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 |