Accepted Talks



School segregation in the digital space
Ivan Smirnov

Bounded confidence in extreme opinion evolution : an online experiment
Samuel Martin, Sylvie Huet, Pascal Gend, Mohammed Amine Ait Oumajoud, Guillaume Deffuant, Armelle Nugier and Serge Guimond

Do Twitter Data reflect the Link between economic and cultural Modernization?
Jochen Hirschle and Tuuli-Marja Kleiner

Modeling Echo Chambers on Social Media
Kazutoshi Sasahara, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Alessandro Flammini and Filippo Menczer

New Techniques for Privacy-preserving Record Linkage of Large-scale Social Science Data Sets
Rainer Schnell and Christian Borgs

Ideological Creation of Market in Socialist China: Change in Economic Rhetoric in the People’s Daily, 1946-2003
Shilin Jia and Linzhuo Li

The Network Dynamics of Social Influence in the Wisdom of Crowds
Joshua Becker, Devon Brackbill and Damon Centola

Why We Read Wikipedia
Florian Lemmerich, Philipp Singer, Robert West, Leila Zia, Ellery Wulczyn, Markus Strohmaier and Jure Leskovec

Can Network Theory-based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption?
Lori Beaman, Ariel Benyishay, Jeremy Magruder and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Moral Foundations of Political Discourse: Comparative Analysis of the Speech Records of the US Congress and the Japanese Diet
Hiroki Takikawa and Takuto Sakamoto

The Effect of Missing Translations on Analyses of European Legislative Speech
Laura Hollink, Astrid van Aggelen and Jacco van Ossenbruggen

Sampling from Social Networks with Attributes
Claudia Wagner, Philipp Singer, Fariba Karimi, Jürgen Pfeffer and Markus Strohmaier

The fall of the empire: The Americanization of English
Bruno Gonçalves, Lucia Loureiro-Porto, Jose J. Ramasco and David Sanchez

An Analysis of Sponsored Content on Twitter
Jaimie Park, Mahmoudreza Babaei, Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Krishna Gummadi and Sue Moon

Psychological and Personality Profiles of Political Extremists
Meysam Alizadeh, Ingmar Weber, Claudio Cioffi, Santo Fortunato and Michael Macy

Who Cares About the Overhead? Measuring the Efficiency in the Charity Marketplace
Ceren Budak and Justin Rao

The Spread of Fake News on Twitter by Voters During the 2016 U.S. General Election
Kenneth Joseph, Nir Grinberg, Lisa Friedland, William Hobbs, Carolina Mattsson, Stefan McCabe, Lucas Da Silva Almeida and David Lazer

Statistical Scaling Meets Classic Content Analysis: Using Bayesian IRT-Modelling to Infer Latent Variables from Hand-Coded Texts
Thomas Daeubler and Kenneth Benoit

The Memory Remains:\\ Understanding Collective Memory in the Digital Age
Ruth Garcia Gavilanes, Anders Mollgaard, Milena Tsvetkova and Taha Yasseri

The Wisdom of Dynamic Networks: Selective Social Learning and the Adaptive Wisdom of Crowds
Alejandro Noriega Campero, Abdullah Almaatouq, Peter Krafft, Abdulrahman Alotaibi, Mehdi Moussaid and Alex Pentland

Perceiving and Acting: How Preferences and Perceptions of Cultural Norms Relate to Normative Compliance
Richard Lu, Jennifer Chatman, Sameer Srivastava and Amir Goldberg

Using named entities for computer-automated verbal deception detection
Bennett Kleinberg, Maximilian Mozes, Arnoud Arntz and Bruno Verschuere

Inducing Egocentric Networks with Privacy Settings: Evidence from Integrated Social Media and Representative Survey Data
Yang-Chih Fu and Ming-Yi Chang

Exploring Emotions in Online Movie Reviews
Osnat Mokryn, Nadim Bader, Joel Lanir and Yael Albo

The Hostility Bonus: How Negativity Dominates American Political Communication
Solomon Messing, Patrick Van Kessel and Adam Hughes

Understanding social influence and inactivity patterns in the Twitter society
David Garcia, Pavlin Mavrodiev, Daniele Casati and Frank Schweitzer

Promoting Educational Attainment at Scale with Psychological Interventions
Rene Kizilcec

Methods for Acquiring, Analyzing, and Visualizing Complex Street Networks
Geoff Boeing

The Polarized Network of Skill Complementarity
Morgan Frank, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, Lijun Sun, Bedoor Alshebli, Cesar Hidalgo and Iyad Rahwan

Transparency and Re-Use Patterns of Open Digital Crowd Contests: Linking Empirical and Computational Approaches
Sabine Brunswicker and Michael Prietula

Identifying Sink and Conduit Offshore Financial Centers in the Global Corporate Ownership Network
Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Jan Fichtner, Eelke Heemskerk and Frank Takes

Insurance Fraud Detection: A Network Modeling and Behavioral Analytics Approach
Eray Alpan, Gokhan Gokturk, Selim Balcisoy and Burcin Bozkaya

Political Ideology and Affective Attitudes Towards Mobility Innovation: Comparing Survey Responses and Twitter Data
Nikolas Zöller, Ingo Wolf and Tobias Schröder

Visibility of minorities in social networks
Fariba Karimi, Mathieu Genois, Claudia Wagner, Philipp Singer and Markus Strohmaier

Estimating the possibility of trajectory-based reidentification for fusion of large-scale urban mobility datasets
Dániel Kondor, Behrooz Hashemian, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye and Carlo Ratti

Sharing Strategies: Optimal networks for team collaboration and problem solving
Pj Lamberson, John Lang, Noshir Contractor, Leslie Dechurch and Brian Uzzi

Statistical properties of fluctuations of time series representing appearances of words in nationwide blog data and their applications
Hayafumi Watanabe, Yukie Sano, Hideki Takayasu and Misako Takayasu

Gender Outcome Disparities in an Online Community of Designers
Johannes Wachs, Aniko Hannak, Balint Daroczy and Andras Voros

Modelling discourse patterns in small groups of competing and co-operating members
Ismo Koponen and Maija Nousiainen

Social Bots in Japan’s 2014 General Election: Preliminary Results from a Corpus-Linguistic and Qualitative Study of Computational Propaganda on Twitter
Stefan Evert, Philipp Heinrich and Fabian Schaefer

Large fluctuation in social tagging ecosystems
Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Mizuki Oka and Takashi Ikegami

Using Agent Based Modeling to Interpret Underlying Factors of Underrepresentation of Minorities in Hollywood Films
Carmen Iasiello

From Migration Corridors to Clusters: The Value of Google+ Data for Migration Studies
Johnnatan Messias, Fabricio Benevenuto, Ingmar Weber and Emilio Zagheni

Linguistic neighbourhoods: Explaining cultural borders on Wikipedia through multilingual co-editing activity
Anna Samoilenko, Fariba Karimi, Daniel Edler, Jérôme Kunegis and Markus Strohmaier

Dynamic Networks of News Consumption: Online Traffic during the 2016 Brexit Campaign in the UK
Lorien Jasny, Susan Banducci, Travis Coan, Iulia Cioroianu, Iain Weaver and Hywell Williams

Evolving affiliations amongst UK politicians
Iain Weaver, Hywel Williams, Travis Coan, Iulia Cioroianu and Susan Banducci

Quantifying patterns of research interest evolution
Tao Jia, Dashun Wang and Boleslaw Szymanski

LabVanced: A Unified JavaScript Framework for Online Studies
Holger Finger, Caspar Goeke, Dorena Diekamp, Kai Standvoß and Peter König

Moral Foundations in Online Conversations
Rishemjit Kaur and Kazutoshi Sasahara

A Topic-Sentiment Evolution Model to Analyze Chinese National Image from Online News
Yuemei Xu, Jiayi Zhou, Xiaoya Zhang and Chenyu Dong

Inter-modular connectivity creates structural instability in complex contagion
Jana Huisman and Olivia Woolley

Modeling collective attention on promoted content in Wikipedia
Marijn ten Thij, David Laniado, Andreas Kaltenbrunner and Yana Volkovich

Detecting Political Bots on Russian Twitter
Denis Stukal, Sergey Sanovich and Joshua A. Tucker

Celebrity Suicides and the Werther Effect. An Analysis of 34 OECD Countries using Wikipedia’s Celebrity Suicide Data
Mark Lutter and Karlijn Roex

Effects of temporal correlations in social multiplex networks
Michele Starnini, Andrea Baronchelli and Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

What Difference Does Difference Make? A Language-Based Model of Cultural Heterogeneity and Firm Performance
Matthew Corritore, Amir Goldberg and Sameer Srivastava

Market uncertainty and the network structure of transaction sequences in the EU interbank money market
Federica Bianchi

Platform effects on social media: Topic salience in a representative survey, Facebook and Twitter during an election campaign
Sebastian Stier, Arnim Bleier, Haiko Lietz and Markus Strohmaier

When to target hubs? Strategic Diffusion in Complex Networks
Aamena Alshamsi, Flavio Pinheiro and César Hidalgo

Understanding Regional Economy by Decomposing Urban Labor Systems
Lijun Sun, Morgan Frank, Hyejin Youn and Iyad Rahwan

Order without law: Reputation promotes cooperation in a cryptomarket for illegal drugs
Wojtek Przepiorka, Lukas Norbutas and Rense Corten

How North Korea Views China: Applying Sentiment Analysis to Korean Central News Agency Reports
Weiqi Zhang and Dmitry Zinoviev

Trust Networks: Topology, Dynamics and Measurements
Santa Agreste, Pasquale De Meo, Emilio Ferrara, Sebastiano Piccolo and Alessandro Provetti

Face-to-BMI: Using Computer Vision to Study Body Weight in Social Media Profile Pictures
Enes Kocabey, Mustafa Camurcu, Ingmar Weber, Ferda Ofli, Yusuf Aytar, Javier Marin and Antonio Torralba

Mapping evolving uncertainty in a complex engineering design project with email mining
Pedro Parraguez, Melanie Kreye, Phil Cash and Anja Maier

One Size Fits All: Context Collapse, Self-Presentation Strategies and Language Styles on Facebook
Teresa Gil Lopez, Cuihua Shen, Grace Benefield, Nicholas Palomares, Michal Kosinski and David Stillwell

Gender Prediction in Gender Segregated Societies Using Cell Phone Data
Riyadh Alnasser, Faisal Aleissa and Michele Catasta

Network Characterization of Cartels in Public Auction Markets
Johannes Wachs and János Kertész

Cultural Dynamics at Spotify
Marc Keuschnigg, Martin Arvidsson and Peter Hedström

Personal Bests as Reference Points
Ashton Anderson and Etan Green

How many of your friends have access to the internet? Estimating internet adoption around the world from a sample of Facebook users
Dennis Feehan and Curtiss Cobb

Even Good Bots Fight
Milena Tsvetkova, Ruth Garcia Gavilanes, Luciano Floridi and Taha Yasseri

Ultrasound Technology and ‘Missing Women’ in India: Analyses and Now-casts Based on Google Searches
Ridhi Kashyap, Francesco Billari, Nicolo Cavalli, Eric Qian and Ingmar Weber

Using Facebook Ads Audiences for Global Lifestyle Disease Surveillance
Matheus Araújo, Yelena Mejova, Ingmar Weber and Fabricio Benevenuto

The Effects of Conversation Threading on Online Discussion Networks
Pablo Aragón, Andreas Kaltenbrunner and Vicenç Gómez

Efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo Estimation of Exponential Random Graph Models
Maksym Byshkin, Alex Stivala, Mira Antonietta, Garry Robins and Alessandro Lomi

Explaining protest intensity: The effect of roles and communities in a global cooperation network
Anna-Lena Hönig

Quantifying Attention to Electoral Integrity of Foreign States with Text Analysis
Ashrakat Elshehawy, Nikolay Marinov and Federico Nanni

Reputation and Success in Art
Samuel Fraiberger, Roberta Sinatra, Christoph Riedl and Laszlo Barabasi

Stochastic popularity of social-media items
Eduardo Altmann

Assessing Human Error Against a Benchmark of Perfection
Ashton Anderson, Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan

Fame and Obsolescence: Disentangling growth and ageing dynamics of patent citations
Kyle Higham, Michele Governale, Adam Jaffe and Ulrich Zülicke

Measuring attitudes to ethnic groups in the Russian-language social media
Koltsova Olessia, Nikolenko Sergey, Koltcov Sergei, Alexeeva Svetlana and Nagorny Oleg

Global warming is different from Racism: on the structure of controversy in Wikipedia
Juergen Lerner and Alessandro Lomi

A Cross-Country Comparison of Crowdworker Motivations
Lisa Posch, Arnim Bleier, Fabian Flöck and Markus Strohmaier

All Roads Lead to Lagos: Road networks and the legacies of extractive colonialism
Philipp Hunziker, Carl Muller-Crepon, Matthew Simonson, Lars-Erik Cederman and David Lazer

Computational Affective Model of Human Action in a Social Dilemma
Joshua Jung and Jesse Hoey

Patients’ written reviews as a resource for public healthcare management in England
Radoslaw Kowalski

Economic Miracle, Political Disaster? Political and Social Consequences of the Hartz-Reforms (anonymized)
Lukas Fervers

Making Money: Evidence from Individually Matched Network, Education, and Income Data
Eaman Jahani, Guillaume Saint‑jacques, Pal Sundsøy, Johannes Bjelland and Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

The Evolution and Consequences of Peer Producing Wikipedia’s Rules
Brian Keegan

Mapping the Higher Education System
Flavio L. Pinheiro and Sara Encarnação

To put that in perspective: Generating analogies that make numbers easier to understand
Christopher Riederer, Jake Hofman and Daniel Goldstein

What do our digital records reveal about us? Automatic Prediction of Demographic and Psychometric Attributes from Digital Data
Kyriaki Kalimeri, Mariano Gastón Beiró, Robert Raleigh and Ciro Cattuto

The Link Between Social Feedback and Weight Loss in a Reddit Community
Tiago Cunha, Ingmar Weber and Gisele Pappa

Demographic trends and social dynamics of a financial bubble
Federico Musciotto, Jyrki Piilo and Rosario N. Mantegna

Urban Scaling in US Presidential Elections
Eszter Bokányi, Zoltán Szállási and Gábor Vattay

Are 140 Characters the Smoke Signal of the Digital Age? Using Twitter to Predict Community Suicide Rates
Allison Phillips and Jing Zhao

Computing Quantitative Taxonomies of Social Interactions from Data
Nikolai Bode

Dyadic and network learning in online drug marketplaces: commitment or market efficiency?
Lukas Norbutas, Rense Corten and Stijn Ruiter

Children names – simulations and facts
Krzysztof Kulakowski and Malgorzata Krawczyk

Measuring the Value of Low-Cost Activism for Online Social and Political Movements
Lia Bozarth and Ceren Budak

Online Network Organization of an Emergent Movement-Party
Pablo Aragón, Yana Volkovich, David Laniado and Andreas Kaltenbrunner

Opportunities and Challenges in Computational Social Science: A Publisher’s Perspective
Katie Metzler and Ian Mulvany

Incentivized Data Sharing via Group-level Privacy-preservation
Stefano Bennati and Evangelos Pournaras

Automatic Extraction of Protest Crowd Size from Newspaper Stories.
Sunandan Chakraborty and Pablo Barberá

Trust is Extendible: An Online Experiment on Airbnb’s User Population
Bruno Abrahao, Paolo Parigi, Alok Gupta and Karen Cook

Studying Content Survival, Authorship & Controversy – By Tracing Every Word Change on Wikipedia
Fabian Flöck, Kenan Erdogan and Maribel Acosta

Revealing the Anatomy of Vote Trading
Omar Guerrero and Ulrich Matter

Computational Approaches Toward Integrating Quantified Self Sensing and Social Media
Munmun De Choudhury, Mrinal Kumar and Ingmar Weber

On the estimation of pairwise influences in dynamic choices
Stefano Nasini

Evolution of Moral Politics: Analysis on the Moral Foundations of Korean Political Parties
Changdong Oh

Small cities face greater impact from automation
Morgan Frank, Lijun Sun, Manuel Cebrian, Hyejin Youn and Iyad Rahwan

Looking for the strategies in the repeated prisoner's dilemma when the cooperation is established
Jelena Grujic and Tom Lenaerts

Observing User Behavior in Group Recommender Systems
Dimitris Sacharidis

Do news recommenders foster filter bubbles? An empirical assessment of multiple recommender systems and their impact on content diversity
Judith Moeller, Damian Trilling, Natali Helberger and Bram van Es

Hot issue publics on Twitter: Analyzing Charlotte protests with automated text analysis
Ryan Wesslen, Tiffany Gallicano, Jean-Claude Thill and Sagar Nandu

The Ikea-effect in collective problem solving
Oana Vuculescu, Carsten Bergenholtz and Michela Beretta

Spatial distributions of linguistic features are determined by the interaction of endogenous and exogenous dynamics
Henri Kauhanen, Deepthi Gopal and Tobias Galla

Social Bayesian Learning in the Wisdom of the Crowd
Dhaval Adjodah, Yan Leng, Shi Kai Chong, Peter Krafft and Alex Pentland

Mapping out the social web from Big Data: Modeling selection of communication channels
Janos Kertesz, Janos Török, Yohsuke Murase, Hang-Hyun Jo and Kimmo Kaski

Leveraging Large-Scale Ubiquitous Data for Fine-Grained Crime Prediction
Cristina Kadar and Irena Pletikosa

Women and Creativity: Gender Differences in the Production of Popular Music
Michael Mauskapf, Jared Lorince, Noah Askin, Emoke-Agnes Horvat and Brian Uzzi

Nature of Real and Perceived Bias in Chilean Media
Erick Elejalde, Leo Ferres and Eelco Herder

Problem-centric Network Embeddedness and Productivity in Open Source Software Communities
Satyam Mukherjee and Sabine Brunswicker

A trigger-conditional Hawkes process model for social protest
Dharmashankar Subramanian