Web content and emotional well-being

​Monday, 10:30am-12:00pm
Session Chair: Professor Pauline Leonard

  1. In What Mood Are You Today? An Analysis of Crowd Workers' Mood, Performance and Engagement​
    ​​    Mengdie Zhuang and Ujwal Gadiraju

  2. Prevalence and Psychological Effects of Hateful Speech in Online College Communities
    Koustuv Saha, Eshwar Chandrasekharan and Munmun De Choudhury.
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  3. Understanding Brand consistency from Web content
    Soumyadeep Roy, Niloy Ganguly, Shamik Sural, Niyati Chhaya and Anandhavelu Natarajan
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  4. Dogs Good, Trump Bad: The Impact of Social Media Content on Sense of Well-Being (short)
    Jennifer Golbeck
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  5. Differences in Emotional Reactions to Social Media Content: The Role of Location and Content Type (short)
    ​    Farhad Mohammad Afzali, Christian Haas and Margeret Hall

User behavior on the web

Monday, 2:00pm-3:30pm
Session Chair: Professor Paolo Boldi

  1. Good News for People Who Love Bad News: Centralization, Privacy, and Transparency on US News Sites
    Tim Libert and Reuben Binns
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  2. The Six Relative Advantages in Multichannel Retail for Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds and Two-Dimensional Websites
    Alex Zarifis
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  3. Auditing Autocomplete: Suggestion Networks and Recursive Algorithm Interrogation
    Ronald Robertson, Shan Jiang, David Lazer and Christo Wilson
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  4. Characterising third party cookie usage in the EU after GDPR (short)
    Xuehui Hu and Nishanth Sastry

Methods and data for Web Science

Monday, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Session Chair: Professor Dame Wendy Hall

  1. The Potential for Serious Spaceships to Make a Serious Difference
    ​    Robert Fleet and Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller
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  2. Using the Web for Science in the Classroom: Online Citizen Science Participation in Teaching and Learning
    Cathal Doyle, Rodreck David, Jane Li, Markus Luczak-Roesch, Dayle Anderson and Cameron Pierson
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  3. A Broad Evaluation of the Tor English Content Ecosystem
    Mahdieh Zabihimayvan, Reza Sadeghi, Derek Doran and Mehdi Allahyari
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  4. Incentivized Blockchain-based Social Media Platforms: A Case Study of Steemit
    Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy

  5. A Data-Driven Examination of Hotelling's Linear City Model
    Xin Liu and Konstantinos Pelechrinis
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  6. Towards a Cyberphysical Web Science: A Social Machines Perspective on Pokémon GO!
    ​    David De Roure, Jim Hendler, Diccon James, Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Max Van Kleek and Pip Willcox.

Prediction studies
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​Tuesday, 10:30am-12:00pm​
Session Chair: Professor Steffen Staab 

  1. EAN: Event Attention Network for Stock Price Trend Prediction based on Sentimental Embedding
    ​    Yaowei Wang, Qing Li, Zhexue Huang and Junjie Li
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  2. Empowering Borrowers in their choice of Lenders: Decoding Service Quality from Customer Complaints
    Aniruddha Godbole and David Crandall
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  3. Investor Retention in Equity Crowdfunding
    Igor Zakhlebin and Agnes Horvat
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  4. Harnessing Collective Intelligence in P2P Lending
    Henry Dambanemuya and Agnes Horvat
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  5. An Automated Cyclic Planning Framework Based on Plan-Do-Check-Act for Web of Things Composition
    ​    Mahda Noura and Martin Gaedke

Fairness and equality on the web
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Tuesday, 2:00pm-3:30pm
Session Chair: Professor Ricardo Baeza-Yates

  1. As the tweet, so the reply? Gender bias in digital communication with politicians
    Armin Mertens, Franziska Pradel, Ayjeren Rozyjumayeva and Jens Wäckerle

  2. Exploring Misogyny across the Manosphere in Reddit
    ​    Tracie Farrell, Miriam Fernandez, Jakub Novotny and Harith Alani

  3. Algorithmic Privacy and Gender Bias Issues in Google Ad Settings (short)
    Nisha Shekhawat, Aakanksha Chauhan and Sakthi Balan Muthiah (speaker: Ritam Dutt)​
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  4. Characterizing Transport Perception using Social Media: Differences in Mode and Gender (short)
    Paula Vásquez-Henríquez, Eduardo Graells-Garrido and Diego Caro
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  5. Pwned: Number of Breached Online Accounts Per Person and Socio-demographic Predictors (short)
    ​    Ken Cor and Gaurav Sood​

Fake news, non-human actors and misbehaviour on the web - Part I

Tuesday, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Session Chair: Professor Harith Alani

  1. Trust It or Not: Effects of Machine Learning Warning in Helping Individuals Mitigate Misinformation
    Haeseung Seo, Aiping Xiong and Dongwon Lee
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  2. Minority Report: Cyberbullying Prediction on Instagram
    Charalampos Chelmis and Mengfan Yao
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  3. Explainable Machine Learning for Fake News Detection​
    ​    Julio Reis, André Correia, Fabricio Murai, Adriano Veloso and Fabricio Benevenuto

  4. A Unified Deep Learning Architecture for Abuse Detection
    Antigoni-Maria Founta, Despoina Chatzakou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Jeremy Blackburn, Athena Vakali and Ilias Leontiadis
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  5. A Reverse Turing Test for Detecting Machine-Made Texts (short)
    Jialin Shao, Adaku Uchendu and Dongwon Lee

Fake news, non-human actors and misbehaviour on the web - Part II

Wednesday, 9:00am-10:30am
Session Chair: Professor Christo Wilson

  1. RTbust: Exploiting Temporal Patterns for Botnet Detection on Twitter
    Michele Mazza, Stefano Cresci, Marco Avvenuti, Walter Quattrociocchi and Maurizio Tesconi
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  2. Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls
    Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, William Setzer, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini and Jeremy Blackburn
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  3. What Sets Verified Users Apart? Insights, Analysis and Prediction of Verified Users on Twitter​Indraneil Paul, Abhinav Khattar, Shaan Chopra, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Manish Gupta

  4. Analyzing the Spread of Textual Information in Whatsapp Groups
    Gustavo Jota Resende, Philipe Melo, Julio C. S. Reis, Marisa Vasconcelos, Jussara Almeida and Fabricio Benevenuto
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  5. Better Safe Than Sorry: an Adversarial Approach to improve Social Bot Detection
    ​    Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi and Stefano Tognazzi​

Information diffusion

Wednesday, 11:00am-12:30pm
Session Chair: Prof. Wagner Meira Jr.

  1. New tab page recommendations strongly concentrate web browsing to familiar sources
    Homanga Bharadhwaj and Nisheeth Srivastava (speaker: Gaurav Sood)

  2. Characterizing Attention Cascades in Whatsapp Groups
    Josemar Caetano, Gabriel Magno, Marcos Gonçalves, Jussara Almeida, Humberto T. Marques-Neto and Virgilio Almeida
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  3. Debunking Rumors in Social Networks: A Timely Approach
    Liang Wu and Huan Liu
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  4. Spread of hate speech in online social media
    Binny Mathew, Ritam Dutt, Pawan Goyal and Animesh Mukherjee
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  5. Modelling web based socio-technical systems through formalising possible sequences of human experience
    Robert Walton and David De Roure
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  6. Concept of Keystone Species in Web Systems: Identifying Small Yet Influential Online Bulletin Board Threads (short)
    ​    Shota Ejima, Mizuki Oka and Takashi Ikegami

Important dates

Conference: June 30 - July 3
Workshops: Sunday, June 30
Poster Session: Monday, July 1
Banquet: Tuesday, July 2