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Community Identity and User Engagement in a Multi-Community Landscape
Justine Zhang, William L. Hamilton, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil +2
A community's identity defines and shapes its internal dynamics. Our current understanding of this interplay is mostly limited to glimpses gathered from isolated studies of individ…
Tracing the Use of Practices through Networks of Collaboration
Rahmtin Rotabi, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jon Kleinberg
An active line of research has used on-line data to study the ways in which discrete units of information---including messages, photos, product recommendations, group invitations--…
Competition and Selection Among Conventions
Rahmtin Rotabi, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jon Kleinberg
In many domains, a latent competition among different conventions determines which one will come to dominate. One sees such effects in the success of community jargon, of competing…
Loyalty in Online Communities
William L. Hamilton, Justine Zhang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil +2
Loyalty is an essential component of multi-community engagement. When users have the choice to engage with a variety of different communities, they often become loyal to just one,…
Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions
Justin Cheng, Michael Bernstein, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil +1
In online communities, antisocial behavior such as trolling disrupts constructive discussion. While prior work suggests that trolling behavior is confined to a vocal and antisocial…
Winning Arguments: Interaction Dynamics and Persuasion Strategies in Good-faith Online Discussions
Chenhao Tan, Vlad Niculae, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil +1
Changing someone's opinion is arguably one of the most important challenges of social interaction. The underlying process proves difficult to study: it is hard to know how someone'…
Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities
Justin Cheng, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jure Leskovec
User contributions in the form of posts, comments, and votes are essential to the success of online communities. However, allowing user participation also invites undesirable behav…
How Community Feedback Shapes User Behavior
Justin Cheng, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jure Leskovec
Social media systems rely on user feedback and rating mechanisms for personalization, ranking, and content filtering. However, when users evaluate content contributed by fellow use…
Characterizing and curating conversation threads: Expansion, focus, volume, re-entry
Lars Backstrom, Jon Kleinberg, Lillian Lee +1
Discussion threads form a central part of the experience on many Web sites, including social networking sites such as Facebook and Google Plus and knowledge creation sites such as…
Echoes of power: Language effects and power differences in social interaction
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee, Bo Pang +1
Understanding social interaction within groups is key to analyzing online communities. Most current work focuses on structural properties: who talks to whom, and how such interacti…