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Characterizing the Demographics Behind the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Alexandra Olteanu, Ingmar Weber, Daniel Gatica-Perez
The debates on minority issues are often dominated by or held among the concerned minority: gender equality debates have often failed to engage men, while those about race fail to…
Social Media Image Analysis for Public Health
Kiran Garimella, Abdulrahman Alfayad, Ingmar Weber
Several projects have shown the feasibility to use textual social media data to track public health concerns, such as temporal influenza patterns or geographical obesity patterns.…
Whom Should We Sense in "Social Sensing" -- Analyzing Which Users Work Best for Social Media Now-Casting
Jisun An, Ingmar Weber
Given the ever increasing amount of publicly available social media data, there is growing interest in using online data to study and quantify phenomena in the offline "real" world…
Persistent Sharing of Fitness App Status on Twitter
Kunwoo Park, Ingmar Weber, Meeyoung Cha +1
As the world becomes more digitized and interconnected, information that was once considered to be private such as one's health status is now being shared publicly. To understand t…
#FailedRevolutions: Using Twitter to Study the Antecedents of ISIS Support
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish, Ingmar Weber
Within a fairly short amount of time, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has managed to put large swaths of land in Syria and Iraq under their control. To many observers, t…
Building Bridges into the Unknown: Personalizing Connections to Little-known Countries
Yelena Mejova, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Ingmar Weber
How are you related to Malawi? Do recent events on the Comoros effect you in any subtle way? Who in your extended social network is in Croatia? We seldom ask ourselves these questi…