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Investigating and Comparing Discussion Topics in Multilingual Underground Forums
Mariella Mischinger, Vahid Ghafouri, Sergio Pastrana +1
Underground forums play a crucial role in the criminal ecosystem, facilitating the exchange of knowledge and the trade of illegal tools and services. By analyzing the skills, motiv…
Cross-Partisan Interactions on Twitter
Yusuf Mücahit Çetinkaya, Vahid Ghafouri, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil +2
Many social media studies argue that social media creates echo chambers where some users only interact with peers of the same political orientation. However, recent studies suggest…
A Holistic Indicator of Polarization to Measure Online Sexism
Vahid Ghafouri, Jose Such, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
The online trend of the manosphere and feminist discourse on social networks requires a holistic measure of the level of sexism in an online community. This indicator is important…
Lady and the Tramp Nextdoor: Online Manifestations of Economic Inequalities in the Nextdoor Social Network
Waleed Iqbal, Vahid Ghafouri, Gareth Tyson +2
From health to education, income impacts a huge range of life choices. Earlier research has leveraged data from online social networks to study precisely this impact. In this paper…