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You are a Bot! -- Studying the Development of Bot Accusations on Twitter
Dennis Assenmacher, Leon Fröhling, Claudia Wagner
The characterization and detection of bots with their presumed ability to manipulate society on social media platforms have been subject to many research endeavors over the last de…
Link recommendations: Their impact on network structure and minorities
Antonio Ferrara, Lisette Espín-Noboa, Fariba Karimi +1
Network-based people recommendation algorithms are widely employed on the Web to suggest new connections in social media or professional platforms. While such recommendations bring…
Inequality and Inequity in Network-based Ranking and Recommendation Algorithms
Lisette Espín-Noboa, Claudia Wagner, Markus Strohmaier +1
Though algorithms promise many benefits including efficiency, objectivity and accuracy, they may also introduce or amplify biases. Here we study two well-known algorithms, namely P…
What increases (social) media attention: Research impact, author prominence or title attractiveness?
Olga Zagovora, Katrin Weller, Milan Janosov +2
Do only major scientific breakthroughs hit the news and social media, or does a 'catchy' title help to attract public attention? How strong is the connection between the importance…
Towards Quantifying Sampling Bias in Network Inference
Lisette Espín-Noboa, Claudia Wagner, Fariba Karimi +1
Relational inference leverages relationships between entities and links in a network to infer information about the network from a small sample. This method is often used when glob…
Sampling from Social Networks with Attributes
Claudia Wagner, Philipp Singer, Fariba Karimi +2
Sampling from large networks represents a fundamental challenge for social network research. In this paper, we explore the sensitivity of different sampling techniques (node sampli…