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Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration
Haris Bin Zia, Jiahui He, Aravindh Raman +3
The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk has spurred controversy and uncertainty among Twitter users. The move raised as many praises as concerns, particularly regarding Musk's view…
Analysing Meso and Macro conversation structures in an online suicide support forum
Sagar Joglekar, Sumithra Velupillai, Rina Dutta +1
Platforms like Reddit and Twitter offer internet users an opportunity to talk about diverse issues, including those pertaining to physical and mental health. Some of these forums a…
Wikipedia and Westminster: Quality and Dynamics of Wikipedia Pages about UK Politicians
Pushkal Agarwal, Miriam Redi, Nishanth Sastry +2
Wikipedia is a major source of information providing a large variety of content online, trusted by readers from around the world. Readers go to Wikipedia to get reliable informatio…
Characterising User Content on a Multi-lingual Social Network
Pushkal Agarwal, Kiran Garimella, Sagar Joglekar +2
Social media has been on the vanguard of political information diffusion in the 21st century. Most studies that look into disinformation, political influence and fake-news focus on…
Who has the last word? Understanding How to Sample Online Discussions
Gioia Boschi, Anthony P. Young, Sagar Joglekar +2
In online debates individual arguments support or attack each other, leading to some subset of arguments being considered more relevant than others. However, in large discussions r…
Tweeting MPs: Digital Engagement between Citizens and Members of Parliament in the UK
Pushkal Agarwal, Nishanth Sastry, Edward Wood
Disengagement and disenchantment with the Parliamentary process is an important concern in today's Western democracies. Members of Parliament (MPs) in the UK are therefore seeking…
Illuminating an Ecosystem of Partisan Websites
Shweta Bhatt, Sagar Joglekar, Shehar Bano +1
This paper aims to shed light on alternative news media ecosystems that are believed to have influenced opinions and beliefs by false and/or biased news reporting during the 2016 U…
Facebook (A)Live? Are live social broadcasts really broadcasts?
Aravindh Raman, Gareth Tyson, Nishanth Sastry
The era of live-broadcast is back but with two major changes. First, unlike traditional TV broadcasts, content is now streamed over the Internet enabling it to reach a wider audien…
Systems Applications of Social Networks
Changtao Zhong, Nishanth Sastry
The aim of this article is to provide an understanding of social networks as a useful addition to the standard tool-box of techniques used by system designers. To this end, we give…
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…
Wearing Many (Social) Hats: How Different are Your Different Social Network Personae?
Changtao Zhong, Hau-wen Chan, Dmytro Karamshuk +2
This paper investigates when users create profiles in different social networks, whether they are redundant expressions of the same persona, or they are adapted to each platform. U…
Identifying Partisan Slant in News Articles and Twitter during Political Crises
Dmytro Karamshuk, Tetyana Lokot, Oleksandr Pryymak +1
In this paper, we are interested in understanding the interrelationships between mainstream and social media in forming public opinion during mass crises, specifically in regards t…
Social Bootstrapping: How Pinterest and Last.fm Social Communities Benefit by Borrowing Links from Facebook
Changtao Zhong, Mostafa Salehi, Sunil Shah +3
How does one develop a new online community that is highly engaging to each user and promotes social interaction? A number of websites offer friend-finding features that help users…