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How to Succeed in Crowdfunding: a Long-Term Study in Kickstarter
Thanh Tran, Madhavi R. Dontham, Jinwook Chung +1
Crowdfunding platforms have become important sites where people can create projects to seek funds toward turning their ideas into products, and back someone else's projects. As new…
Understanding Citizen Reactions and Ebola-Related Information Propagation on Social Media
Thanh Tran, Kyumin Lee
In severe outbreaks such as Ebola, bird flu and SARS, people share news, and their thoughts and responses regarding the outbreaks on social media. Understanding how people perceive…
The Dark Side of Micro-Task Marketplaces: Characterizing Fiverr and Automatically Detecting Crowdturfing
Kyumin Lee, Steve Webb, Hancheng Ge
As human computation on crowdsourcing systems has become popular and powerful for performing tasks, malicious users have started misusing these systems by posting malicious tasks,…
Who Will Retweet This? Automatically Identifying and Engaging Strangers on Twitter to Spread Information
Kyumin Lee, Jalal Mahmud, Jilin Chen +2
There has been much effort on studying how social media sites, such as Twitter, help propagate information in different situations, including spreading alerts and SOS messages in a…