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Home / Proceedings / Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media /

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2012): Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Full Papers

  • The YouTube Social Network

    Mirjam Wattenhofer,Roger Wattenhofer,Zack Zhu

    354-361

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  • Automatic Versus Human Navigation in Information Networks

    Robert West,Jure Leskovec

    362-369

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  • The Emergence of Conventions in Online Social Networks

    Farshad Kooti,Haeryun Yang,Meeyoung Cha,Krishna Gummadi,Winter Mason

    194-201

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  • Geographic Dissection of the Twitter Network

    Juhi Kulshrestha,Farshad Kooti,Ashkan Nikravesh,Krishna Gummadi

    202-209

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  • #bias: Measuring the Tweeting Behavior of Propagandists

    Cristian Lumezanu,Nick Feamster,Hans Klein

    210-217

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  • Modeling Diffusion in Social Networks Using Network Properties

    Duc Luu,Ee-Peng Lim,Tuan-Anh Hoang,Freddy Chua

    218-225

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  • On the Study of Social Interactions in Twitter

    Sofus Macskassy

    226-233

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  • Crossing Media Streams with Sentiment: Domain Adaptation in Blogs, Reviews and Twitter

    Yelena Mejova,Padmini Srinivasan

    234-241

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  • Have You Heard?: How Gossip Flows Through Workplace Email

    Tanushree Mitra,Eric Gilbert

    242-249

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  • Hiding in Plain Sight: A Tale of Trust and Mistrust inside a Community of Citizen Reporters

    Eni Mustafaraj,Panagiotis Metaxas,Samantha Finn,Andres Monroy-Hernandez

    250-257

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  • On the Study of Diurnal Urban Routines on Twitter

    Mor Naaman,Amy Zhang,Samuel Brody,Gilad Lotan

    258-265

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  • Don’t Disturb My Circles! Boundary Preservation Is at the Center of Location-Sharing Concerns

    Xinru Page,Alfred Kobsa,Bart Knijnenburg

    266-273

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  • Evolution of Experts in Question Answering Communities

    Aditya Pal,Shuo Chang,Joseph Konstan

    274-281

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  • Managing Bad News in Social Media: A Case Study on Domino’s Pizza Crisis

    Jaram Park,Meeyoung Cha,Hoh Kim,Jaeseung Jeong

    282-289

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  • Modeling Destructive Group Dynamics in On-Line Gaming Communities

    Akshay Patil,Juan Liu,Bob Price,Hossam Sharara,Oliver Brdiczka

    290-297

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  • The Social World of Twitter: Topics, Geography, and Emotions

    Daniele Quercia,Licia Capra,Jon Crowcroft

    298-305

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  • Facebook and Privacy: The Balancing Act of Personality, Gender, and Relationship Currency

    Daniele Quercia,Diego Las Casas,Joao Paulo Pesce,David Stillwell,Michal Kosinski,Virgilio Almeida,Jon Crowcroft

    306-313

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  • Coping with the Document Frequency Bias in Sentiment Classification

    Abdelhalim Rafrafi,Vincent Guigue,Patrick Gallinari

    314-321

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  • Modeling Spread of Disease from Social Interactions

    Adam Sadilek,Henry Kautz,Vincent Silenzio

    322-329

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  • Privacy in Interaction: Exploring Disclosure and Social Capital in Facebook

    Frederic Stutzman,Jessica Vitak,Nicole Ellison,Rebecca Gray,Cliff Lampe

    330-337

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  • Facebook, Youth and Privacy in Networked Publics

    Zeynep Tufekci

    338-345

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  • The Length of Bridge Ties: Structural and Geographic Properties of Online Social Interactions

    Yana Volkovich,Salvatore Scellato,David Laniado,Cecilia Mascolo,Andreas Kaltenbrunner

    346-353

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  • Grief-Stricken in a Crowd: The Language of Bereavement and Distress in Social Media

    Jed Brubaker,Funda Kivran-Swaine,Lee Taber,Gillian Hayes

    42-49

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  • Extracting Diverse Sentiment Expressions with Target-Dependent Polarity from Twitter

    Lu Chen,Wenbo Wang,Meenakshi Nagarajan,Shaojun Wang,Amit Sheth

    50-57

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  • The Livehoods Project: Utilizing Social Media to Understand the Dynamics of a City

    Justin Cranshaw,Raz Schwartz,Jason Hong,Norman Sadeh

    58-65

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  • Not All Moods Are Created Equal! Exploring Human Emotional States in Social Media

    Munmun De Choudhury,Scott Counts,Michael Gamon

    66-73

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  • You Too?! Mixed-Initiative LDA Story Matching to Help Teens in Distress

    Karthik Dinakar,Birago Jones,Henry Lieberman,Rosalind Picard,Carolyn Rose,Matthew Thoman,Roi Reichart

    74-81

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  • War Versus Inspirational in Forrest Gump: Cultural Effects in Tagging Communities

    Zhenhua Dong,Chuan Shi,Shilad Sen,Loren Terveen,John Riedl

    82-89

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  • So.cl: An Interest Network for Informal Learning

    Shelly Farnham,Michal Lahav,David Raskino,Lili Cheng,Tom Laird-McConnell

    90-97

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  • Distributional Footprints of Deceptive Product Reviews

    Song Feng,Longfei Xing,Anupam Gogar,Yejin Choi

    98-105

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  • Grassroots Professional Development: How Teachers Use Twitter

    Andrea Forte,Melissa Humphreys,Thomas Park

    106-113

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  • Exploring Social-Historical Ties on Location-Based Social Networks

    Huiji Gao,Jiliang Tang,Huan Liu

    114-121

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  • Defense Mechanism or Socialization Tactic? Improving Wikipedia’s Notifications to Rejected Contributors

    R. Geiger,Aaron Halfaker,Maryana Pinchuk,Steven Walling

    122-129

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  • Who Does What on the Web: A Large-Scale Study of Browsing Behavior

    Sharad Goel,Jake Hofman,M. Sirer

    130-137

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  • SearchBuddies: Bringing Search Engines into the Conversation

    Brent Hecht,Jaime Teevan,Meredith Morris,Dan Liebling

    138-145

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  • Virality and Susceptibility in Information Diffusions

    Tuan-Anh Hoang,Ee-Peng Lim

    146-153

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  • What Were the Tweets About? Topical Associations between Public Events and Twitter Feeds

    Yuheng Hu,Ajita John,Dorée Seligmann,Fei Wang

    154-161

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  • Temporal Motifs Reveal the Dynamics of Editor Interactions in Wikipedia

    David Jurgens,Tsai-Ching Lu

    162-169

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  • OMG, I Have to Tweet that! A Study of Factors that Influence Tweet Rates

    Emre Kıcıman

    170-177

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  • Event Diffusion Patterns in Social Media

    Minkyoung Kim,Lexing Xie,Peter Christen

    178-185

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  • Around the Water Cooler: Shared Discussion Topics and Contact Closeness in Social Search

    Saranga Komanduri,Lujun Fang,David Huffaker,Jessica Staddon

    186-193

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  • Modeling Polarizing Topics: When Do Different Political Communities Respond Differently to the Same News?

    Ramnath Balasubramanyan,William Cohen,Douglas Pierce,David Redlawsk

    18-25

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  • The Pulse of News in Social Media: Forecasting Popularity

    Roja Bandari,Sitaram Asur,Bernardo Huberman

    26-33

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  • Cross-Community Influence in Discussion Fora

    Václav Belák,Samantha Lam,Conor Hayes

    34-41

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  • Learning the Nature of Information in Social Networks

    Rakesh Agrawal,Michalis Potamias,Evimaria Terzi

    44966

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  • People Are Strange When You’re a Stranger: Impact and Influence of Bots on Social Networks

    Luca Maria Aiello,Martina Deplano,Rossano Schifanella,Giancarlo Ruffo

    45216

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Poster Papers

  • Computational Predictors in Online Social Deliberations

    Beverly Woolf,Thomas Murray,Xiaoxi Xu,Leon Osterweil,Lori Clarke,Leah Wing,Ethan Katsh

    603-606

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  • A Supervised Approach to Predict Company Acquisition with Factual and Topic Features Using Profiles and News Articles on TechCrunch

    Guang Xiang,Zeyu Zheng,Miaomiao Wen,Jason Hong,Carolyn Rose,Chao Liu

    607-610

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  • Transductive Learning for Real-Time Twitter Search

    Xin Zhang,Ben He,Tiejian Luo

    611-614

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  • What Kobe Bryant and Britney Spears Have in Common: Mining Wikipedia for Characteristics of Notable Individuals

    Pauline Ng

    523-526

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  • A Sentiment-Aware Approach to Community Formation in Social Media

    Thin Nguyen,Dinh Phung,Brett Adams,Svetha Venkatesh

    527-530

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  • Network Analysis of Recurring YouTube Spam Campaigns

    Derek O'Callaghan,Martin Harrigan,Joe Carthy,Pádraig Cunningham

    531-534

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  • Trust Propagation with Mixed-Effects Models

    Jan Overgoor,Ellery Wulczyn,Christopher Potts

    535-538

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  • Differences in Language and Style Between Two Social Media Communities

    Cecile Paris,Paul Thomas,Stephen Wan

    539-542

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  • Emotional Divergence Influences Information Spreading in Twitter

    Rene Pfitzner,Antonios Garas,Frank Schweitzer

    543-546

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  • Tag Recommendation by Link Prediction Based on Supervised Machine Learning

    Manisha Pujari,Rushed Kanawati

    547-550

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  • Finding Influential Authors in Brand-Page Communities

    Hemant Purohit,Jitendra Ajmera,Sachindra Joshi,Ashish Verma,Amit Sheth

    551-554

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  • Talk of the City: Our Tweets, Our Community Happiness

    Daniele Quercia,Diarmuid O Seaghdha,Jon Crowcroft

    555-558

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  • Social Media Is NOT that Bad! The Lexical Quality of Social Media

    Luz Rello,Ricardo Baeza-Yates

    559-562

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  • Conversation Practices and Network Structure in Twitter

    Luca Rossi,Matteo Magnani

    563-566

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  • How To Tell Head From Tail in User-Generated Content Corpora

    Nishanth Sastry

    567-570

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  • Social Network Sites: Indispensable or Optional Social Tools?

    Irina Shklovski

    571-574

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  • Factors Affecting End-User Satisfaction on Facebook

    Christopher Sibona,Jae Hoon Choi

    575-578

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  • Evaluating Real-Time Search over Tweets

    Dean McCullough,Jimmy Lin,Craig Macdonald,Iadh Ounis,Richard McCreadie

    579-582

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  • Filtering Noisy Web Data by Identifying and Leveraging Users’ Contributions

    Alina Stoica

    583-586

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  • Enhancing Event Descriptions through Twitter Mining

    Hristo Tanev,Maud Ehrmann,Jakub Piskorski,Vanni Zavarella

    587-590

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  • Stuff IBMers Say: Microblogs as an Expression of Organizational Culture

    Jennifer Thom,David Millen

    591-594

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  • What Catches Your Attention? An Empirical Study of Attention Patterns in Community Forums

    Claudia Wagner,Matthew Rowe,Markus Strohmaier,Harith Alani

    595-598

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  • Mixed Membership Models for Exploring User Roles in Online Fora

    Arthur White,Jeffrey Chan,Conor Hayes,Brendan Murphy

    599-602

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  • De-Layering Social Networks by Shared Tastes of Friendships

    Laura Dietz,Ben Gamari,John Guiver,Edward Snelson,Ralf Herbrich

    443-446

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  • Creating Stories: Social Curation of Twitter Messages

    Kevin Duh,Tsutomu Hirao,Akisato Kimura,Katsuhiko Ishiguro,Tomoharu Iwata,Ching-Man Au Yeung

    447-450

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  • Docs.com: Social File Sharing in Facebook

    Shelly Farnham,Andrzej Turski,Sameer Halai

    451-454

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  • Understanding Actionable Knowledge in Social Media: BBC Question Time and Twitter, a Case Study

    Maria Angela Ferrario,Will Simm,Jon Whittle,Paul Rayson,Maria Terzi,Jane Binner

    455-458

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  • Inferring Gender from the Content of Tweets: A Region Specific Example

    Clay Fink,Jonathon Kopecky,Maksym Morawski

    459-462

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  • Analysis of Elderly Persons’ Social Network: Need for an Appropriate Online Platform

    Tobias Fritsch,Frederick Steinke,Daniel Brem

    463-466

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  • Using Group Membership Markers for Group Identification

    Jean Gawron,Dipak Gupta,Kellen Stephens,Ming-Hsiang Tsou,Brian Spitzberg,Li An

    467-470

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  • If Likes Were Votes: An Empirical Study on the 2011 Italian Administrative Elections

    Fabio Giglietto

    471-474

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  • Do Linguistic Style and Readability of Scientific Abstracts Affect their Virality?

    Marco Guerini,Alberto Pepe,Bruno Lepri

    475-478

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  • Tweetin’ in the Rain: Exploring Societal-Scale Effects of Weather on Mood

    Aniko Hannak,Eric Anderson,Lisa Feldman Barrett,Sune Lehmann,Alan Mislove,Mirek Riedewald

    479-482

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  • Tracking Sentiment and Topic Dynamics from Social Media

    Yulan He,Chenghua Lin,Wei Gao,Kam-Fai Wong

    483-486

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  • Semantic Social Networks Constructed by Topical Aspects of Conversations: An Explorative Study

    Jiyeon Jang,Jinhyuk Choi,Gwan Jang,Sung-Hyon Myaeng

    487-490

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  • Weblog Analysis for Predicting Correlations in Stock Price Evolutions

    Milad Kharratzadeh,Mark Coates

    491-494

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  • Do You Feel What I Feel? Social Aspects of Emotions in Twitter Conversations

    Suin Kim,JinYeong Bak,Alice Oh

    495-498

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  • More of a Receiver Than a Giver: Why Do People Unfollow in Twitter?

    Haewoon Kwak,Sue Moon,Wonjae Lee

    499-502

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  • A Study of “Churn” in Tweets and Real-Time Search Queries

    Jimmy Lin,Gilad Mishne

    503-506

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  • Opinion Retrieval in Twitter

    Zhunchen Luo,Miles Osborne,Ting Wang

    507-510

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  • Where Is This Tweet From? Inferring Home Locations of Twitter Users

    Jalal Mahmud,Jeffrey Nichols,Clemens Drews

    511-514

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  • Narcotweets: Social Media in Wartime

    Andrés Monroy-Hernández,Emre Kiciman,Danah Boyd,Scott Counts

    515-518

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  • Evolutionary Clustering and Analysis of User Behaviour in Online Forums

    Donn Morrison,Ian McLoughlin,Alice Hogan,Conor Hayes

    519-522

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  • How You Met Me

    Lada Adamic,Thomas Lento,Andrew Fiore

    371-374

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  • On the Geo-Indicativeness of Non-Georeferenced Text

    Benjamin Adams,Krzysztof Janowicz

    375-378

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  • Catching the Long-Tail: Extracting Local News Events from Twitter

    Puneet Agarwal,Rajgopal Vaithiyanathan,Saurabh Sharma,Gautam Shroff

    379-382

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  • Network Sampling Designs for Relational Classification

    Nesreen Ahmed,Jennifer Neville,Ramana Kompella

    383-386

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  • Homophily and Latent Attribute Inference: Inferring Latent Attributes of Twitter Users from Neighbors

    Faiyaz Al Zamal,Wendy Liu,Derek Ruths

    387-390

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  • Towards Analyzing Micro-Blogs for Detection and Classification of Real-Time Intentions

    Nilanjan Banerjee,Dipanjan Chakraborty,Anupam Joshi,Sumit Mittal,Angshu Rai,Balaraman Ravindran

    391-394

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  • More or Less: Amount of Personal Information Displayed in Social Network Site Profiles and Its Impact on Viewers’ Intentions to Socialize with the Profile Owner

    Lemi Baruh,Yoram Chisik,Christophe Bisson,Basak Senova

    395-398

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  • An Evaluation of the Role of Sentiment in Second Screen Microblog Search Tasks

    Adam Bermingham,Alan Smeaton

    399-402

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  • Global Dynamics of Online Group Conversations

    Rushi Bhatt,Kishor Barman

    403-406

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  • The Good, the Bad, and the Angry: Analyzing Crowdsourced Impressions of Vloggers

    Joan-Isaac Biel,Daniel Gatica-Perez

    407-410

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  • What’s in Your Tweets? I Know Who You Supported in the UK 2010 General Election

    Antoine Boutet,Hyoungshick Kim,Eiko Yoneki

    411-414

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  • Where Online Friends Meet: Social Communities in Location-Based Networks

    Chloë Brown,Vincenzo Nicosia,Salvatore Scellato,Anastasios Noulas,Cecilia Mascolo

    415-418

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  • Visualizing Topic Models

    Allison Chaney,David Blei

    419-422

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  • Why You Are More Engaged: Factors Influencing Twitter Engagement in Occupy Wall Street

    Jilin Chen,Peter Pirolli

    423-426

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  • Impact and Diffusion of Sentiment in Political Communication – An Empirical Analysis of Political Weblogs

    Linh Dang-Xuan,Stefan Stieglitz

    427-430

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  • Identifying Microblogs for Targeted Contextual Advertising

    Kushal Dave,Vasudeva Varma

    431-434

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  • Happy, Nervous or Surprised? Classification of Human Affective States in Social Media

    Munmun De Choudhury,Michael Gamon,Scott Counts

    435-438

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  • Epidemic Intelligence for the Crowd, by the Crowd

    Ernesto Diaz-Aviles,Avaré Stewart,Edward Velasco,Kerstin Denecke,Wolfgang Nejdl

    439-442

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Demonstration Papers

  • Frankenplace: An Application for Similarity-Based Place Search

    Benjamin Adams,Grant McKenzie

    616-617

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  • Composing Traveling Paths from Location-Based Services

    Hsun-Ping Hsieh,Cheng-Te Li

    618-619

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  • Definition and Multi-Dimensional Comparative Analysis of Ad Hoc Communities in Twitter

    Sofus Macskassy

    620-621

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Frontmatter

  • Conference Committee

    John Breslin

    xii-xvii

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  • Preface

    John Breslin,James Shanahan,Nicole Ellison,Zeynep Tufekci

    xix-xx

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  • Invited Talks

    John Breslin

    xxi

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  • Workshops

    John Breslin

    xxv-xxvi

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  • Tutorials

    John Breslin

    xxii-xxiv

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  • ICWSM Sponsors

    John Breslin

    xviii

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