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    Elections and Bots

    Posted on Wednesday 6 January 2021 by Unknown

    Continuing our work on bots,  Ross Schuchard and myself have a new paper in PLOS ONE entitled “Insights into elections: An ensemble bot detection coverage framework applied to the 2018 U.S. midterm elections.” Our motivation for the work came from…

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    Big Data, Bots, data mining, Social Networks

    Elections and Bots

    Posted on Wednesday 6 January 2021 by Unknown

    Continuing our work on bots,  Ross Schuchard and myself have a new paper in PLOS ONE entitled “Insights into elections: An ensemble bot detection coverage framework applied to the 2018 U.S. midterm elections.” Our motivation for the work came from…

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    Big Data, Bots, data mining, Social Networks

    Beyond Words: Comparing Structure, Emoji Use, and Consistency Across Social Media Posts

    Posted on Tuesday 1 September 2020 by Unknown

    Continuing our work on Emojis, at the forthcoming International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (or SBP-BRiMS for short) we (Melanie Swartz, Arie Croit…

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    Bots, emojis, social media, twitter

    Beyond Words: Comparing Structure, Emoji Use, and Consistency Across Social Media Posts

    Posted on Tuesday 1 September 2020 by Unknown

    Continuing our work on Emojis, at the forthcoming International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (or SBP-BRiMS for short) we (Melanie Swartz, Arie Croit…

    Continue reading »
    Bots, emojis, social media, twitter

    Bots Fired: Examining Social Bot Evidence in Online Mass Shooting Conversations

    Posted on Tuesday 10 December 2019 by Unknown

    Building upon our work with respect to how bots impact online conversations pertaining to global events and  health,  we have extended this research to see what role bots play in mass shooting events. In our new paper published in Palgrave Co…

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    Bots, crime, networks, social media, Social network analysis

    Bots Fired: Examining Social Bot Evidence in Online Mass Shooting Conversations

    Posted on Tuesday 10 December 2019 by Unknown

    Building upon our work with respect to how bots impact online conversations pertaining to global events and  health,  we have extended this research to see what role bots play in mass shooting events. In our new paper published in Palgrave Co…

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    Bots, crime, networks, social media, Social network analysis

    Communities, Bots and Vaccinations

    Posted on Wednesday 4 September 2019 by Unknown

    Following on from our work on bots and health discussions in relation to online social networks (OSNs), Xiaoyi Yuan, Ross Schuchard and myself have just published a paper entitled “Examining Emergent Communities and Detecting Social Bots within the Pol…

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    Bots, Computational Social Science, health, Machine Learning, social media, Social network analysis

    Communities, Bots and Vaccinations

    Posted on Wednesday 4 September 2019 by Unknown

    Following on from our work on bots and health discussions in relation to online social networks (OSNs), Xiaoyi Yuan, Ross Schuchard and myself have just published a paper entitled “Examining Emergent Communities and Detecting Social Bots within the Pol…

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    Bots, Computational Social Science, health, Social network analysis

    Bot stamina: Examining the influence and staying power of bots in online social networks

    Posted on Thursday 1 August 2019 by Unknown

    Following on with our work on bots we just had a paper published in Applied Network Science entitled “Bot Stamina: Examining the Influence and Staying Power of Bots in Online Social Networks” which is significant extension of a previous conference pape…

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    Bots, networks, Social network analysis, twitter

    Bot stamina: Examining the influence and staying power of bots in online social networks

    Posted on Thursday 1 August 2019 by Unknown

    Following on with our work on bots we just had a paper published in Applied Network Science entitled “Bot Stamina: Examining the Influence and Staying Power of Bots in Online Social Networks” which is significant extension of a previous conference pape…

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    Bots, networks, Social network analysis, twitter

    Bots in Social Networks

    Posted on Wednesday 5 December 2018 by Andrew Crooks

    Recently our research has started to dig deeper into social media, especially how bots diffuse information in online social networks (OSNs). To this end at the  7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications we had a paper…

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    Bots, networks, social media, Social network analysis, Social Networks

    Bots in Social Networks

    Posted on Wednesday 5 December 2018 by Andrew Crooks

    Recently our research has started to dig deeper into social media, especially how bots diffuse information in online social networks (OSNs). To this end at the  7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications we had a paper…

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    Bots, networks, social media, Social network analysis, Social Networks

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