Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional actions often trigger outcomes that we did not intend or even envision. How do we explain those unintended effects and what can we do to regulate them? In this talk, I will discuss research that ...

In this research, we hypothesize that some social users are more gullible to fake news than others, and accordingly investigate on the susceptibility of users to fake news--i.e., how to identify susceptible users, what are their characteristics, and if ...

Timing of supply and demand for information on a topic does not always coincide. Sometimes one of them rises first, then the other follows. We show a classification of hot topics on the Web in the past based on the temporal relationship between their ...

In this paper, we present a study to identify similarities and differences in how users express themselves on Twitter during two editions of the most watched sports events in the world, the finals of the FIFA Soccer World Cup of 2014 and 2018. Our ...

Brands produce content to engage with the audience continually and tend to maintain a set of human characteristics in their marketing campaigns. In this era of digital marketing, they need to create a lot of content to keep up the engagement with their ...

Background. Hateful speech bears negative repercussions and is particularly damaging in college communities. The efforts to regulate hateful speech on college campuses pose vexing socio-political problems, and the interventions to mitigate the effects ...

Whatsapp is a messenger app that is currently very popular around the world. With a user-friendly interface, it allows people to instantaneously exchange messages in a very intuitive and fluid way. The app also allows people to interact using group ...

Hate speech, offensive language, sexism, racism, and other types of abusive behavior have become a common phenomenon in many online social media platforms. In recent years, such diverse abusive behaviors have been manifesting with increased frequency ...

Recently, there have been many research efforts aiming to understand fake news phenomena and to identify typical patterns and features of fake news. Yet, the real discriminating power of these features is still unknown: some are more general, but others ...

Identifying, investigating, and potentially disrupting organised criminal networks is difficult. Data gathered by law enforcement and regulatory authorities are often inconsistent, incomplete, and inaccurate. Computational criminology attempts to ...

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 11th ACM Conference on Web Science (Websci'19), June 30 -- July 3, 2019, Boston, MA, USA.

This year, the conference theme is "Synergies for the Good: The Web and Society". We welcomed interdisciplinary ...