4th Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
May 23-26, 2010, George Washington University, Washington, DC
May 23rd (Sun) || May 24th (Mon) || May 25th (Tue) || May 26th (Wed)
Tutorials
Sunday, May 23, 2010 @ Rooms 307 and 308
9.00-12.00 |
The Social Semantic Web: How Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web Can Strengthen Each Other John Breslin and Alexandre Passant (NUI Galway, Ireland) |
Introduction to Social Media Network Analysis Marc Smith (Connected Action) and Derek Hansen (University of Maryland) |
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13:00 - 16:00 |
Large-Scale Social Media Analytics with Hadoop Jake Hoffman (Yahoo!) |
The Social Psychology of Social Media through the Lens of Text Analysis Cindy Chung and James W. Pennebaker (University of Texas - Austin) |
Technical Program - Accepted Papers
All papers are online herePresenters are shown in bold
Monday, May 24, 2010 @ Grand Ballroom
8.45-9.00 |
Opening Remarks Marti Hearst |
9.00-10.00 |
Keynote: Designing Online Communities from Theory Bob Kraut, Carnegie Mellon University |
10:00-10:30 |
Break |
Session Chair: Nicole Ellison |
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10.30-10.55 |
20 Sequential Influence Models in Social Networks Dan Cosley, Daniel Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg, Xiangyang Lan, Siddharth Suri |
10.55-11.20 |
47 ePluribus : Ethnicity on Social Networks - Best Paper Award Jonathan Chang, Itamar Rosenn, Lars Backstrom, Cameron Marlow |
11.20-11.45 |
125 Who Acquires Friends Through Social Media and Why? “Rich Get Richer” versus “Seek and Ye Shall Find” Zeynep Tufekci |
11.45-12.10 |
66 To be a star is not only metaphoric: from popularity to social linkage Alina Stoica, Thomas Couronne, Jean-Samuel Beuscart |
12:10-1:30 |
Lunch |
Session Chair: Winter Mason |
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1.30-1.55 |
140 The Social Dynamics of Economic Activity in a Virtual World - Best Paper Award Eytan Bakshy, Matthew Simmons, David Huffaker, ChunYuen Teng, Lada Adamic |
1.55-2.20 |
43 Your Brain on Facebook: Neuropsychological Associations with Social Versus other Media Kristie Fisher, Scott Counts |
2.20-2.45 |
143 Towards Social Causality: An Analysis of Interpersonal Relations in Online Blogs and Forums Roxana Girju |
2.45-3.10 |
19 How Does the Data Sampling Strategy Impact the Discovery of Information Diffusion in Social Media? Munmun De Choudhury, Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, K. Selcuk Candan, Lexing Xie, Aisling Kelliher |
3.10-3.35 |
124 Tagging Over Time: A Longitudinal Study of the Role of Attention, Network Density, and Motivations Paul Russo, Oded Nov |
3:35-4:00 |
Break |
Session Chair: Jason Kessler | |
4.00-4.25 |
155 Microblogging Inside and Outside the Workplace Kate Ehrlich, N. Sadat Shami |
4.25-4.50 |
38 Measuring User Influence on Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy Meeyoung Cha, Hamed Haddadi, Fabricio Benevenuto, and Krishna P. Gummad |
4.50-5.15 |
94 The Directed Closure Process in Information Networks with an Analysis of Link Formation on Twitter Daniel Romero, Jon Kleinberg |
5.15-5.40 |
122 Characterizing Microblogs with Topic Models Daniel Ramage, Susan Dumais, Dan Liebling |
6.00-10.00 |
Reception - Hippodrome, 5th Floor, Marvin Center |
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 @ Grand Ballroom
9.00-10.00 |
Invited Symposium: Research on Social Media in the Social Sciences - Chair: Marc Smith 9:00 Words as reflections of psychological state James W. Pennebaker 9:20 Got Facebook? Investigating What's Social About Social Media S. Craig Watkins 9:40 Researching interaction in social media: Examining online and offline communication processes in online dating and social network sites Nicole B. Ellison |
10.00-10.30 |
Break |
Session Chair: danah boyd |
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10.30-10.55 |
17 Predicting Elections with Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal about Political Sentiment Andranik Tumasjan, Timm Sprenger, Philipp Sandner, Isabell Welpe |
10.55-11.20 |
148 From Tweets to Polls: Linking Text Sentiment to Public Opinion Time Series Brendan O'Connor, Ramnath Balasubramanyan, Bryan R. Routledge, Noah Smith |
11.20-11.45 |
75 Information Contagion: an Empirical Study of the Spread of News on Digg and Twitter Social Networks Kristina Lerman, Rumi Ghosh |
11.45-12.10 |
30 Tweeting from the Town Square: Measuring Geographic Local Networks Sarita Yardi, danah boyd |
12.10-1.30 |
Lunch |
1.30-2.30 |
Panel Discussion - US Government and Social Media Macon Phillips: White House, Don Burke: CIA, Haym Hirsh: NSF |
2.30-3.00 |
Break |
Session Chair: Matt Hurst |
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3.00-3.25 |
89 StepGreen.org: Increasing energy saving behaviors via social networks Jennifer Mankoff, Susan R. Fussell, Rachel Glaves, Michael Johnson, Deanna Matthews, Scott Matthews, Robert McGuire, Robert Thompson, Aubrey Shick, Leslie Setlock |
3.25-3.50 |
142 Governance in Social Media: A case study of the Wikipedia promotion process Jure Leskovec, Daniel Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg |
3.50-4.15 |
10 Activity Lifespan: An Analysis of User Survival Patterns in Online Knowledge Sharing Communities Jiang Yang, Xiao Wei, Mark Ackerman, Lada Adamic |
4.15-4.40 |
39 Responses to remixing on a social media sharing website Benjamin Mako Hill, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Kristina R. Olson |
4.40-5.30 |
Poster Madness |
6.00-10.00 |
Poster and Demos Reception - Continental Ballroom |
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 @ Continental Ballroom
9.00-10.00 |
Keynote: Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania |
10.00-10.30 |
Break |
Session Chair: Claire Cardie |
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10.30-10.55 |
35 ICWSM - A Great Catchy Name: Semi-Supervised Recognition of Sarcastic Sentences in Product Reviews Oren Tsur, Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport |
10.55-11.20 |
105 Widespread Worry and the Stock Market Eric Gilbert, Karrie Karahalios |
11.20-11.45 |
119 Star Quality: Aggregating Reviews to Rank Products and Merchants Mary McGlohon, Natalie Glance, Zach Reiter |
11.45-12.10 |
132 Study of Static Classification of Social Spam Profiles in MySpace Danesh Irani, Steve Webb, Calton Pu |
12.10-12.15 |
Closing remarks |
12.15-1.30 |
Lunch |
Data Challenge Workshop
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 @ Continental Ballroom
2.00 - 3.00 |
Welcome and Introduction Ian Soboroff Invited Keynote Panel Representatives of the Library of Congress discuss Twitter archive at LOC |
3.00 - 3.45 |
News Detection in the Blogosphere: Two Approaches Based on Structure
and Content Analysis
Leandro Franco, Hideki Kawai Statistical Measure of the Effectiveness of the Open Editing Model of Wikipedia Sara Javanmardi, Yasser Ganjisaffar, Cristina Lopes, Pierre Baldi |
3.45-4.00 |
Break |
4.00 - 4.45 |
The ICWSM 2010 JDPA Sentiment Corpus for the Automotive Domain
Jason S. Kessler, Miriam Eckert, Lyndsie Clark, Nicolas Nicolov Extracting Information Networks from the Blogosphere: State-of-the-Art and Challenges Filipe Mesquita, Yuval Merhav, Denilson Barbosa |
4.45 - 5.30 |
Invited Panel on Data-Driven Research Challenges in the Social Media
industry Panelists include representatives from Facebook and others |