Social Informatics: 6th International Conference, SocInfo 2014, Barcelona, Spain, November 11-13, 2014, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8851)

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2014, held in Barcelona, Spain, in November 2014. The 28 full papers and 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as network, communities, and crowds; interpersonal links and gender biases; news, credibility, and opinion formation; science and technologies; organizations, society and social good. Front Matter....Pages - On Joint Modeling of Topical Communities and Personal Interest in Microblogs....Pages 1-16 Bridging Social Network Analysis and Judgment Aggregation....Pages 17-33 Friend Grouping Algorithms for Online Social Networks: Preference, Bias, and Implications....Pages 34-49 The Influence of Indirect Ties on Social Network Dynamics....Pages 50-65 Predicting Online Community Churners Using Gaussian Sequences....Pages 66-79 GitHub Projects. Quality Analysis of Open-Source Software....Pages 80-94 Improving on Popularity as a Proxy for Generality When Building Tag Hierarchies from Folksonomies....Pages 95-111 Evolution of Cooperation in SNS-norms Game on Complex Networks and Real Social Networks....Pages 112-120 International Gender Differences and Gaps in Online Social Networks....Pages 121-138 Gender Patterns in a Large Online Social Network....Pages 139-150 User Profiling via Affinity-Aware Friendship Network....Pages 151-165 Disenchanting the World: The Impact of Technology on Relationships....Pages 166-182 Look into My Eyes & See, What You Mean to Me. Social Presence as Source for Social Capital....Pages 183-198 From “I Love You Babe” to “Leave Me Alone” - Romantic Relationship Breakups on Twitter....Pages 199-215 The Social Name-Letter Effect on Online Social Networks....Pages 216-227 TweetCred: Real-Time Credibility Assessment of Content on Twitter....Pages 228-243 Can Diversity Improve Credibility of User Review Data?....Pages 244-258 Social Determinants of Content Selection in the Age of (Mis)Information....Pages 259-268 How Hidden Aspects Can Improve Recommendation?....Pages 269-278 The Geography of Online News Engagement....Pages 279-289 On the Feasibility of Predicting News Popularity at Cold Start....Pages 290-299 A First Look at Global News Coverage of Disasters by Using the GDELT Dataset....Pages 300-308 Probabilistic User-Level Opinion Detection on Online Social Networks....Pages 309-325 Stemming the Flow of Information in a Social Network....Pages 326-335 Is Twitter a Public Sphere for Online Conflicts? A Cross-Ideological and Cross-Hierarchical Look....Pages 336-347 Distributions of Opinion and Extremist Radicalization: Insights from Agent-Based Modeling....Pages 348-358 Mapping the (R-)Evolution of Technological Fields – A Semantic Network Approach....Pages 359-383 Utilizing Microblog Data in a Topic Modelling Framework for Scientific Articles’ Recommendation....Pages 384-395 Mining Mobile Phone Data to Investigate Urban Crime Theories at Scale....Pages 396-411 Detecting Child Grooming Behaviour Patterns on Social Media....Pages 412-427 Digital Rights and Freedoms: A Framework for Surveying Users and Analyzing Policies....Pages 428-443 Integrating Social Media Communications into the Rapid Assessment of Sudden Onset Disasters....Pages 444-461 Towards Happier Organisations: Understanding the Relationship between Communication and Productivity....Pages 462-477 Measuring Social and Spatial Relations in an Office Move....Pages 478-492 Determining Team Hierarchy from Broadcast Communications....Pages 493-507 Cultural Attributes and their Influence on Consumption Patterns in Popular Music....Pages 508-530 Migration of Professionals to the U.S.....Pages 531-543 U.S. Religious Landscape on Twitter....Pages 544-560 Who Are My Audiences? A Study of the Evolution of Target Audiences in Microblogs....Pages 561-572 Back Matter....Pages -