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Are we always in strife? A longitudinal study of the echo chamber effect in the Australian Twittersphere
Mehwish Nasim, Derek Weber, Tobin South +4
Contrary to expectations that the increased connectivity offered by the internet and particularly Online Social Networks (OSNs) would result in broad consensus on contentious issue…
#ArsonEmergency and Australia's "Black Summer": Polarisation and misinformation on social media
Derek Weber, Mehwish Nasim, Lucia Falzon +1
During the summer of 2019-20, while Australia suffered unprecedented bushfires across the country, false narratives regarding arson and limited backburning spread quickly on Twitte…
Bayesian inference of network structure from information cascades
Caitlin Gray, Lewis Mitchell, Matthew Roughan
Contagion processes are strongly linked to the network structures on which they propagate, and learning these structures is essential for understanding and intervention on complex…
How the Avengers assemble: Ecological modelling of effective cast sizes for movies
Matthew Roughan, Lewis Mitchell, Tobin South
The number of characters in a movie is an interesting feature. However, it is non-trivial to measure directly. Naive metrics such as the number of credited characters vary wildly.…
Semi-supervised graph labelling reveals increasing partisanship in the United States Congress
Max Glonek, Jonathan Tuke, Lewis Mitchell +1
Graph labelling is a key activity of network science, with broad practical applications, and close relations to other network science tasks, such as community detection and cluster…
Event detection in Twitter: A keyword volume approach
Ahmad Hany Hossny, Lewis Mitchell
Event detection using social media streams needs a set of informative features with strong signals that need minimal preprocessing and are highly associated with events of interest…