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20202022
most citedA General Method to Find Highly Coordinating Communities in Social Media through Inferred Interaction Links

72 citations · 104 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.SI2022

Are we always in strife? A longitudinal study of the echo chamber effect in the Australian Twittersphere

Mehwish Nasim, Derek Weber, Tobin South +4

Contrary to expectations that the increased connectivity offered by the internet and particularly Online Social Networks (OSNs) would result in broad consensus on contentious issue…

cs.SI2022★ 12 cited

Promoting and countering misinformation during Australia's 2019-2020 bushfires: A case study of polarisation

Derek Weber, Lucia Falzon, Lewis Mitchell +1

During Australia's unprecedented bushfires in 2019-2020, misinformation blaming arson resurfaced on Twitter using #ArsonEmergency. The extent to which bots were responsible for dis…

cs.SI2021★ 6 cited

Temporal Nuances of Coordination Network Semantics

Derek Weber, Lucia Falzon

Current network-based methods for detecting coordinated inauthentic behaviour on social media focus primarily on inferring links between accounts based on common "behavioural trace…

cs.SI2021★ 14 cited

Exploring the effect of streamed social media data variations on social network analysis

Derek Weber, Mehwish Nasim, Lewis Mitchell +1

To study the effects of Online Social Network (OSN) activity on real-world offline events, researchers need access to OSN data, the reliability of which has particular implications…

cs.SI2021★ 72 cited

A General Method to Find Highly Coordinating Communities in Social Media through Inferred Interaction Links

Derek Weber, Frank Neumann

Political misinformation, astroturfing and organised trolling are online malicious behaviours with significant real-world effects. Many previous approaches examining these phenomen…

cs.SI2020

A method to evaluate the reliability of social media data for social network analysis

Derek Weber, Mehwish Nasim, Lewis Mitchell +1

To study the effects of Online Social Network (OSN) activity on real-world offline events, researchers need access to OSN data, the reliability of which has particular implications…