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Analyzing Behavioral Changes of Twitter Users After Exposure to Misinformation
Yichen Wang, Richard Han, Tamara Lehman +2
Social media platforms have been exploited to disseminate misinformation in recent years. The widespread online misinformation has been shown to affect users' beliefs and is connec…
Analyzing Twitter Users' Behavior Before and After Contact by the Internet Research Agency
Upasana Dutta, Rhett Hanscom, Jason Shuo Zhang +4
Social media platforms have been exploited to conduct election interference in recent years. In particular, the Russian-backed Internet Research Agency (IRA) has been identified as…
GEVR: An Event Venue Recommendation System for Groups of Mobile Users
Jason Shuo Zhang, Mike Gartrell, Richard Han +2
In this paper, we present GEVR, the first Group Event Venue Recommendation system that incorporates mobility via individual location traces and context information into a "social-b…
Understanding Group Event Scheduling via the OutWithFriendz Mobile Application
Shuo Zhang, Khaled Alanezi, Mike Gartrell +3
The wide adoption of smartphones and mobile applications has brought significant changes to not only how individuals behave in the real world, but also how groups of users interact…
Investigating Factors Influencing the Latency of Cyberbullying Detection
Rahat Ibn Rafiq, Homa Hosseinmardi, Richard Han +2
Cyberbullying in online social networks has become a critical problem, especially among teenagers who are social networks' prolific users. As a result, researchers have focused on…
Detection of Cyberbullying Incidents on the Instagram Social Network
Homa Hosseinmardi, Sabrina Arredondo Mattson, Rahat Ibn Rafiq +3
Cyberbullying is a growing problem affecting more than half of all American teens. The main goal of this paper is to investigate fundamentally new approaches to understand and auto…
A Comparison of Common Users across Instagram and Ask.fm to Better Understand Cyberbullying
Homa Hosseinmardi, Rahat Ibn Rafiq, Shaosong Li +4
This paper examines users who are common to two popular online social networks, Instagram and Ask.fm, that are often used for cyberbullying. An analysis of the negativity and posit…
Towards Understanding Cyberbullying Behavior in a Semi-Anonymous Social Network
Homa Hosseinmardi, Amir Ghasemianlangroodi, Richard Han +2
Cyberbullying has emerged as an important and growing social problem, wherein people use online social networks and mobile phones to bully victims with offensive text, images, audi…
Results from a Practical Deployment of the MyZone Decentralized P2P Social Network
Alireza Mahdian, Richard Han, Qin Lv +1
This paper presents MyZone, a private online social network for relatively small, closely-knit communities. MyZone has three important distinguishing features. First, users keep th…
An Empirical Study of Spam and Prevention Mechanisms in Online Video Chat Services
Xinyu Xing, Junho Ahn, Wenke Lee +2
Recently, online video chat services are becoming increasingly popular. While experiencing tremendous growth, online video chat services have also become yet another spamming targe…
MyZone: A Next-Generation Online Social Network
Alireza Mahdian, John Black, Richard Han +1
This technical report considers the design of a social network that would address the shortcomings of the current ones, and identifies user privacy, security, and service availabil…
SafeVchat: Detecting Obscene Content and Misbehaving Users in Online Video Chat Services
Xinyu Xing, Yu-Li Liang, Hanqiang Cheng +6
Online video chat services such as Chatroulette, Omegle, and vChatter that randomly match pairs of users in video chat sessions are fast becoming very popular, with over a million…
Intrusions into Privacy in Video Chat Environments: Attacks and Countermeasures
Xinyu Xing, Jianxun Dang, Richard Han +2
Video chat systems such as Chatroulette have become increasingly popular as a way to meet and converse one-on-one via video and audio with other users online in an open and interac…