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Election Polls on Social Media: Prevalence, Biases, and Voter Fraud Beliefs
Stephen Scarano, Vijayalakshmi Vasudevan, Mattia Samory +3
Social media platforms allow users to create polls to gather public opinion on diverse topics. However, we know little about what such polls are used for and how reliable they are,…
Global News Synchrony and Diversity During the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Xi Chen, Scott A. Hale, David Jurgens +3
News coverage profoundly affects how countries and individuals behave in international relations. Yet, we have little empirical evidence of how news coverage varies across countrie…
Estimating Community Feedback Effect on Topic Choice in Social Media with Predictive Modeling
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Ryota Kobayashi, Ingmar Weber +1
Social media users post content on various topics. A defining feature of social media is that other users can provide feedback -- called community feedback -- to their content in t…
On the Efficiency of the Information Networks in Social Media
Mahmoudreza Babaei, Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz, Isabel Valera +2
Social media sites are information marketplaces, where users produce and consume a wide variety of information and ideas. In these sites, users typically choose their information s…
Distinguishing between Topical and Non-topical Information Diffusion Mechanisms in Social Media
Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz, Niloy Ganguly, Krishna P. Gummadi
A number of recent studies of information diffusion in social media, both empirical and theoretical, have been inspired by viral propagation models derived from epidemiology. These…
The Road to Popularity: The Dilution of Growing Audience on Twitter
Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz, Mahmoudreza Babaei, Juhi Kulshrestha +1
On social media platforms, like Twitter, users are often interested in gaining more influence and popularity by growing their set of followers, aka their audience. Several studies…
Distinguishing Topical and Social Groups Based on Common Identity and Bond Theory
Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz, Luca Maria Aiello, Víctor M. Eguíluz +1
Social groups play a crucial role in social media platforms because they form the basis for user participation and engagement. Groups are created explicitly by members of the commu…
Fast filtering and animation of large dynamic networks
Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz, Luca Maria Aiello, Filippo Menczer
Detecting and visualizing what are the most relevant changes in an evolving network is an open challenge in several domains. We present a fast algorithm that filters subsets of the…