • Reframing Cultural Heritage Digitization: Co-Creation, Inclusion, and the Quadruple Helix Approach
    Aelita Skarzauskiene, Monika Maciuliene, Kristina Kovaitė
  • The Hidden Side of Digital Inclusion: Psychological Barriers to Competence in Social Media Use
    Joana Macedo, Joana Neves, Catarina Neves, Tiago Oliveira, Frederico Cruz-Jesus

DSM-16

Netnography in System Sciences Research

Jan 7
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Monarchy 5

Papers (2)

  • Faith in the Feed: A Netnography of Delusional Consumption Ideology
    Rossella Gambetti, Silvia Biraghi, Angela Beccanulli
  • If You Move to Our Country, Learn the Language! A Netnography Approach to Studying Language Ideologies in Finland
    Hilla Back, Iaroslav Kriuchkov, Philipp Back

DSM-17

Resilient Digital Communities: Social Media, Crisis Response, and Collective Action

Jan 7
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Lahaina Boardroom

Papers (3)

  • A Survey of Social Media Users’ Decision-Making Processes when Sharing Information in Crisis Contexts
    Apoorva Chauhan
  • How Do Scientists Communicate on Social Media During Crisis?
    Till Schirrmeister, Stefan Stieglitz
  • CognitiveSky: Scalable Sentiment and Narrative Analysis for Decentralized Social Media
    Gaurab Chhetri, Anandi Dutta, Subasish Das

DSM-9

Culture, Identity, and Inclusion

Jan 7
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Monarchy 5

Papers (4)

  • Privacy Concerns about AI Smart Glasses: A Cross-Cultural Study of the U.S. and South Korea
    T.Makana Chock, Se Jung Kim, Yoon Lee
  • Asymmetric Fragmentation: How Subscription-Based Monetization Fractures Creator Communities
    Yuanze Sun, Cheng Chen, Xiaohui Zhang, Keran Zhao
  • From Fragmentation to Inclusion: How Lived Experiences of Vegan-Content Creators Shape Content to Mobilize Diverse Motivations
    lolita perez-ayala, Jenifer Winter
  • I Hate It (Smiley with Heart): Exploring Generation Z’s Perceived Socio-Psychological Motives, Attitudes, and Cultural Impact on Incongruent Emoji Use
    Juyeon Shin, Chia-Hsin Yeh

DSM-15

Metaverse, Mixed Reality, and Digital Me

Jan 7
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Maui Suite 2

Papers (4)

  • Self-Disclosure in Metaverse Mental Healthcare: The Role of Avatars
    Runjie Xie, Siao Fang Chen, Sandra Birnstiel, Benedikt Morschheuser
  • My Fate Is to Die Young, But to Live Forever in Song: Echeloned Design Science Research to a Digital-Me Expert System Design
    Petri Parvinen, Osmo Mattila, Mohammad Soltanieh-Ha, Tuure Tuunanen
  • Design Elements for Brand Representation in Conversational Agents
    Essi Aittamaa, Dominik Siemon, Shivansh Singh
  • Better Information Understanding through Virtual Technologies? A VR Experiment on Data Interpretation
    Elpida Bampouni, Hairui Tang, Nannan Xi, Gökhan Buturak, Panu Kalmi, Ans Ahmad, Nikoletta-Zampeta Legaki, Juho Hamari

DSM-12

Games and Gaming

Jan 8
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Lahaina 2

Papers (3)

  • An Eye for an Eye and A Smile for a Smile: Examining Aggressive and Supportive Behavioral Alignment Among Taiwanese Adolescence Who Play Video Games
    Nick Bowman, Christine Cook, Chingching Chang
  • A Taxonomy of Bad Trophies — Examining Online Fan Discourse on Disliked Trophies
    Asli Tece Bayrak, Dan Staines
  • From Patches to Patterns: A Process Perspective on Continuous Innovation in Modular Game Systems
    Florian Wagner, Christoph Rosenkranz

DSM-13

Games and Gaming

Jan 8
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Lahaina 2

Papers (3)

  • Simulated Intimacy, but Real Connection: Perceived Reciprocity and Romantic Closeness make Otome Fun to Play
    Elena Yifei Zhao, Nick Bowman
  • Why Do Viewers Swarm the Screen? Exploring Danmaku Collective Behavior of Viewers through Sensory Stimuli in Game Live Streaming
    Jinyan Duan, Liang Zhao, Xing Li, Chong Wu
  • Digital Narrative in Puzzle Video Games: How Narrative Affects Players’ Motivation, Enjoyment, and Emotional Demand
    Natalie Lin, Christine Cook

DSM-14

Generative AI and AI-generated Contents on Social Media

Jan 8
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Regency Boardroom

Papers (3)

  • Messaging Maneuvers: Generating and Evaluating Strategic Counternarratives with Large Language Models
    Rohan Leekha, Olga Simek, Adam Tse, Travis Loof, Nishka Pant
  • Beyond Memory: Emotional and Ethical Responses to AI-Generated Digital Resurrection Content
    Kwang Min Nam, Gi Jun Jo, Hanbyul Choi
  • Understanding the Impact of AI Label Disclosure on Engagement with Deepfakes Videos
    Qinhui Wang, Chenzhang Bao, Dursun Delen, Emre Okçular

DSM-18

Social Media Influencers and Influencing

Jan 8
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Lahaina 4

Papers (4)

  • Social Media Influencers: A Systematic Review and Consolidated Definition
    Farnaz Pirasteh, Julian Marx, Ofir Turel
  • Unpacking Perfectionism in the Social Media Context: Dimensional Structure and Nomological Placement
    Margarita Gladkaya, Mattie Bryant, Jason Bennett Thatcher, Hanna Krasnova
  • Blessing or Curse? How Peer Customer Endorsement Shapes Product Ratings on Social Commerce Platforms
    Dang Jinming, Xiang Gong, Christy Cheung, Matthew Kwok On Lee
  • Link in Bio, But Where? Strategic Platform Adoption by Influencers in the Creator Economy
    Anton Ivanov, Mukul Kaushik

DSM-10

Decision Making Bias and Misinformation in Online Social Networks

Jan 8
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Maui Suite 5

Papers (2)

  • Credibility Staining and the Boundaries of Expertise: The Reputational Cost of Commenting on Polarized Topics
    Emily Andrews, Nathan Walter, Kimberly Pusateri
  • The Role of Sentiment Shift: Measuring and Explaining Performance of Fake News Detection After LLM Laundering
    Rupak Kumar Das, Jonathan Dodge

DSM-11

Digital and Social Media in Enterprise

Jan 8
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Maui Suite 5

Papers (1)

  • Is No Address Better Than the Homepage Address? Possible Initial Search Point Tunneling as a Vivid Human-Computer Interaction Factor in the Shaping of Information Retrieval Efficiency
    Jacek Wachowicz, Anna Maria Nikodemska-Wolowik

DSM-19

Social Media Influencers and Influencing

Jan 8
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Lahaina 4

Papers (3)

  • Crafting the Athlete-Influencer Image: A Multimodal Analysis of Student-Athletes’ Social Media Profiles
    Weizhe Li, Yizhou Qian, Chenglong Xu
  • "Our special price is only once, and then there will be no more" The Language Magic in Live Streams: How Vocal and Semantic Features of Influencers Dynamically Trigger Purchases
    Jinyan Duan, Chenyang Fan, Hongyu Yan, Chong Wu
  • Pack and Measure: An Effective Approach for Influence Propagation in Social Networks
    Faisal Abu-Khzam, Ghinwa Bou Matar, Sergio Thoumi

DSM-4

Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies

Jan 9
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Monarchy 5

Papers (4)

  • The Emotional Rift: Evaluating Affective Polarization on TikTok during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
    Viva Mantz, Melisa Özdemir, Stefan Stieglitz
  • You can’t really ‘untag’: The Material Addressability of X and the Undermining of Journalistic Authority
    Marloes Geboers, Tomás Dodds, Mark Boukes, Eirliani Abdul Rahman
  • Inspiration Contagion Effects: Elevated Thoughts and Transcendent Emotions
    Chingching Chang, Mu-Jung Cho
  • Gatekeepers in an Open Market? The Case of Contemporary NFT Marketplaces
    Tejas Kotha, Kushagra Bhatnagar, Leona Chandra Kruse, Matti Rossi

DSM-5

Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies

Jan 9
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Monarchy 5

Papers (4)

  • When Image Emotion Outpaces Text: The Role of Emotional Intensity Incongruity in Driving Engagement on Instagram
    Asal Abbasi Bastami, Masoud Salehi
  • Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage: An Ethnographic Exploration of Dabenqu’s Transformation into Online Engagement in Dali, China
    Liang Zhao, Huimin Liu
  • Reframing China in Digital Discourse: U.S. Representations across Platforms after the TikTok Ban
    XIAOTAN WAN
  • Exploring the Association between Livestreamers’ Self-identified Gender and Their Viewers’ Linguistic Behavior
    Seung Woo Chae, Sung Hyun Lee

DSM-2

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Analytics for Social Media

Jan 9
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Monarchy 2

Papers (4)

  • Examining the Efficacy of Multi-Theoretical Social Science-informed Deep Learning Models in Predicting Mob Outcomes
    Samer Al-khateeb, Jack Burright, James Brainard, Rebecca Murray, Nitin Agarwal
  • Affective Foraging: Knowledge Graph-Assisted Analysis of Emotion and Topic Information Patches in Online Discourse on the 2025 US Tariffs
    Brice Valentin Kok-Shun, Johnny Chan, Gabrielle Peko, David Sundaram
  • An Agent-Based Model to Simulate Individual Reframing of News Media Posts on Social Media
    Lumin Shao, Roberta Bernardi, Jie Zhang
  • A Comprehensive Study on the Role of Mental Health Advocates on Instagram and Their Effects on User Engagement
    Honeyeh Yazdizadeh, Samira Farivar

DSM-6

Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies

Jan 9
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Monarchy 5

Papers (4)

  • Machine Heuristic at Work: User Evaluations and Folk Theories of Weather News in ‘Immersive Mixed Reality’ Video
    Jin Chen, Rachel Peng
  • Thanking the Algorithm: Discovering Prosocial Communities through YouTube Music Recommendation Pathways
    Rich Gazan
  • Acceptability of Chatbot Support for Older Adolescents Involved in Cyberbullying
    Celeste Campos-Castillo, Yevgenia Minchuk, Linnea Laestadius
  • Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models for Visual Framing Analysis in News Imagery: A Theory-Driven Benchmark
    Linqi Lu, Zihan Wan, Hyerin Kwon, Sang Jung Kim, Jiwon Kang, Laila Abbas, Jiawei Liu, Douglas McLeod

DSM-3

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Analytics for Social Media

Jan 9
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Monarchy 2

Papers (1)

  • The Color of Engagement: How Visual Hue, Hedonic Cues, and Audio Arousal Shape Fan Attention in Short-Form Sports Videos
    Taewoong Yoo, Prasanna Dasari, Yonghwan Chang

DSM-7

Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies

Jan 9
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Monarchy 5

Papers (3)

  • “Is This News?”: How Audiences Recognize, Expect, and Evaluate Emerging News Genres in Short-Form Video Social Media
    Jocelyn McKinnon-Crowley, Kian Lua, Kevin Crowston, Keren Henderson
  • Channel Expansion Theory: A Comprehensive Meta-analysis, Literature Review, and Examination of Boundary Conditions
    Min Ou, John Carlson, An Hu, Qin Weng
  • Hidden by Design: Disaffordances and User Communication on WeChat
    Yinan Sun, Dan Suthers