Social Informatics

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

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.

• agent-based simulation
• collective intelligence
• communities
• computational sociolotgy
• cooperation
• data mining
• human computation
• information processing
• misinformation
• natural language processing
• networks
• online news
• online opinions
• organizations
• social informatics
• social networking
• society
• user modeling

• Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain

  Luca Maria Aiello

• Stanford Graduate School of Education, Stanford, USA

  Daniel McFarland

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