Carnegie Mellon University

Center for Informed Democracy & Social - cybersecurity (IDeaS)

CMU's center for the study of disinformation, hate speech and extremism online

IDeaS Center for Informed Democracy & Social-cybersecurity

Conference Papers

  • Eleanor Dixon Brandt, "A Topic Modelling Approach for Developing a Typology of Climate Change Misinformation on Twitter" 
  • Nishan Gantayat, Saransh Sharma, Jeff Mulhausen & Tim Sweeney, "Redirecting demand towards credible COVID-19 vaccine sources" 
  • M. Amin Rahimian & Michael Colaresi, "Harassment, civic unraveling, and democratic resilience in the face of technology shocks" 
  • Ranada Robinson, Nia Momon & Brandon Mitchell, "Are You the Opps or Nah?: Right-Wing Disinformation within the Reparationist Movement" 
  • Abdullah Ahmad, "Increased Harassment of Female Journalists of the Iranian Diaspora During the Iranian Protest of 2022"
  • Iain Cruickshank, Robert Thomson & Nathaniel Bastian, "Using Large Language Models for Social Cybersecurity Analyses"
  • Jared Ettinger, Sam Korlanik, Emma Margolin, Tulio Tablada, Brad Honigberg, Jordan Castle, Kassie Chen, Ben Shultz & Laura Gooding, "Antisemitic Hate Groups: Associated Narratives, Entities, Infrastructures, Sentiments, and Emotions" 
  • Samantha C. Phillips, Scott Leo Renshaw, Michael Miller Yoder & Kathleen M. Carley, "Digital Chameleons: Identity Signal Changes in COVID-19 Discourse on Twitter" 
  • Zachary Devereaux, Bruce Forrester, Regine Lecocq & Marc-Andre Labrie, "Contemporary Media and the AI-goldrush from a Military Perspective"
  • Daniele Bellutta & Kathleen Carley, "Improving the Reliability of Network Analysis Using Link Prediction" 
  • Seden Akcinaroglu, Ekrem Karakoc, Thi Tran, Yu Chen & Chin-Tser Huang, "An Exploration of the Influence of Misinformation and Deterring Technologies"
  • Christine Lepird, Kathleen Carley & Anna Wu, "Flying Under the Radar : How Smaller Social Media Groups Are More Susceptible to Misinformation"
  • Iuliia Alieva & Kathleen M. Carley, "Network analysis of Russian Anti-War Discourse on Twitter during Russia's invasion of Ukraine" 
  • Yurun Tian & Osman Yagan, "Spreading processes with population heterogeneity over multi-layer networks"
  • Christine Lepird & Kathleen M. Carley, "Comparison of Online Maneuvers by Authentic and Inauthentic Local News Organizations" 
  • Isabel Murdock, Kathleen M. Carley & Osman Yagan, "Temporal Characteristics of Reddit Discussions Across Three Political Events" 
  • Robert Thibadeau, "Inoculate Yourself with a Psematic Defense!" 
  • Nestori Syynimaa, "Attacking NGO Research with Pseudoscience" 


Call For Papers, Demos and Posters

**submissions for this year's event are now closed. If you are interested in submitting for the 2025 conference, please email centerforideas@andrew.cmu.edu.