Modeling information diffusion in social media: data-driven observations

Autor: Adriana Iamnitchi, Lawrence O. Hall, Sameera Horawalavithana, Frederick Mubang, Kin Wai Ng, John Skvoretz

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Big Data, Vol 6 (2023)

Accurately modeling information diffusion within and across social media platforms has many practical applications, such as estimating the size of the audience exposed to a particular narrative or testing intervention techniques for addressing misinf

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Drivers of Polarized Discussions on Twitter during Venezuela Political Crisis

Autor: Sameera Horawalavithana, Adriana Iamnitchi, Kin Wai Ng

Publikováno v: WebSci

Social media activity is driven by real-world events (natural disasters, political unrest, etc.) and by processes within the platform itself (viral content, posts by influentials, etc). Understanding how these different factors affect social media co

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3447535.3462496

Using Deep Learning for Temporal Forecasting of User Activity on Social Media: Challenges and Limitations

Autor: Adriana Iamnitchi, Kin Wai Ng, Anthony Hernandez

Publikováno v: WWW (Companion Volume)

The recent advances in neural network-based machine learning algorithms promise a revolution in prediction-based tasks in a variety of domains. Of these, forecasting user activity in social media is particularly relevant for problems such as modeling

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3366424.3382184

Strategic Information Operation in YouTube: The Case of the White Helmets

Autor: Nazim Choudhury, Adriana Iamnitchi, Kin Wai Ng

Publikováno v: Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling ISBN: 9783030612542
SBP-BRiMS

Strategic information operations (e.g. disinformation, political propaganda, and other forms of online manipulation) are critical concerns for researchers in social cyber security. Two strategies, spoofing and astroturfing, are often employed in disi

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61255-9_31

Vaccination trials on hold: malicious and low credibility content on Twitter during the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine development.

Autor: Horawalavithana S; CSE, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA., De Silva R; SCoRe Lab, Colombo, Sri Lanka., Weerasekara N; SCoRe Lab, Colombo, Sri Lanka., Kin Wai NG; CSE, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA., Nabeel M; Qatar Computing Research Institute, Ar Rayyān, Qatar., Abayaratna B; SCoRe Lab, Colombo, Sri Lanka., Elvitigala C; SCoRe Lab, Colombo, Sri Lanka., Wijesekera P; ICSI, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA., Iamnitchi A; Institute of Data Science, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Publikováno v: Computational and mathematical organization theory [Comput Math Organ Theory] 2022 Nov 28, pp. 1-22. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Nov 28.