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Social Informatics

6th International Conference, SocInfo 2014, Barcelona, Spain, November 11-13, 2014, Proceedings

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  1. Luca Maria Aiello

    1. Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain

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  2. Daniel McFarland

    1. Stanford Graduate School of Education, Stanford, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8851)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

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Table of contents (39 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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    1. On Joint Modeling of Topical Communities and Personal Interest in Microblogs

      • Tuan-Anh Hoang, Ee-Peng Lim
      Pages 1-16

    2. Bridging Social Network Analysis and Judgment Aggregation

      • Silvano Colombo Tosatto, Marc van Zee
      Pages 17-33

    3. Friend Grouping Algorithms for Online Social Networks: Preference, Bias, and Implications

      • Motahhare Eslami, Amirhossein Aleyasen, Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam, Karrie Karahalios
      Pages 34-49

    4. The Influence of Indirect Ties on Social Network Dynamics

      • Xiang Zuo, Jeremy Blackburn, Nicolas Kourtellis, John Skvoretz, Adriana Iamnitchi
      Pages 50-65

    5. Predicting Online Community Churners Using Gaussian Sequences

      • Matthew Rowe
      Pages 66-79

    6. GitHub Projects. Quality Analysis of Open-Source Software

      • Oskar Jarczyk, Błażej Gruszka, Szymon Jaroszewicz, Leszek Bukowski, Adam Wierzbicki
      Pages 80-94

    7. Improving on Popularity as a Proxy for Generality When Building Tag Hierarchies from Folksonomies

      • Fahad Almoqhim, David E. Millard, Nigel Shadbolt
      Pages 95-111

    8. Evolution of Cooperation in SNS-norms Game on Complex Networks and Real Social Networks

      • Yuki Hirahara, Fujio Toriumi, Toshiharu Sugawara
      Pages 112-120

  3. Interpersonal Links and Gender Biases

    1. International Gender Differences and Gaps in Online Social Networks

      • Gabriel Magno, Ingmar Weber
      Pages 121-138

    2. Gender Patterns in a Large Online Social Network

      • Yana Volkovich, David Laniado, Karolin E. Kappler, Andreas Kaltenbrunner
      Pages 139-150

    3. User Profiling via Affinity-Aware Friendship Network

      • Zhuohua Chen, Feida Zhu, Guangming Guo, Hongyan Liu
      Pages 151-165

    4. Disenchanting the World: The Impact of Technology on Relationships

      • Paolo Parigi, Bogdan State
      Pages 166-182

    5. Look into My Eyes & See, What You Mean to Me. Social Presence as Source for Social Capital

      • Katja Neureiter, Christiane Moser, Manfred Tscheligi
      Pages 183-198

    6. From “I Love You Babe” to “Leave Me Alone” - Romantic Relationship Breakups on Twitter

      • Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber, Sonya Dal Cin
      Pages 199-215

    7. The Social Name-Letter Effect on Online Social Networks

      • Farshad Kooti, Gabriel Magno, Ingmar Weber
      Pages 216-227

  4. News, Credibility, and Opinion Formation

    1. TweetCred: Real-Time Credibility Assessment of Content on Twitter

      • Aditi Gupta, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Carlos Castillo, Patrick Meier
      Pages 228-243

    2. Can Diversity Improve Credibility of User Review Data?

      • Yoshiyuki Shoji, Makoto P. Kato, Katsumi Tanaka
      Pages 244-258

    3. Social Determinants of Content Selection in the Age of (Mis)Information

      • Alessandro Bessi, Guido Caldarelli, Michela Del Vicario, Antonio Scala, Walter Quattrociocchi
      Pages 259-268

    4. How Hidden Aspects Can Improve Recommendation?

      • Youssef Meguebli, Mouna Kacimi, Bich-liên Doan, Fabrice Popineau
      Pages 269-278
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2014, held in Barcelona, Spain, in November 2014. The 28 full papers and 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as network, communities, and crowds; interpersonal links and gender biases; news, credibility, and opinion formation; science and technologies; organizations, society and social good.

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  • Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain

    Luca Maria Aiello

  • Stanford Graduate School of Education, Stanford, USA

    Daniel McFarland

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