Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
General Chair: Marti Hearst (University of California, Berkeley School of Information)
Program Cochairs: William Cohen (Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Computer Science) Samuel Gosling (University of Texas, Department of Psychology)
Washington, D.C., May 23 – 26, 2010. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California.
This proceedings is also available in book and CD format.
Contents
Tutorials / xix
Workshop and Panel / xix
Full Papers
The Social Dynamics of Economic Activity in a Virtual World
Eytan Bakshy, Matthew P. Simmons, David A. Huffaker, Chun-Yuen Cheng, Lada A. Adamic
Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy
Meeyoung Cha, Hamed Haddadi, Fabricio Benevenuto, Krishna P. Gummadi
ePluribus: Ethnicity on Social Networks
Jonathan Chang, Itamar Rosenn, Lars Backstrom, Cameron Marlow
Sequential Influence Models in Social Networks
Dan Cosley, Daniel Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg, Xiangyang Lan, Siddharth Suri
How Does the Data Sampling Strategy Impact the Discovery of Information Diffusion in Social Media?
Munmun De Choudhury, Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Kasim Selcuk Candan, Lexing Xie, Aisling Kelliher
Microblogging Inside and Outside the Workplace
Kate Ehrlich, N. Sadat Shami
Your Brain on Facebook: Neuropsychological Associations with Social Versus other Media
Kristie Fisher, Scott Counts
Widespread Worry and the Stock Market
Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios
Toward Social Causality: An Analysis of Interpersonal Relationships in Online Blogs and Forums
Roxana Girju
Responses to Remixing on a Social Media Sharing Website
Benjamin Mako Hill, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Kristina Olson
Study of Static Classification of Social Spam Profiles in MySpace
Danesh Irani, Steve Webb, Calton Pu
Information Contagion: An Empirical Study of the Spread of News on Digg and Twitter Social Networks
Kristina Lerman, Rumi Ghosh
Governance in Social Media: A Case Study of the Wikipedia Promotion Process
Jure Leskovec, Daniel Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg
StepGreen.org: Increasing Energy Saving Behaviors via Social Networks
Jennifer Mankoff, Susan R. Fussell, Tawanna Dillahunt, Rachel Glaves, Catherine Grevet, Michael Johnson, Deanna Matthews, H. Scott Matthews, Robert McGuire, Robert Thompson, Aubrey Shick, Leslie Setlock
Star Quality: Aggregating Reviews to Rank Products and Merchants
Mary McGlohon, Natalie Glance, Zach Reiter
From Tweets to Polls: Linking Text Sentiment to Public Opinion Time Series
Brendan O'Connor, Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Bryan R. Routledge, Noah A. Smith
Characterizing Microblogs with Topic Models
Daniel Ramage, Susan Dumais, Dan Liebling
The Directed Closure Process in Hybrid Social-Information Networks, with an Analysis of Link Formation on Twitter
Daniel Mauricio Romero, Jon Kleinberg
Photo Tagging Over Time: A Longitudinal Study of the Role of Attention, Network Density, and Motivations
Paul Russo, Oded Nov
To Be a Star Is Not Only Metaphoric: From Popularity to Social Linkage
Alina Mihaela Stoica, Thomas Couronne, Jean - Samuel Beuscart
ICWSM — A Great Catchy Name: Semi-Supervised Recognition of Sarcastic Sentences in Online Product Reviews
Oren Tsur, Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport
Who Acquires Friends Through Social Media and Why? "Rich Get Richer" Versus "Seek and Ye Shall Find"
Zeynep Tufekci
Predicting Elections with Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal about Political Sentiment
Andranik Tumasjan, Timm O. Sprenger, Philipp G. Sandner, Isabell M. Welpe
Activity Lifespan: An Analysis of User Survival Patterns in Online Knowledge Sharing Communities
Jiang Yang, Xiao Wei, Mark S Ackerman, Lada A. Adamic
Tweeting from the Town Square: Measuring Geographic Local Networks
Sarita Yardi, Danah Boyd
Posters
"How Incredibly Awesome!" — Click Here to Read More
Hyung-il Ahn, Werner Geyer, Casey Dugan, David R. Millen
Faceplant: Impression (Mis)management in Facebook Status Updates
Vladimir Barash, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Ellen Isaacs, Victoria Bellotti
Voices of Vlogging
Joan-Isaac Biel, Daniel Gatica-Perez
Decomposing Discussion Forums and Boards Using User Roles
Jeffrey Chan, Conor Hayes, Elizabeth M Daly
Empirical Analysis of User Participation in Online Communities: the Case of Wikipedia
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Alberto Vancheri
Local Networks, Local Topics: Structural and Semantic Proximity in Blogspace
Jean-Philippe Cointet, Camille Roth
Social Intellisense: A Task-Embedded Interface to Folksonomies
Scott Counts, Kristie Fisher, Aaron Hoff
A Ranking Based Model for Automatic Image Annotation in a Social Network
Ludovic Denoyer, Patrick Gallinari
Mobilizing Lurkers with a Targeted Task
Rosta Farzan, Joan M. DiMicco, Beth Brownholtz
The Perceived Credibility of Online Encyclopedias Among Children
Andrew J. Flanagin, Miriam J. Metzger
Socio-Legal Analysis of Criminal Sentences: A Preliminary Study
Giuseppe Giura, Giovanni Giuffrida, Carlo Pennisi, Calogero Zarba
Social Dynamics of Digg
Tad Hogg, Kristina Lerman
The Wisdom of Bookies? Sentiment Analysis Versus. the NFL Point Spread
Yancheng Hong, Steven Skiena
Temporal Correlation between Social Tags and Emerging Long-Term Trend Detection
Ming-Hung Hsu, Yu-Hui Chang, Hsin-Hsi Chen
Effective Question Recommendation Based on Multiple Features for Question Answering Communities
Yutaka Kabutoya, Tomoharu Iwata, Hisako Shiohara, Ko Fujimura
Ranking Social News Articles Based on Voter Credibility
Kanghak Kim, Geonhyeok Go, Hyun-woo Park, Sangki Han
Generating Domain-Specific Clues Using News Corpus for Sentiment Classification
Youngho Kim, Yoonjung Choi, Sung-Hyon Myaeng
Coping With Noise in a Real-World Weblog Crawler and Retrieval System
James Lanagan, Paul Ferguson, Neil O'Hare, Alan F Smeaton
Devils, Angels, and Robots: Tempting Destructive Users in Social Media
Kyumin Lee, Brian David Eoff, James Caverlee
Using Twitter During an Academic Conference: The #iswc2009 Use-Case
Julie Letierce, Alexandre Passant, John G. Breslin, Stefan Decker
User Interest and Interaction Structure in Online Forums
Di Liu, Daniel Percival, Stephen E. Fienberg
Monetary Value of Customer Networks in Mobile Social Networking Services
Naohiro Matsumura, Hikaru Yamamoto
A Comparison of Information Seeking Using Search Engines and Social Networks
Meredith Ringel Morris, Jaime Teevan, Katrina Panovich
A Qualitative Examination of Topical Tweet and Retweet Practices
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Hemant Purohit, Amit Sheth
Discovering Serendipitous Information from Wikipedia by Using Its Network Structure
Yohei Noda, Yoji Kiyota, Hiroshi Nakagawa
An Overview of SMOB 2: Open, Semantic and Distributed Microblogging
Alexandre Passant, Uldis Bojars, John G. Breslin, Tuukka Hastrup, Milan Stankovic, Philippe Laublet
Mining User Home Location and Gender from Flickr Tags
Adrian Popescu, Gregory Grefenstette
Classifier Calibration for Multi-Domain Sentiment Classification
Stephan Raaijmakers, Wessel Kraaij
Co-Participation Networks Using Comment Information
Huzefa Rangwala, Salman Jamali
A Comparison of Generated Wikipedia Profiles Using Social Labeling and Automatic Keyword Extraction
Terrell Russell, Bongwon Suh, Ed H. Chi
How to Become Famous in the Microblog World
Takeshi Sakaki, Yutaka Matsuo
Modeling Group Dynamics in Virtual Worlds
Fahad Shah, Gita Reese Sukthankar, Chris Usher
Conversational Shadows: Describing Live Media Events Using Short Messages
David A. Shamma, Lyndon Kennedy, Elizabeth F. Churchill
A Second Chance to Make a First Impression: Factors Affecting the Longevity of Online Dating Relationships
Lindsay Shaw Taylor, Andrew T. Fiore, G. A. Mendelsohn, Coye Cheshire
Why do Users Tag? Detecting Users' Motivation for Tagging in Social Tagging Systems
Markus Strohmaier, Christian Körner, Roman Kern
Longevity in Second Life
ChunYuen Teng, Lada Adamic
What Makes a Blog a Blog? Exploring User Conceptualizations of an Old "New" Online Medium
Jeffrey William Treem, Kristin Yates Thomas
Comparing Information Diffusion Structure in Weblogs and Microblogs
Jiang Yang, Scott Counts
Predicting the Speed, Scale, and Range of Information Diffusion in Twitter
Jiang Yang, Scott Counts
What's Worthy of Comment? Content and Comment Volume in Political Blogs
Tae Yano, Noah A. Smith
Connecting the Dots: When Personal Information Becomes Personally Identifying on the Internet
Dave Yates, Mark Shute, Dana Rotman
Modeling Personality Influences on YouTube Usage
T. E. Dominic Yeo
User Acceptance of Micro-Blogging in the Enterprise
Jun Zhang, Yan Qu, Derek Hansen
Trading Strategies to Exploit Blog and News Sentiment
Wenbin Zhang, Steven Skiena
Finding Gold in Intranet Data: A Comparison of Mined and Surveyed Social Networks
Chen Zhao, Baozhong Liu
Demonstration Papers
TweetMotif: Exploratory Search and Topic Summarization for Twitter
Brendan O'Connor, Michel Krieger, David Ahn
A Web-Based System from Data Collection and Community Building
Ista Zahn
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