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Social Informatics

8th International Conference, SocInfo 2016, Bellevue, WA, USA, November 11-14, 2016, Proceedings, Part I

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 10046)

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

Conference series link(s): SocInfo: International Conference on Social Informatics

Conference proceedings info: SocInfo 2016.

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Table of contents (33 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
  2. Networks, Communities, and Groups

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. How Well Do Doodle Polls Do?

      • Danya Alrawi, Barbara M. Anthony, Christine Chung
      Pages 3-23
    3. The Social Dynamics of Language Change in Online Networks

      • Rahul Goel, Sandeep Soni, Naman Goyal, John Paparrizos, Hanna Wallach, Fernando Diaz et al.
      Pages 41-57
    4. On URL Changes and Handovers in Social Media

      • Hossein Hamooni, Nikan Chavoshi, Abdullah Mueen
      Pages 58-74
    5. Comment-Profiler: Detecting Trends and Parasitic Behaviors in Online Comments

      • Tai-Ching Li, Abdullah Mueen, Michalis Faloutsos, Huy Hang
      Pages 75-91
    6. On Profiling Bots in Social Media

      • Richard J. Oentaryo, Arinto Murdopo, Philips K. Prasetyo, Ee-Peng Lim
      Pages 92-109
    7. A Diffusion Model for Maximizing Influence Spread in Large Networks

      • Tu-Thach Quach, Jeremy D. Wendt
      Pages 110-124
    8. Lightweight Interactions for Reciprocal Cooperation in a Social Network Game

      • Masanori Takano, Kazuya Wada, Ichiro Fukuda
      Pages 125-137
    9. Continuous Recipe Selection Model Based on Cooking History

      • Shuhei Yamamoto, Noriko Kando, Tetsuji Satoh
      Pages 138-151
  3. Politics, News, and Events

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
    2. Examining Community Policing on Twitter: Precinct Use and Community Response

      • Nina Cesare, Emma S. Spiro, Hedwig Lee, Tyler McCormick
      Pages 155-167
    3. The Dynamics of Group Risk Perception in the US After Paris Attacks

      • Wen-Ting Chung, Kai Wei, Yu-Ru Lin, Xidao Wen
      Pages 168-184
    4. Determining the Veracity of Rumours on Twitter

      • Georgios Giasemidis, Colin Singleton, Ioannis Agrafiotis, Jason R. C. Nurse, Alan Pilgrim, Chris Willis et al.
      Pages 185-205
    5. PicHunt: Social Media Image Retrieval for Improved Law Enforcement

      • Sonal Goel, Niharika Sachdeva, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, A. V. Subramanyam, Divam Gupta
      Pages 206-223
    6. TwitterNews+: A Framework for Real Time Event Detection from the Twitter Data Stream

      • Mahmud Hasan, Mehmet A. Orgun, Rolf Schwitter
      Pages 224-239
    7. Uncovering Topic Dynamics of Social Media and News: The Case of Ferguson

      • Lingzi Hong, Weiwei Yang, Philip Resnik, Vanessa Frias-Martinez
      Pages 240-256
    8. Identifying Partisan Slant in News Articles and Twitter During Political Crises

      • Dmytro Karamshuk, Tetyana Lokot, Oleksandr Pryymak, Nishanth Sastry
      Pages 257-272
    9. Predicting Poll Trends Using Twitter and Multivariate Time-Series Classification

      • Tom Mirowski, Shoumik Roychoudhury, Fang Zhou, Zoran Obradovic
      Pages 273-289

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About this book

The two-volume set LNCS 10046 and 10047 constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2016, held in Bellevue, WA, USA, in November 2016.
The 36 full papers and 39 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: networks, communities, and groups; politics, news, and events; markets, crowds, and consumers; and privacy, health, and well-being.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Emma Spiro

  • Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

    Yong-Yeol Ahn

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