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Twitter has a Binary Privacy Setting, are Users Aware of How It Works?
Dilara Keküllüoğlu, Kami Vaniea, Maria K. Wolters +1
Twitter accounts are public by default, but Twitter gives the option to create protected accounts, where only approved followers can see their tweets. The publicly visible informat…
From an Authentication Question to a Public Social Event: Characterizing Birthday Sharing on Twitter
Dilara Keküllüoğlu, Walid Magdy, Kami Vaniea
Date of birth (DOB) has historically been considered as private information and safe to use for authentication, but recent years have seen a shift towards wide public sharing. In t…
Holy Tweets: Exploring the Sharing of Quran on Twitter
Norah Abokhodair, Abdelrahim Elmadany, Walid Magdy
While social media offer users a platform for self-expression, identity exploration, and community management, among other functions, they also offer space for religious practice a…
Examining the Role of Mood Patterns in Predicting Self-Reported Depressive symptoms
Lucia Lushi Chen, Walid Magdy, Heather Whalley +1
Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Initial efforts to detect depression signals from social media posts have shown promising results. Given the high internal…
Stance Detection on Social Media: State of the Art and Trends
Abeer AlDayel, Walid Magdy
Stance detection on social media is an emerging opinion mining paradigm for various social and political applications in which sentiment analysis may be sub-optimal. There has been…
The Effect of Sociocultural Variables on Sarcasm Communication Online
Silviu Vlad Oprea, Walid Magdy
Online social networks (OSN) play an essential role for connecting people and allowing them to communicate online. OSN users share their thoughts, moments, and news with their netw…
Arabs and Atheism: Religious Discussions in the Arab Twittersphere
Youssef Al Hariri, Walid Magdy, Maria Wolters
Most previous research on online discussions of atheism has focused on atheism within a Christian context. In contrast, discussions about atheism in the Arab world and from Islamic…
Assessing Sentiment of the Expressed Stance on Social Media
Abeer Aldayel, Walid Magdy
Stance detection is the task of inferring viewpoint towards a given topic or entity either being supportive or opposing. One may express a viewpoint towards a topic by using positi…
Your Stance is Exposed! Analysing Possible Factors for Stance Detection on Social Media
Abeer Aldayel, Walid Magdy
To what extent user's stance towards a given topic could be inferred? Most of the studies on stance detection have focused on analysing user's posts on a given topic to predict the…
Trump vs. Hillary: What went Viral during the 2016 US Presidential Election
Kareem Darwish, Walid Magdy, Tahar Zanouda
In this paper, we present quantitative and qualitative analysis of the top retweeted tweets (viral tweets) pertaining to the US presidential elections from September 1, 2016 to Ele…
Fake it till you make it: Fishing for Catfishes
Walid Magdy, Yehia Elkhatib, Gareth Tyson +2
Many adult content websites incorporate social networking features. Although these are popular, they raise significant challenges, including the potential for users to "catfish", i…
UK General Election 2017: a Twitter Analysis
Laura Cram, Clare Llewellyn, Robin Hill +1
This work is produced by researchers at the Neuropolitics Research Lab, School of Social and Political Science and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. In this…
Trump vs. Hillary Analyzing Viral Tweets during US Presidential Elections 2016
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish
In this paper, we provide a quantitative and qualitative analyses of the viral tweets related to the US presidential election. In our study, we focus on analyzing the most retweete…
Attitudes towards Refugees in Light of the Paris Attacks
Kareem Darwish, Walid Magdy
The Paris attacks prompted a massive response on social media including Twitter. This paper explores the immediate response of English speakers on Twitter towards Middle Eastern re…
Quantifying Public Response towards Islam on Twitter after Paris Attacks
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish, Norah Abokhodair
The Paris terrorist attacks occurred on November 13, 2015 prompted a massive response on social media including Twitter, with millions of posted tweets in the first few hours after…
#FailedRevolutions: Using Twitter to Study the Antecedents of ISIS Support
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish, Ingmar Weber
Within a fairly short amount of time, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has managed to put large swaths of land in Syria and Iraq under their control. To many observers, t…
Content and Network Dynamics Behind Egyptian Political Polarization on Twitter
Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish +1
There is little doubt about whether social networks play a role in modern protests. This agreement has triggered an entire research avenue, in which social structure and content an…