Full Papers
Untangling Emoji Popularity Through Semantic Embeddings | |
Wei Ai, Xuan Lu, Xuanzhe Liu, Ning Wang, Gang Huang, Qiaozhu Mei |
To Thread or Not to Thread: The Impact of Conversation Threading on Online Discussion | |
Pablo Aragón, Vicenç Gómez, Andreaks Kaltenbrunner |
Who Makes Trends? Understanding Demographic Biases in Crowdsourced Recommendations | |
Abhijnan Chakraborty, Johnnatan Messias, Fabricio Benevenuto, Saptarshi Ghosh, Niloy Ganguly, Krishna P Gummadi |
The Language of Social Support in Social Media and Its Effect on Suicidal Ideation Risk | |
Munmun De Choudhury, Emre Kiciman |
Selfie-Presentation in Everyday Life: A Large-Scale Characterization of Selfie Contexts on Instagram | |
Julia Deeb-Swihart, Christopher Polack, Eric Gilbert, Irfan Essa |
#NotOkay: Understanding Gender-Based Violence in Social Media | |
Mai ElSherief, Elizabeth Belding, Dana Nguyen |
“Be Careful; Things Can Be Worse than They Appear”: Understanding Biased Algorithms and Users’ Behavior Around Them in Rating Platforms | |
Motahhare Eslami, Kristen Vaccaro, Karrie Karahalios, Kevin Hamilton |
Changes in Social Media Affect, Disclosure, and Sociality for a Sample of Transgender Americans in 2016’s Political Climate | |
Oliver L. Haimson, Gillian R. Hayes |
Predicting Popular and Viral Image Cascades in Pinterest | |
Jinyoung Han, Daejin Choi, Jungseock Joo, Chen-Nee Chuah |
Kek, Cucks, and God Emperor Trump: A Measurement Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web | |
Gabriel Emile Hine, Jeremiah Onaolapo, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Riginos Samaras, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn |
Spice Up Your Chat: The Intentions and Sentiment Effects of Using Emojis | |
Tianran Hu, Han Guo, Hao Sun, Thuy-vy Thi Nguyen, Jiebo Luo |
The Evolution and Consequences of Peer Producing Wikipedia's Rules | |
Brian Keegan, Casey Fiesler |
Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Reverted Wikipedia Edits | |
Johannes Kiesel, Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen, Benno Stein |
Better When It Was Smaller? Community Content and Behavior After Massive Growth | |
Zhiyuan Lin, Niloufar Salehi, Bowen Yao, Yiqi Chen, Michael S. Bernstein |
The Substantial Interdependence of Wikipedia and Google: A Case Study on the Relationship Between Peer Production Communities and Information Technologies | |
Connor McMahon, Isaac Johnson, Brent Hecht |
Understanding Emoji Ambiguity in Context: The Role of Text in Emoji-Related Miscommunication | |
Hannah Miller, Daniel Kluver, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Loren Terveen, Brent Hecht |
Gendered Conversation in a Social Game-Streaming Platform | |
Supun Chathuranga Nakandala, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Norman Makoto Su, Yong-Yeol Ahn |
The Rich Get Richer? Limited Learning in Charitable Giving on donorschoose.org | |
Chankyung Pak, Rick Wash |
Online Popularity Under Promotion: Viral Potential, Forecasting, and the Economics of Time | |
Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Lexing Xie Xie |
How Editorial, Temporal and Social Biases Affect Online Food Popularity and Appreciation | |
Markus Rokicki, Eelco Herder, Christoph Trattner |
Tracing the Use of Practices Through Networks of Collaboration | |
Rahmtin Rotabi, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jon Kleinberg |
Analysing Timelines of National Histories Across Wikipedia Editions: A Comparative Computational Approach | |
Anna Samoilenko, Florian Lemmerich, Katrin Weller, Maria Zens, Markus Strohmaier |
How User Condition Affects Community Dynamics in a Forum on Autism | |
Mattia Samory, Cinzia Pizzi, Enoch Peserico |
Examining the Alternative Media Ecosystem Through the Production of Alternative Narratives of Mass Shooting Events on Twitter | |
Kate Starbird |
Echo Chambers in Investment Discussion Boards | |
Shiliang Tang, Qingyun Liu, Megan McQueen, Scott Counts, Apurv Jain, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao |
State of the Geotags: Motivations and Recent Changes | |
Dan Tasse, Zichen Liu, Alex Sciuto, Jason I. Hong |
Which Size Matters? Effects of Crowd Size on Solution Quality in Big Data Q&A Communities | |
Yla Tausczik, Ping Wang, Joohee Choi |
To Help or Hinder: Real-Time Chat in Citizen Science | |
Ramine Tinati, Elena Simperl, Markus Luczak-Roesch |
Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization | |
Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara, Clayton A. Davis, Filippo Menczer, Alessandro Flammini |
Identifying Effective Signals to Predict Deleted and Suspended Accounts on Twitter Across Languages | |
Svitlana Volkova, Eric Bell |
Why Do Men Get More Attention? Exploring Factors Behind Success in An Online Design Community | |
Johannes Wachs, Aniko Hannak, András Vörös, Bálint Daróczy |
Armed Conflicts in Online News: A Multilingual Study | |
Robert West, Jürgen Pfeffer |
Adaptive Spammer Detection with Sparse Group Modeling | |
Liang Wu, Xia Hu, Fred Morstatter, Huan Liu |
When Does More Money Work? Examining the Role of Perceived Fairness in Pay on the Performance Quality of Crowdworkers | |
Teng Ye, Sangseok You, Lionel P. Robert Jr. |
The Power of the Patient Voice: Learning Indicators of Treatment Adherence From An Online Breast Cancer Forum | |
Zhijun Yin, Bradley Malin, Jeremy Warner, Pei-Yun Hsueh, Ching-Hua Chen |
Cultural Diffusion and Trends in Facebook Photographs | |
Quanzeng You, Darío García-García, Mahohar Paluri, Jiebo Luo, Jungseock Joo |
Characterizing Online Discussion Using Coarse Discourse Sequences | |
Amy X. Zhang, Bryan Culbertson, Praveen Paritosh |
Shocking the Crowd: The Effect of Censorship Shocks on Chinese Wikipedia | |
Ark Fangzhou Zhang, Danielle Livneh, Ceren Budak, Lionel Robert, Daniel Romero |
Community Identity and User Engagement in a Multi-Community Landscape | |
Justine Zhang, William L. Hamilton, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Dan Jurafsky, Jure Leskovec |
Cold Hard E-Cash: Friends and Vendors in the Venmo Digital Payments System | |
Xinyi Zhang, Shiliang Tang, Yun Zhao, Gang Wang, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao |
Wearing Many (Social) Hats: How Different Are Your Different Social Network Personae? | |
Changtao Zhong, Hau-wen Chang, Dmytro Karamshuk, Dongwon Lee, Nishanth Sastry |
Dataset Papers
TokTrack: A Complete Token Provenance and Change Tracking Dataset for the English Wikipedia | |
Fabian Flöck, Kenan Erdogan, Maribel Acosta |
Fashion Conversation Data on Instagram | |
Yu-i Ha, Sejeong Kwon, Meeyoung Cha, Jungseock Joo |
Data Sets: Word Embeddings Learned from Tweets and General Data | |
Quanzhi Li, Sameena Shah, Xiaomo Liu, Armineh Nourbakhsh |
EmojiNet: An Open Service and API for Emoji Sense Discovery | |
Sanjaya Wijeratne, Lakshika Balasuriya, Amit Sheth, Derek Doran |
Poster Papers
Recognizing Pathogenic Empathy in Social Media | |
Muhammad M. Abdul-Mageed, Anneke Buffone, Hao Peng, Johannes Eichstaedt, Lyle Ungar |
On Quitting: Performance and Practice in Online Game Play | |
Tushar Agarwal, Keith Burghardt, Kristina Lerman |
QT2S: A System for Monitoring Road Traffic Via Fine Grounding of Tweets | |
Noora Al Emadi, Sofiane Abbar, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Francisco Guzman, Fabrizio Sebastiani |
Are There Gender Differences in Professional Self-Promotion? An Empirical Case Study of LinkedIn Profiles Among Recent MBA Graduates | |
Kristen M. Altenburger, Rajlakshmi De, Kaylyn Frazier, Nikolai Avteniev, Jim Hamilton |
What Gets Media Attention and How Media Attention Evolves Over Time: Large-Scale Empirical Evidence from 196 Countries | |
Jisun An, Haewon Kwak |
Ranking with Social Cues: Integrating Online Review Scores and Popularity Information | |
Pantelis Pipergias Analytis, Alexia Delfino, Juliane Kämmer, Mehdi Moussaid, Thorsten Joachims |
25 Tweets to Know You: A New Model to Predict Personality with Social Media | |
Pierre-Hadrien Arnoux, Anbang Xu, Neil Boyette, Jalal Mahmud, Rama Akkiraju, Vibha Sinha |
Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Evaluating Success Determinants for Online Q&A Communities | |
Erik Aumayr, Conor Hayes |
Identifying Leading Indicators of Product Recalls from Online Reviews Using Positive Unlabeled Learning and Domain Adaptation | |
Shreesh Kumara Bhat, Aron Culotta |
Is Slacktivism Underrated? Measuring the Value of Slacktivists for Online Social Movements | |
Lia Bozarth, Ceren Budak |
Exploiting Contextual Information for Fine-Grained Tweet Geolocation | |
Wen-Haw Chong, Ee-Peng Lim |
Nasty, Brutish, and Short: What Makes Election News Popular on Twitter? | |
Sophie Chou, Deb Roy |
A Motif-Based Approach for Identifying Controversy | |
Mauro Coletto, Kiran Garimella, Aristides Gionis, Claudio Lucchese |
'Just the Facts:' Exploring the Relationship Between Emotional Language and Member Satisfaction in Enterprise Online Communities | |
Ryan James Compton, Jilin Chen, Eben Haber, Hernan Badenes, Steve Whittaker |
Suitable for All Ages: Using Reviews to Determine Appropriateness of Products | |
Elizabeth M. Daly, Oznur Alkan, Michael Muller |
How Fast Will You Get a Response? Predicting Interval Time for Reciprocal Link Creation | |
Vachik S. Dave, Mohammad Al Hasan, Chandan K. Reddy |
Automated Hate Speech Detection and the Problem of Offensive Language | |
Thomas Davidson, Dana Warmsley, Michael Macy, Ingmar Weber |
A Gendered Analysis of Leadership in Enterprise Social Networks | |
Giorgia Di Tommaso, Giovanni Stilo, Paola Velardi |
Dynamics of Content Quality in Collaborative Knowledge Production | |
Emilio Ferrara, Nazanin Alipoufard, Keith Burghardt, Chiranth Gopal, Kristina Lerman |
The Ebb and Flow of Controversial Debates on Social Media | |
Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, Michael Mathioudakis |
A Long-Term Analysis of Polarization on Twitter | |
Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber |
Spam Users Identification in Wikipedia Via Editing Behavior | |
Thomas Green, Francesca Spezzano |
Antagonism Also Flows Through Retweets: The Impact of Out-of-Context Quotes in Opinion Polarization Analysis | |
Pedro Calais Guerra, Roberto Nalon, Renato Assunção, Wagner Meira Jr. |
Loyalty in Online Communities | |
William L. Hamilton, Justine Zhang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Dan Jurafsky, Jure Leskovec |
"Voters of the Year": 19 Voters Who Were Unintentional Election Poll Sensors on Twitter | |
William Hobbs, Lisa Friedland, Kenneth Joseph, Oren Tsur, Stefan Wojcik, David Lazer |
A World of Difference: Divergent Word Interpretations Among People | |
Tianran Hu, Ruihua Song, Maya Abtahian, Philip Ding, Xing Xie, Jiebo Luo |
A Longitudinal Study of Topic Classification on Twitter | |
Zahra Iman, Scott Sanner, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Lexing Xie |
Modeling of Political Discourse Framing on Twitter | |
Kristen Johnson, Di Jin, Dan Goldwasser |
Behavioral Analysis of Review Fraud: Linking Malicious Crowdsourcing to Amazon and Beyond | |
Parisa Kaghazgaran, James Caverlee, Majid Alfifi |
How to Manipulate Social Media: Analyzing Political Astroturfing Using Ground Truth Data from South Korea | |
Franziska B. Keller, David Schoch, Sebastian Stier, JungHwan Yang |
US Presidential Election: What Engaged People on Facebook | |
Milad Kharratzadeh, Deniz Ustebay |
Face-to-BMI: Using Computer Vision to Infer Body Mass Index on Social Media | |
Enes Kocabey, Mustafa Camurcu, Ferda Ofli, Yusuf Aytar, Javier Marin, Antonio Torralba, Ingmar Weber |
From Camera to Deathbed: Understanding Dangerous Selfies on Social Media | |
Hemank Lamba, Varun Bharadhwaj, Mayank Vachher, Divyansh Agarwal, Megha Arora, Niharika Sachdeva, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru |
Controlling for Unobserved Confounds in Classification Using Correlational Constraints | |
Virgile Landeiro, Aron Culotta |
Scalable News Slant Measurement Using Twitter | |
Huyen Thi Thanh Le, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan |
Understanding How People Attend to and Engage with Foreign Language Posts in Multilingual Newsfeeds | |
Hajin Lim, Susan R. Fussell |
Fostering User Engagement: Rhetorical Devices for Applause Generation Learnt from TED Talks | |
Zhe Liu, Anbang Xu, Mengdi Zhang, Jalal Mahmud, Vibha Sinha |
Distinguishing the Wood from the Trees: Contrasting Collection Methods to Understand Bias in a Longitudinal Brexit Twitter Dataset | |
Clare Llewellyn, Laura Cram |
Sparse Overlap Cross-Platform Recommendation Via Adaptive Similarity Structure Regularization | |
Hanqing Lu, Chaochao Chen, Qinyue Jiang |
A Computational Approach to Perceived Trustworthiness of Airbnb Host Profiles | |
Xiao Ma, Trishala Neeraj, Mor Naaman |
Detecting the Hate Code on Social Media | |
Rijul Magu, Kshitij Joshi, Jiebo Luo |
Language Use Matters: Analysis of the Linguistic Structure of Question Texts Can Characterize Answerability in Quora | |
Suman Kalyan Maity, Aman Kharb, Animesh Mukherjee |
The Role of Optimal Distinctiveness and Homophily in Online Dating | |
Danaja Maldeniya, Arun Varghese, Toby Stuart, Daniel Romero |
Two-Phase Influence Maximization in Social Networks with Seed Nodes and Referral Incentives | |
Sneha Mondal, Swapnil Dhamal, Y. Narahari |
Predicting Movie Genre Preferences from Personality and Values of Social Media Users | |
Md. Saddam Hossain Mukta, Euna Mehnaz Khan, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Jalal Mahmud |
Automatically Identifying Good Conversations Online (Yes, They Do Exist!) | |
Courtney Napoles, Aasish Pappu, Joel Tetreault |
Robust Classification of Crisis-Related Data on Social Networks Using Convolutional Neural Networks | |
Dat Tien Nguyen, Kamela Ali Al Mannai, Shafiq Joty, Hassan Sajjad, Muhammad Imran, Prasenjit Mitra |
Mood Congruence or Mood Consistency? Examining Aggregated Twitter Sentiment Towards Ads in 2016 Super Bowl | |
Yuheng Hu, Tingting Nian, Cheng Chen |
Fertility and Its Meaning: Evidence from Search Behavior | |
Jussi Ojala, Emilio Zagheni, Francesco Billari, Ingmar Weber |
Inverse Dynamical Inheritance in Stack Exchange Taxonomies | |
César A. Ojeda, Kostadin Cvejoski, Rafet Sifa, Christian Bauckhage |
Changes in Social Media Behavior During Life Periods of Uncertainty | |
Xinru Page, Marco Marabelli |
DeepCity: A Feature Learning Framework for Mining Location Check-Ins | |
Jun Pang, Yang Zhang |
Headlines Matter: Using Headlines to Predict the Popularity of News Articles on Twitter and Facebook | |
Alicja Piotrkowicz, Vania Dimitrova, Jahna Otterbacher, Katja Markert |
Querying Documents Annotated by Interconnected Entities | |
Shouq Sadah, Moloud Shahbazi, Vagelis Hristidis |
What Comments Did I Get? How Post and Comment Characteristics Predict Interaction Satisfaction on Facebook | |
Shruti Sannon, Yoon Hyung Choi, Jessie G. Taft, Natalya N. Bazarova |
Towards Measuring Fine-Grained Diversity Using Social Media Photographs | |
Vivek Kumar Singh, Saket Hegde, Akanksha Atrey |
Measuring, Predicting and Visualizing Short-Term Change in Word Representation and Usage in VKontakte Social Network | |
Ian Stewart, Dustin Arendt, Eric Bell, Svitlana Volkova |
Characteristics of On-Time and Late Reward Delivery Projects | |
Thanh D. Tran, Kyumin Lee |
On the Interpretability of Thresholded Social Networks | |
Oren Tsur, David Lazer |
Mapping Twitter Conversation Landscapes | |
Soroush Vosoughi, Prashanth Vijayaraghavan, Ann Yuan, Deb Roy |
Designing a Social Support System for College Adjustment and Social Support | |
Donghee Yvette Wohn, Mousa Ahmadi, Leiping Gong, Indraneel Kulkarni, Atisha Poojari |
Early Identification of Personalized Trending Topics in Microblogging | |
Liang Wu, Xia Hu, Huan Liu |
Detecting Camouflaged Content Polluters | |
Liang Wu, Xia Hu, Fred Morstatter, Huan Liu |
A First Look at User Switching Behaviors Over Multiple Video Content Providers | |
Huan Yan, Tzu-Heng Lin, Gang Wang, Yong Li, Haitao Zheng, Depeng Jin, Ben Zhao |
Self-Disclosure and Channel Difference in Online Health Support Groups | |
Diyi Yang, Zheng Yao, Robert Kraut |
Should We Be Confident in Peer Effects Estimated From Social Network Crawls? | |
Jiasen Yang, Bruno Ribeiro, Jennifer Neville |
Twitter911: A Cautionary Tale | |
Anis Zaman, Nabil Hossain, Henry Kautz |
Event Organization 101: Understanding Latent Factors of Event Popularity | |
Shuo Zhang, Qin Lv |
Detecting Socio-Economic Impact of Cultural Investment Through Geo-Social Network Analysis | |
Xiao Zhou, Desislava Hristova, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascolo |
Demo Papers
Visualizing Health Awareness in the Middle East | |
Matheus Lima Diniz Araujo, Yelena Mejova, Michael Aupetit, Ingmar Weber |
Programming Languages in GitHub: A Visualization in Hyperbolic Plane | |
Dorota Celińska, Eryk Kopczyński |
CitizenHelper: A Streaming Analytics System to Mine Citizen and Web Data for Humanitarian Organizations | |
Prakruthi Karuna, Mohammad Rana, Hemant Purohit |
Junet: A Julia Package For Network Research | |
Igor Zakhlebin |
W2: Observational Studies through Social Media
Estimating the Effect Of Exercising On Users’ Online Behavior | |
Seyed Amin Mirlohi Falavarjani, Hawre Hosseini, Zeinab Noorian, Ebrahim Bagheri |
W7: News and Public Opinion
Data-Driven Approach to Measuring the Level of Press Freedom Using Media Attention Diversity from Unfiltered News | |
Jisun An, Haewon Kwak |
News Media Coverage of Refugees in 2016: A GDELT Case Study | |
Emina Boudemagh, Izabela Moise |
The Impact of Crowds On News Engagement: A Reddit Case Study | |
Benjamin D. Horne, Sibel Adali |
This Just In: Fake News Packs A Lot In Title, Uses Simpler, Repetitive Content in Text Body, More Similar To Satire Than Real News | |
Benjamin D Horne, Sibel Adali |
The Impact of News Values and Linguistic Style on the Popularity of Headlines On Twitter and Facebook | |
Alicja Piotrkowicz, Vania Dimitrova, Jahna Otterbacher, Katja Markert |
Tactics and Tallies: A Study of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign Using Twitter 'Likes' | |
Yu Wang, Xiyang Zhang, Jiebo Luo |