Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Figure 1: (a) Difficulties in understanding posts due to missing or assumed context, (b) need for standardization of posts (Figure 1  in  M.J. Ferdous et al.). Introduction Social media sites such as Reddit, Facebook, and YouTube play a central role in how people exchange ideas, debate current issues, and build communities, with threaded discussions serving as a key mechanism for interaction across these platforms. These platforms are designed around visual structures: nested replies, indentation, spacing, and visual grouping allow sighted users to quickly scan conversations, identify relationships between posts, and decide where to engage. For blind users who rely on screen readers, accessing these conversations involves a fundamentally different interaction model. As shown in the accompanying video, screen readers present content linearly, reading one element at a time while the user moves through posts and interface elements using keyboard commands such as Tab and Shift+Tab...

Figure 1: The Life-Cycle of a Vulnerability (Source: Horawalavithana) Cyber security attacks can be enabled by the fact that many widely-used applications share open-source libraries. As a result, a vulnerability or software weakness in one of these libraries can have far reaching impact. Once discovered, security experts may announce the vulnerability on a variety of forums, blogs, and social media sites. Cyber-adversaries  might also explore these public information channels and private discussion threads on the dark web to identify potential attack targets and ways to exploit them. In their 2019 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI '19) paper, " Mentions of Security Vulnerabilities on Reddit, Twitter and GitHub ", Sameera Horawalavithana , Abhishek Bhattacharjee , Renhao Liu , Nazim Choudhury , Lawrence O. Hall , and Adriana Iamnitchi present a quantitative analysis of user-generated content related to security vulnerabilities on th...

ISIS members immolating captured Jordanian pilot Web archives have been used for purposes other than digital preservation and browsing historical data. These purposes can be divided into three categories: Uploading content to web archives to ensure continuous availability of the data. Avoiding governments' censorship or websites' terms of service. Using URLs from web archives, instead of direct links, for news sites with opposing ideologies to avoid increasing their web traffic and deprive them of ad revenue. 1. Uploading content to web archives to ensure continuous availability of the data Web archives, by design, are intended to solve the problem of digital data preservation so people can access data when it is no longer available on the live web. In this paper,  Who and What Links to the Internet Archive , ( Yasmin AlNoamany , Ahmed AlSum , Michele C. Weigle , and Michael L. Nelson , 2013), the authors show that the percentage of the requested archived pag...