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User Migration across Multiple Social Media Platforms
Ujun Jeong, Ayushi Nirmal, Kritshekhar Jha +3
After Twitter's ownership change and policy shifts, many users reconsidered their go-to social media outlets and platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads became attractive alt…
Quantifying the Echo Chamber Effect: An Embedding Distance-based Approach
Faisal Alatawi, Paras Sheth, Huan Liu
The rise of social media platforms has facilitated the formation of echo chambers, which are online spaces where users predominantly encounter viewpoints that reinforce their exist…
Estimating Topic Exposure for Under-Represented Users on Social Media
Mansooreh Karami, Ahmadreza Mosallanezhad, Paras Sheth +1
Online Social Networks (OSNs) facilitate access to a variety of data allowing researchers to analyze users' behavior and develop user behavioral analysis models. These models rely…
"This is Fake! Shared it by Mistake": Assessing the Intent of Fake News Spreaders
Xinyi Zhou, Kai Shu, Vir V. Phoha +2
Individuals can be misled by fake news and spread it unintentionally without knowing it is false. This phenomenon has been frequently observed but has not been investigated. Our ai…
Applications of Social Media in Hydroinformatics: A Survey
Yufeng Yu, Yuelong Zhu, Dingsheng Wan +3
Floods of research and practical applications employ social media data for a wide range of public applications, including environmental monitoring, water resource managing, disaste…
The Role of User Profile for Fake News Detection
Kai Shu, Xinyi Zhou, Suhang Wang +2
Consuming news from social media is becoming increasingly popular. Social media appeals to users due to its fast dissemination of information, low cost, and easy access. However, s…
Hierarchical Propagation Networks for Fake News Detection: Investigation and Exploitation
Kai Shu, Deepak Mahudeswaran, Suhang Wang +1
Consuming news from social media is becoming increasingly popular. However, social media also enables the widespread of fake news. Because of its detrimental effects brought by soc…
Graph Neural Networks for User Identity Linkage
Wen Zhang, Kai Shu, Huan Liu +1
The increasing popularity and diversity of social media sites has encouraged more and more people to participate in multiple online social networks to enjoy their services. Each us…
Signed Link Prediction with Sparse Data: The Role of Personality Information
Ghazaleh Beigi, Suhas Ranganath, Huan Liu
Predicting signed links in social networks often faces the problem of signed link data sparsity, i.e., only a small percentage of signed links are given. The problem is exacerbated…
FakeNewsNet: A Data Repository with News Content, Social Context and Spatialtemporal Information for Studying Fake News on Social Media
Kai Shu, Deepak Mahudeswaran, Suhang Wang +2
Social media has become a popular means for people to consume news. Meanwhile, it also enables the wide dissemination of fake news, i.e., news with intentionally false information,…
Multi-Level Network Embedding with Boosted Low-Rank Matrix Approximation
Jundong Li, Liang Wu, Huan Liu
As opposed to manual feature engineering which is tedious and difficult to scale, network representation learning has attracted a surge of research interests as it automates the pr…
Studying Fake News via Network Analysis: Detection and Mitigation
Kai Shu, H. Russell Bernard, Huan Liu
Social media for news consumption is becoming increasingly popular due to its easy access, fast dissemination, and low cost. However, social media also enable the wide propagation…
Twitter for Sparking a Movement, Reddit for Sharing the Moment: #metoo through the Lens of Social Media
Lydia Manikonda, Ghazaleh Beigi, Huan Liu +1
Social media platforms are revolutionizing the way users communicate by increasing the exposure to highly stigmatized issues in the society. Sexual abuse is one such issue that rec…
Similar but Different: Exploiting Users' Congruity for Recommendation Systems
Ghazaleh Beigi, Huan Liu
The pervasive use of social media provides massive data about individuals' online social activities and their social relations. The building block of most existing recommendation s…
Intelligent Disaster Response via Social Media Analysis - A Survey
Tahora H. Nazer, Guoliang Xue, Yusheng Ji +1
The success of a disaster relief and response process is largely dependent on timely and accurate information regarding the status of the disaster, the surrounding environment, and…
Heroes and Zeroes: Predicting the Impact of New Video Games on Twitch.tv
Isaac Jones, Huan Liu
Video games and the playing thereof have been a fixture of American culture since their introduction in the arcades of the 1980s. However, it was not until the recent proliferation…
Attributed Network Embedding for Learning in a Dynamic Environment
Jundong Li, Harsh Dani, Xia Hu +3
Network embedding leverages the node proximity manifested to learn a low-dimensional node vector representation for each node in the network. The learned embeddings could advance v…
Understanding and Predicting Delay in Reciprocal Relations
Jundong Li, Jiliang Tang, Yilin Wang +3
Reciprocity in directed networks points to user's willingness to return favors in building mutual interactions. High reciprocity has been widely observed in many directed social me…
Signed Link Analysis in Social Media Networks
Ghazaleh Beigi, Jiliang Tang, Huan Liu
Numerous real-world relations can be represented by signed networks with positive links (e.g., trust) and negative links (e.g., distrust). Link analysis plays a crucial role in und…
A Survey of Signed Network Mining in Social Media
Jiliang Tang, Yi Chang, Charu Aggarwal +1
Many real-world relations can be represented by signed networks with positive and negative links, as a result of which signed network analysis has attracted increasing attention fr…
Leveraging Social Foci for Information Seeking in Social Media
Suhas Ranganath, Jiliang Tang, Xia Hu +2
The rise of social media provides a great opportunity for people to reach out to their social connections to satisfy their information needs. However, generic social media platform…
Negative Link Prediction in Social Media
Jiliang Tang, Shiyu Chang, Charu Aggarwal +1
Signed network analysis has attracted increasing attention in recent years. This is in part because research on signed network analysis suggests that negative links have added valu…
From Tweets to Events: Exploring a Scalable Solution for Twitter Streams
Shamanth Kumar, Huan Liu, Sameep Mehta +1
The unprecedented use of social media through smartphones and other web-enabled mobile devices has enabled the rapid adoption of platforms like Twitter. Event detection has found m…
Identifying Users with Opposing Opinions in Twitter Debates
Ashwin Rajadesingan, Huan Liu
In recent times, social media sites such as Twitter have been extensively used for debating politics and public policies. These debates span millions of tweets and numerous topics…