VidShare is a video-based social media simulation platform built with The Truman Platform (see below for more info). In VidShare, users perceive they are participating in a real social media platform similar to YouTube Shorts and TikTok. The platform is fully immersive and allows users to interact with video content and other user comments.
Named after the 1998 film, The Truman Show, The Truman Platform is an open-source, complete social media simulation platform. It was developed as part of a joint effort by the Cornell Social Media Lab (SML), led by former SML post-doc Dominic DiFranzo, to provide researchers a community research infrastructure to conduct social media experiments in ecologically-valid realistic environments. Researchers can create different social media environments with a repertoire of features and affordances that fit their research goals and purposes, while ensuring participants have a naturalistic social media experience.
This current iteration studies effective objections against problematic content on social media.
https://truman-objections-v1-5d359188df22.herokuapp.com/feed_no?off_id=0&obj_t_id=0&obj_m_id=0.
Change the query parameters of the URL to be directed to the different experimental conditions. See below for more information.
| Query parameter | Definition | Values |
|---|---|---|
| off_id | Indicates the offense message type | 0, 1, 2 0: Misinformation 1: Harassment 2: Hate Speech |
| obj_t_id | Indicates the objection message type | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 0: Dismissal-Objectionable Comment 1: Imploring-Conscientious Appeal 2: Imploring-Logical Appeal 3: Threatening-Reputational Attack 4: Threatening-Violent Warning 5: Preserving-Personal Abstinence 6: Preserving-Group Maintenance none: No objection message |
| obj_m_id | Indicates the objection message number | 0, 1 0: first message 1: second message |
Zhao, P., Bazarova, N. N., DiFranzo, D., Hui, W., Kizilcec, & Margolin, D. (2024). Standing up to problematic content on social media: which objection strategies draw the audience’s approval? Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 29(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad046
Zhao, P., Bazarova, N., DiFranzo, D., Hui, W., Kizilcec, R., & Margolin, D. (2023). What are effective objections against problematic content on social media? Accepted for presentation at the 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference, Toronto, Canada.