Gautam Kishore Shahi | Team des Fachgebietes Digital Communication and Transformation

Wissenschaftlicher MitarbeiterGautam Kishore Shahi, M.Sc.

Address : Forsthausweg 2, 47057 Duisburg
Room : LE 312
Telephone : +49 203 379 4237
Mail : gautam.shahi@uni-due.de

since 06/2019	PhD student in the Graduate College User-Centered Social Media , Chair for Digital Communication and Transformation with Prof. Dr. Stieglitz, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg
09/2016 - 03/2019	Degree in Computer Science (MSc), DISI , University of Trento, Italy
11/2017 - 02/2018	Exchange Program for Master Thesis, KEDRI , Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
07/2017 - 10/2017	Research Internship at WEST , University of Koblenz-Landau
08/2011 - 05/2015	Studied Information Technology (BTech), BIT , Sindri, India

06/2015 - 09/2017

2018	Nominated for the best student paper award in the 25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing ( ICONIP 2018 ), Siem Reap, Cambodia, Dec 14-16, 2018.
2018	Honorary Mention (2nd Prize) for the Transport Ontology in Vocabulary-Carnival in SEMANTiCS 2018 , The Linked Data Conference 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Vienna, Austria, September 10-13, 2018.
2018	Best group work award at WSTNET Web Science Summer School 2018 ( WWSSS'18 ), Hanover, Germany, 30th July to 4th August 2018.

Conference contributions

Shahi, GK, Tsoplefack, WK (2022). Mitigating Harmful Content on Social Media Using An Interactive User Interface. SocInfo 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS, vol . Springer, Cham.
R ̈ochert, D., Shahi, GK, Neubaum, G., Stieglitz, S. (2022, May). Political Polarization in Times of Crisis: Ideological Bias of News Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic on YouTube. At 72nd Annual ICA Conference
Shahi, GK, Clausen, S., & Stieglitz, S. (2022). Who shapes crisis communication on Twitter? An analysis of influential German-language accounts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shahi, GK, & Majchrzak, TA (2021). Exploring the Spread of COVID-19 Misinformation on Twitter. EasyChair Preprint, (6009).
Shahi, GK, Majchrzak, TA (2022). AUSED: An Annotation Framework of Multimodal Social Media Data. Intelligent Technologies and Applications. INTAP 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1616. Springer, Cham.
Hernandez-Bocanegra DC, Borchert A, Brünker F, Shahi GK, & Ross B (2020, December). Towards a Better Understanding of Online Influence: Differences in Twitter Communication Between Companies and Influencers. In 31st Australasian Conference on Information Systems (p. 18). Association for Information Systems.
Shahi GK, Nandini D. FakeCovid - A Multilingual Cross-domain Fact Check News Dataset for COVID-19. arXiv preprint arXiv: 2006.11343. 2020 Jun 19. http://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/pdf/2020_14.pdf

Journal Publications

Kazemi A, Garimella K, Shahi GK, Gaffney D, & Hale SA (2022). Research note: Tiplines to uncover misinformation on encrypted platforms: A case study of the 2019 Indian general election on WhatsApp. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.
Röchert, D., Shahi, GK, Neubaum, G., Ross, B., & Stieglitz, S. (2021). The Networked Context of COVID-19 Misinformation: Informational Homogeneity on YouTube at the Beginning of the Pandemic. Online Social Networks and Media, 26, 100164.
Shahi, GK, Dirkson, A, & Majchrzak, TA (2021). An exploratory study of covid-19 misinformation on twitter. Online social networks and media, 22, 100104.