Sara De Candia, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Corrado Monti, and Francesco Bonchi.
Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebScience2022). ACM, 2022.
Social norms regulate collective behavior, and social media offers a large-scale lens to observe how these norms vary across groups. Using Reddit’s r/AITA community, this work analyzes how demographic factors shape moral judgments and perceptions of deviance. It finds systematic biases by gender and age, showing how online norm enforcement both mirrors and transforms the moral organization of society.