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Sponsored messaging about climate change on Facebook: Actors, content, frames
Iain Weaver, Ned Westwood, Travis Coan +2
Online communication about climate change is central to public discourse around this contested issue. Facebook is a dominant social media platform known to be a major source of inf…
The structure of segregation in co-authorship networks and its impact on scientific production
Ana Maria Jaramillo, Hywel T. P. Williams, Nicola Perra +1
Co-authorship networks, where nodes represent authors and edges represent co-authorship relations, are key to understanding the production and diffusion of knowledge in academia. S…
Complex networks for event detection in heterogeneous high volume news streams
Iraklis Moutidis, Hywel T. P. Williams
Detecting important events in high volume news streams is an important task for a variety of purposes.The volume and rate of online news increases the need for automated event dete…
The Human Geography of Twitter
Rudy Arthur, Hywel T. P. Williams
Given the centrality of regions in social movements, politics and public administration we aim to quantitatively study inter- and intra-regional communication for the first time. T…
Gaian bottlenecks and planetary habitability maintained by evolving model biospheres: The ExoGaia model
Arwen E. Nicholson, David M. Wilkinson, Hywel T. P. Williams +1
The search for habitable exoplanets inspires the question - how do habitable planets form? Planet habitability models traditionally focus on abiotic processes and neglect a biotic…
Scaling laws in geo-located Twitter data
Rudy Arthur, Hywel Williams
We observe and report on a systematic relationship between population density and Twitter use. Number of tweets, number of users and population per unit area are related by power l…
Social Sensing of Floods in the UK
Rudy Arthur, Chris A. Boulton, Humphrey Shotton +1
"Social sensing" is a form of crowd-sourcing that involves systematic analysis of digital communications to detect real-world events. Here we consider the use of social sensing for…