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Analyzing User Behavior across Social Sharing Environments
Pasquale De Meo, Emilio Ferrara, Fabian Abel +2
In this work we present an in-depth analysis of the user behaviors on different Social Sharing systems. We consider three popular platforms, Flickr, Delicious and StumbleUpon, and,…
Traveling Trends: Social Butterflies or Frequent Fliers?
Emilio Ferrara, Onur Varol, Filippo Menczer +1
Trending topics are the online conversations that grab collective attention on social media. They are continually changing and often reflect exogenous events that happen in the rea…
Clustering Memes in Social Media
Emilio Ferrara, Mohsen JafariAsbagh, Onur Varol +3
The increasing pervasiveness of social media creates new opportunities to study human social behavior, while challenging our capability to analyze their massive data streams. One o…
The Digital Evolution of Occupy Wall Street
Michael D. Conover, Emilio Ferrara, Filippo Menczer +1
We examine the temporal evolution of digital communication activity relating to the American anti-capitalist movement Occupy Wall Street. Using a high-volume sample from the microb…
The Geospatial Characteristics of a Social Movement Communication Network
Michael D. Conover, Clayton Davis, Emilio Ferrara +3
Social movements rely in large measure on networked communication technologies to organize and disseminate information relating to the movements' objectives. In this work we seek t…
Forensic Analysis of Phone Call Networks
Salvatore Catanese, Emilio Ferrara, Giacomo Fiumara
In the context of preventing and fighting crime, the analysis of mobile phone traffic, among actors of a criminal network, is helpful in order to reconstruct illegal activities on…