Full Papers
Using Simpson’s Paradox to Discover Interesting Patterns in Behavioral Data | |
Nazanin Alipourfard, Peter G. Fennell, Kristina Lerman |
Songs of a Future Past — An Experimental Study of Online Persuaders | |
Marzia Antenore, Alessandro Panconesi, Erisa Terolli |
When Online Harassment Is Perceived as Justified | |
Lindsay Blackwell, Tianying Chen, Sarita Schoenebeck, Cliff Lampe |
Do Diffusion Protocols Govern Cascade Growth? | |
Justin Cheng, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec, David Liben-Nowell, Bogdan State, Karthik Subbian, Lada Adamic |
Hate Lingo: A Target-Based Linguistic Analysis of Hate Speech in Social Media | |
Mai ElSherief, Vivek Kulkarni, Dana Nguyen, William Yang Wang, Elizabeth Belding |
Peer to Peer Hate: Hate Speech Instigators and Their Targets | |
Mai ElSherief, Shirin Nilizadeh, Dana Nguyen, Giovanni Vigna, Elizabeth Belding |
Characterizing Audience Engagement and Assessing Its Impact on Social Media Disclosures of Mental Illnesses | |
Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala, Tristan Labetoulle, Fred Bane, Michael L. Birnbaum, Asra F. Rizvi, John M. Kane, Munmun De Choudhury |
Reddit Rules! Characterizing an Ecosystem of Governance | |
Casey Fiesler, Jialun "Aaron" Jiang, Joshua McCann, Kyle Frye, Jed R. Brubaker |
Mobilizing the Trump Train: Understanding Collective Action in a Political Trolling Community | |
Claudia I. Flores-Saviaga, Brian C. Keegan, Saiph Savage |
Characterizing Clickbaits on Instagram | |
Yui Ha, Jeongmin Kim, Donghyeon Won, Meeyoung Cha, Jungseock Joo |
The_Tower_of_Babel.jpg: Diversity of Visual Encyclopedic Knowledge Across Wikipedia Language Editions | |
Shiqing He, Allen Yilun Lin, Eytan Adar, Brent Hecht |
Detecting Misflagged Duplicate Questions in Community Question-Answering Archives | |
Doris Hoogeveen, Andrew Bennett, Yitong Li, Karin M. Verspoor, Timothy Baldwin |
Life in the "Matrix": Human Mobility Patterns in the Cyber Space | |
Tianran Hu, Jiebo Luo, Wei Liu |
Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Exploring Illegal Streaming Cyberlockers | |
Damilola Ibosiola, Benjamin Steer, Alvaro Garcia-Recuero, Gianluca Stringhini, Steve Uhlig, Gareth Tyson |
Facebook versus Twitter: Differences in Self-Disclosure and Trait Prediction | |
Kokil Jaidka, Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Lyle H. Ungar |
Can You Verifi This? Studying Uncertainty and Decision-Making About Misinformation Using Visual Analytics | |
Alireza Karduni, Ryan Wesslen, Sashank Santhanam, Isaac Cho, Svitlana Volkova, Dustin Arendt, Samira Shaikh, Wenwen Dou |
"At Least the Pizzas You Make Are Hot": Norms, Values, and Abrasive Humor on the Subreddit r/RoastMe | |
Anna Kasunic, Geoff Kaufman |
Using Longitudinal Social Media Analysis to Understand the Effects of Early College Alcohol Use | |
Emre Kiciman, Scott Counts, Melissa Gasser |
Forecasting the Presence and Intensity of Hostility on Instagram Using Linguistic and Social Features | |
Ping Liu, Joshua Guberman, Libby Hemphill, Aron Culotta |
Predicting News Coverage of Scientific Articles | |
Ansel MacLaughlin, John Wihbey, David A. Smith |
Modeling Popularity in Asynchronous Social Media Streams with Recurrent Neural Networks | |
Swapnil Mishra, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Lexing Xie |
Leveraging Quality Prediction Models for Automatic Writing Feedback | |
Hamed Nilforoshan, Eugene Wu |
The Effect of Extremist Violence on Hateful Speech Online | |
Alexandra Olteanu, Carlos Castillo, Jeremy Boy, Kush R. Varshney |
Quootstrap: Scalable Unsupervised Extraction of Quotation-Speaker Pairs from Large News Corpora via Bootstrapping | |
Dario Pavllo, Tiziano Piccardi, Robert West |
You Are Your Metadata: Identification and Obfuscation of Social Media Users Using Metadata Information | |
Beatrice Perez, Mirco Musolesi, Gianluca Stringhini |
Network Structure, Efficiency, and Performance in WikiProjects | |
Edward L. Platt, Daniel M Romero |
Latent Structure in Collaboration: The Case of Reddit r/place | |
Jérémie Rappaz, Michele Catasta, Robert West, Karl Aberer |
Net Benefits: Digital Inequities in Social Capital, Privacy Preservation, and Digital Parenting Practices of U.S. Social Media Users | |
Elissa M. Redmiles |
“I’m Never Happy with What I Write”: Challenges and strategies of people with dyslexia on social media | |
Lindsay Reynolds, Shamoei Wu |
Media Bias Monitor: Quantifying Biases of Social Media News Outlets at Large-Scale | |
Filipe N. Ribeiro, Lucas Henrique, Fabricio Benevenuto, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Juhi Kulshrestha, Mahmoudreza Babaei, Krishna P. Gummadi |
#DebateNight: The Role and Influence of Socialbots on Twitter During the 1st 2016 U.S. Presidential Debate | |
Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Timothy Graham, Rui Zhang, Yifei Zhang, Robert Ackland, Lexing Xie |
The Impact of Recipe Features, Social Cues and Demographics on Estimating the Healthiness of Online Recipes | |
Markus Rokicki, Christoph Trattner, Eelco Herder |
A Social Media Based Examination of the Effects of Counseling Recommendations after Student Deaths on College Campuses | |
Koustuv Saha, Ingmar Weber, Munmun De Choudhury |
Anatomy of Online Hate: Developing a Taxonomy and Machine Learning Models for Identifying and Classifying Hate in Online News Media | |
Joni Salminen, Hind Almerekhi, Milica Milenković, Soon-gyo Jung, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J. Jansen |
Conspiracies Online: User Discussions in a Conspiracy Community Following Dramatic Events | |
Mattia Samory, Tanushree Mitra |
Perceptions of Censorship and Moderation Bias in Political Debate Forums | |
Qinlan Shen, Michael Miller Yoder, Yohan Jo, Carolyn P. Rose |
Predicting PISA Scores from Students’ Digital Traces | |
Ivan Smirnov |
Ecosystem or Echo-System? Exploring Content Sharing across Alternative Media Domains | |
Kate Starbird, Ahmer Arif, Tom Wilson, Katherine Van Koevering, Katya Yefimova, Daniel Scarnecchia |
QDEE: Question Difficulty and Expertise Estimation in Community Question Answering Sites | |
Jiankai Sun, Sobhan Moosavi, Rajiv Ramnath, Srinivasan Parthasarathy |
AbuSniff: Automatic Detection and Defenses Against Abusive Facebook Friends | |
Sajedul Talukder, Bogdan Carbunar |
Tracing Community Genealogy: How New Communities Emerge from the Old | |
Chenhao Tan |
Distributed Knowledge in Crowds: Crowd Performance on Hidden Profile Tasks | |
Yla Tausczik, Mark Boons |
CoupleNet: Paying Attention to Couples with Coupled Attention for Relationship Recommendation | |
Yi Tay, Luu Anh Tuan, Siu Cheung Hui |
Unsupervised Model for Topic Viewpoint Discovery in Online Debates Leveraging Author Interactions | |
Amine Trabelsi, Osmar R. Zaiane |
Beyond Views: Measuring and Predicting Engagement in Online Videos | |
Siqi Wu, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Lexing Xie |
DeepCredit: Exploiting User Cickstream for Loan Risk Prediction in P2P Lending | |
Zhi Yang, Yusi Zhang, Binghui Guo, Ben Y.Zhao, Yafei Dai |
Understanding Web Archiving Services and Their (Mis)Use on Social Media | |
Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini |
Dataset Papers
CrisisMMD: Multimodal Twitter Datasets from Natural Disasters | |
Firoj Alam, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran |
Online Petitioning Through Data Exploration and What We Found There: A Dataset of Petitions from Avaaz.org | |
Pablo Aragón, Diego Sáez-Trumper, Miriam Redi, Scott Hale, Vicenç Gómez, Andreas Kaltenbrunner |
LearningQ: A Large-Scale Dataset for Educational Question Generation | |
Guanliang Chen, Jie Yang, Claudia Hauff, Geert-Jan Houben |
Large Scale Crowdsourcing and Characterization of Twitter Abusive Behavior | |
Antigoni Maria Founta, Constantinos Djouvas, Despoina Chatzakou, Ilias Leontiadis, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Athena Vakali, Michael Sirivianos, Nicolas Kourtellis |
#Élysée2017fr: The 2017 French Presidential Campaign on Twitter | |
Ophélie Fraisier, Guillaume Cabanac, Yoann Pitarch, Romaric Besançon, Mohand Boughanem |
WhatApp Doc? A First Look at WhatsApp Public Group Data | |
Kiran Garimella, Gareth Tyson |
Sampling the News Producers: A Large News and Feature Data Set for the Study of the Complex Media Landscape | |
Benjamin D. Horne, Sara Khedr, Sibel Adali |
The Hoaxy Misinformation and Fact-Checking Diffusion Network | |
Pik-Mai Hui, Chengcheng Shao, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia |
BuzzFace: A News Veracity Dataset with Facebook User Commentary and Egos | |
Giovanni C. Santia, Jake Ryland Williams |
Follow the “Mastodon”: Structure and Evolution of a Decentralized Online Social Network | |
Matteo Zignani, Sabrina Gaito, Gian Paolo Rossi |
Poster Papers
From the User to the Medium: Neural Profiling Across Web Communities | |
Mohammad Akbari, Kunal Relia, Anas Elghafari, Rumi Chunara |
Graph Based Semi-Supervised Learning with Convolution Neural Networks to Classify Crisis Related Tweets | |
Firoj Alam, Shafiq Joty, Muhammad Imran |
EviDense: A Graph-Based Method for Finding Unique High-Impact Events with Succinct Keyword-Based Descriptions | |
Oana Balalau, Carlos Castillo, Mauro Sozio |
Opinion Context Extraction for Aspect Sentiment Analysis | |
Anil Bandhakavi, Nirmalie Wiratunga, Stewart Massie, Rushi Luhar |
Quantifying the Impact of Cognitive Biases in Question-Answering Systems | |
Keith Burghardt, Tad Hogg, Kristina Lerman |
The Gender Gap in Wikipedia Talk Pages | |
Benjamin Cabrera, Björn Ross, Marielle Dado, Maritta Heisel |
Real-World Witness Detection in Social Media via Hybrid Crowdsensing | |
Stefano Cresci, Andrea Cimino, Marco Avvenuti, Maurizio Tesconi, Felice Dell'Orletta |
$FAKE: Evidence of Spam and Bot Activity in Stock Microblogs on Twitter | |
Stefano Cresci, Fabrizio Lillo, Daniele Regoli, Serena Tardelli, Maurizio Tesconi |
Measuring the Impact of Anxiety on Online Social Interactions | |
Sarmistha Dutta, Jennifer Ma, Munmun De Choudhury |
"With 1 Follower I Must Be AWESOME :P." Exploring the Role of Irony Markers in Irony Recognition | |
Debanjan Ghosh, Smaranda Muresan |
Emotional Influence Prediction of News Posts | |
Anastasia Giachanou, Paolo Rosso, Ida Mele, Fabio Crestani |
How Constraints Affect Content: The Case of Twitter’s Switch from 140 to 280 Characters | |
Kristina Gligorić, Ashton Anderson, Robert West |
Twits, Twats and Twaddle: Trends in Online Abuse towards UK Politicians | |
Genevieve Gorrell, Mark A Greenwood, Ian Roberts, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva |
Professional Gender Gaps Across US Cities | |
Karri Haranko, Emilio Zagheni, Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber |
Collaboration in N-th Order Derivative Creation | |
Shiori Hironaka, Kosetsu Tsukuda, Masahiro Hamasaki, Masataka Goto |
Discovering Political Slang in Readers' Comments | |
Nabil Hossain, Thanh Thuy Trang Tran, Henry Kautz |
Modeling and Visualizing Locus of Control with Facebook Language | |
Kokil Jaidka, Anneke Buffone, Johannes Eichstaedt, Masoud Rouhizadeh, Lyle H. Ungar |
Describing and Classifying Post-Mortem Content on Social Media | |
Jialun "Aaron" Jiang, Jed R. Brubaker |
Assessing the Accuracy of Four Popular Face Recognition Tools for Inferring Gender, Age, and Race | |
Soon-gyo Jung, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Joni Salminen, Bernard Jim Jansen |
Leveraging Friendship Networks for Dynamic Link Prediction in Social Interaction Networks | |
Ruthwik R. Junuthula, Kevin S. Xu, Vijay K. Devabhaktuni |
The Dynamics of Peer-Produced Political Information During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign | |
Brian C. Keegan |
Improving Tourism Prediction Models Using Climate and Social Media Data: A Fine-Grained Approach | |
Amir Khatibi, Fabiano Belem, Ana P. Silva, Dennis Shasha, Jussara Federal University of Minas Gerais Almeida, Marcos A. Goncalves |
Joint Modeling of Text and Networks for Cascade Prediction | |
Cheng Li, Xiaoxiao Guo, Qiaozhu Mei |
On Group Popularity Prediction in Event-Based Social Networks | |
Guangyu Li, Yong Liu, Bruno Ribeiro, Hao Ding |
Mining the Relationship between Emoji Usage Patterns and Personality | |
Weijian Li, Yuxiao Chen, Tianran Hu, Jiebo Luo |
Tweeting AI: Perceptions of Lay versus Expert Twitterati | |
Lydia Manikonda, Subbarao Kambhampati |
Modeling Evolution of Topics in Large-Scale Temporal Text Corpora | |
Elaheh Momeni, Shanika Karunasekera, Palash Goyal, Kristina Lerman |
"Is This an STD? Please Help!": Online Information Seeking for Sexually Transmitted Diseases on Reddit | |
Alicia L. Nobles, Caitlin N. Dreisbach, Jessica Keim-Malpass, Laura E. Barnes |
When Politicians Talk About Politics: Identifying Political Tweets of Brazilian Congressmen | |
Lucas S. Oliveira, Pedro O.S. Vaz de Melo, Marcelo S. Amaral, José Antônio G. Pinho |
Is the Sharing Economy About Sharing at All? A Linguistic Analysis of Airbnb Reviews | |
Giovanni Quattrone, Serena Nicolazzo, Antonino Nocera, Daniele Quercia, Licia Capra |
Mater Certa Est, Pater Numquam: What Can Facebook Advertising Data Tell Us about Male Fertility Rates? | |
Francesco Rampazzo, Emilio Zagheni, Ingmar Weber, Maria Rita Testa, Francesco Billari |
Characterizing and Detecting Hateful Users on Twitter | |
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Pedro H. Calais, Yuri A. Santos, Virgílio A. F. Almeida, Wagner Meira Jr. |
Self-Representation on Twitter Using Emoji Skin Color Modifiers | |
Alexander Robertson, Walid Magdy, Sharon Goldwater |
Time Reveals All Wounds: Modeling Temporal Characteristics of Cyberbullying | |
Devin Soni, Vivek Singh |
The Million Tweets Fallacy: Activity and Feedback Are Uncorrelated | |
Dan Vilenchik |
"Bacon Bacon Bacon": Food-Related Tweets and Sentiment in Metro Detroit | |
V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran, Daniel M. Romero, Xinyan Zhao, Deahan Yu, Iris Gomez-Lopez, Jin Xiu Lu, Bradley Iott, Ana Baylin, Philippa Clarke, Veronica Berrocal, Robert Goodspeed, Tiffany Veinot |
Bumper Stickers on the Twitter Highway: Analyzing the Speed and Substance of Profile Changes | |
Ryan Wesslen, Sagar Nandu, Omar Eltayeby, Tiffany Gallicano, Sara Levens, Min Jiang, Samira Shaikh |
Does Reciprocal Gratefulness in Twitter Predict Neighborhood Safety?: Comparing 911 Calls Where Users Reside or Use Social Media | |
Ann Marie White, Linxiao Bai, Christopher Homan, Melanie Funchess, Catherine Cerulli, Amen Ptah, Deepak Pandita, Henry Kautz |
Understanding Self-Narration of Personally Experienced Racism on Reddit | |
Diyi Yang, Scott Counts |
Extracting Predictive Statements with Their Scope from News Articles | |
Navya Yarrabelly, Kamalakar Karlapalem |
Demo Papers
Automatic Story Evolution Wikification from Social Data | |
Omar Alonso, Vasileios Kandylas, Serge Eric Tremblay |
Automatically Conceptualizing Social Media Analytics Data via Personas | |
Soon-gyo Jung, Joni O. Salminen, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J Jansen |
Urban Maps of Social Activity | |
Stewart Whiting, Omar Alonso, Vasileios Kandylas, Serge Eric Tremblay |