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Transforming Digital Worlds

13th International Conference, iConference 2018, Sheffield, UK, March 25-28, 2018, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 10766)

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

Conference series link(s): iConference: International Conference on Information

Conference proceedings info: iConference 2018.

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Table of contents (82 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXXII
  2. Social Media

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Social Content Management: A Study on Issues and Challenges

      • Wan Azlin Zurita Wan Ahmad, Muriati Mukhtar, Yazrina Yahya
      Pages 3-9
    3. Measuring the Effect of Public Health Campaigns on Twitter: The Case of World Autism Awareness Day

      • Wasim Ahmed, Peter A. Bath, Laura Sbaffi, Gianluca Demartini
      Pages 10-16
    4. Automated Diffusion? Bots and Their Influence During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

      • Olga Boichak, Sam Jackson, Jeff Hemsley, Sikana Tanupabrungsun
      Pages 17-26
    5. #Depression: Findings from a Literature Review of 10 Years of Social Media and Depression Research

      • Julissa Murrieta, Christopher C. Frye, Linda Sun, Linh G. Ly, Courtney S. Cochancela, Elizabeth V. Eikey
      Pages 47-56
    6. Towards Understanding Cross-Cultural Crowd Sentiment Using Social Media

      • Yuanyuan Wang, Panote Siriaraya, Muhammad Syafiq Mohd Pozi, Yukiko Kawai, Adam Jatowt
      Pages 67-73
  3. Communication Studies and Online Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
    2. The Behavior and Network Position of Peer Production Founders

      • Jeremy Foote, Noshir Contractor
      Pages 99-106
    3. Enhancing Critical Infrastructure Resilience Through Information-Sharing: Recommendations for European Critical Infrastructure Operators

      • Paul Reilly, Elisa Serafinelli, Rebecca Stevenson, Laura Petersen, Laure Fallou
      Pages 120-125
    4. The Role of Stories in Three Non-12 Step Alcohol Online Support Groups

      • Sally Sanger, Peter A. Bath, Jo Bates
      Pages 126-131
    5. Ephemeral Communication and Communication Places

      • Lauren Thomson, Adam J. Lee, Rosta Farzan
      Pages 132-138

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About this book

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International  Conference on Transforming Digital Worlds, iConference 2018, held in Sheffield, UK, in March 2018.
The 42 full papers and 40 short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited talks in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 219 submissions. The papers address topics such as social media; communication studies and online communities; mobile information and cloud computing; data mining and data analytics; information retrieval; information behaviour and digital literacy; digital curation; and information education and libraries.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Gobinda Chowdhury, Julie McLeod

  • University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Val Gillet, Peter Willett

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