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Nicholas Diakopoulos

Nicholas Diakopoulos

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Computer Science

D-Index
41
Citations
9089
World Ranking
8696
National Ranking
3727

Overview

Nicholas Diakopoulos is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research spans across several fields, primarily focusing on social sciences and computer science. Within these broad domains, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as communication, sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, safety research, and information systems.

Their work addresses a range of topics including misinformation and its impacts, social media and politics, ethics and social impacts of AI, computational and text analysis methods, media studies and communication, data visualization and analytics, as well as hate speech and cyberbullying detection.

Diakopoulos frequently collaborates with several researchers, among them:

  • Kimon Kieslich
  • Natali Helberger
  • Jack Bandy
  • Mowafak Allaham
  • Nick Hagar

Their publication record includes papers in a variety of academic venues. They have published notably in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Digital Journalism
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • New Media & Society

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Anticipating and addressing the ethical implications of deepfakes in the context of elections" (2020, New Media & Society)
  • "ChatGPT and the AI Act" (2023, Internet Policy Review)
  • "Responsible media technology and AI: challenges and research directions" (2021, AI and Ethics)
  • "Comparing Events Coverage in Online News and Social Media: The Case of Climate Change" (2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media)
  • "Computational News Discovery: Towards Design Considerations for Editorial Orientation Algorithms in Journalism" (2020, Digital Journalism)

Overall, Nicholas Diakopoulos' corpus demonstrates a multidisciplinary approach consolidating social sciences and computing with an emphasis on the social dimensions of media, AI, and digital information flow.

Best Publications

  • Accountability in algorithmic decision making

    Nicholas Diakopoulos

  • Characterizing debate performance via aggregated twitter sentiment

    Nicholas A. Diakopoulos;David A. Shamma

  • Visualization Rhetoric: Framing Effects in Narrative Visualization

    J. Hullman;N. Diakopoulos

  • Algorithmic Transparency in the News Media

    Nicholas Diakopoulos;Michael Koliska

  • Towards quality discourse in online news comments

    Nicholas Diakopoulos;Mor Naaman

  • Diamonds in the rough: Social media visual analytics for journalistic inquiry

    Nicholas Diakopoulos;Mor Naaman;Funda Kivran-Swaine

  • Finding and assessing social media information sources in the context of journalism

    Nicholas Diakopoulos;Munmun De Choudhury;Mor Naaman

  • Algorithmic Accountability Reporting: On the Investigation of Black Boxes

    Nicholas Diakopoulos

  • Cooooooooooooooollllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Using Word Lengthening to Detect Sentiment in Microblogs

    Samuel Brody;Nicholas Diakopoulos

  • News Bots: Automating news and information dissemination on Twitter

    Tetyana Lokot;Nicholas Diakopoulos

  • Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media

    Nicholas Diakopoulos

  • Data-Driven Storytelling

    Nathalie Henry Riche;Christophe Hurter;Nicholas Diakopoulos;Sheelagh Carpendale

  • Contextifier: automatic generation of annotated stock visualizations

    Jessica Hullman;Nicholas Diakopoulos;Eytan Adar

  • Anticipating and addressing the ethical implications of deepfakes in the context of elections

    Nicholas Diakopoulos;Deborah G. Johnson

  • Structure and Content of the Discourse on Climate Change in the Blogosphere: The Big Picture

    Dag Elgesem;Lubos Steskal;Nicholas Diakopoulos

  • Unfolding the event landscape on twitter: classification and exploration of user categories

    Munmun De Choudhury;Nicholas Diakopoulos;Mor Naaman

  • Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 6th Edition

    Ben Shneiderman;Catherine Plaisant;Maxine S. Cohen;Steven Jacobs

  • Supporting Comment Moderators in Identifying High Quality Online News Comments

    Deokgun Park;Simranjit Sachar;Nicholas Diakopoulos;Niklas Elmqvist

  • Comparing events coverage in online news and social media: The case of climate change

    Alexandra Olteanu;Carlos Castillo;Nicholas Diakopoulos;Karl Aberer

  • AngleKindling: Supporting Journalistic Angle Ideation with Large Language Models

    Unknown

  • NewsViews: an automated pipeline for creating custom geovisualizations for news

    Tong Gao;Jessica R. Hullman;Eytan Adar;Brent Hecht

  • Search as News Curator: The Role of Google in Shaping Attention to News Information

    Daniel Trielli;Nicholas Diakopoulos

Frequent Co-Authors

Irfan Essa
Irfan Essa Georgia Institute of Technology
Mor Naaman
Mor Naaman Cornell University
Niklas Elmqvist
Niklas Elmqvist University of Maryland, College Park
Eytan Adar
Eytan Adar University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman University of Maryland, College Park
Claire Cardie
Claire Cardie Cornell University
Nathalie Henry Riche
Nathalie Henry Riche Microsoft (United States)
Sheelagh Carpendale
Sheelagh Carpendale Simon Fraser University
Catherine Plaisant
Catherine Plaisant University of Maryland, College Park
Munmun De Choudhury
Munmun De Choudhury Georgia Institute of Technology

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