—Social networks and discussion boards have become a significant outlet where people communicate and express their opinion freely. Although the social networks themselves are us...
Social networks are some of the largest and fastest growing online services today. Facebook, for example, has been ranked as the second most visited site on the Internet, and has b...
Danesh Irani, Marco Balduzzi, Davide Balzarotti, E...
This paper addresses the topic of social advertising, which refers to the allocation of ads based on individual user social information and behaviors. As social network services (e...
A number of studies have identified a robust relationship between the use of social network sites, particularly Facebook, and positive outcomes such as social capital. Social netw...
Although extensive studies have been conducted on online social networks (OSNs), it is not clear how to characterize information propagation and social influence, two types of impo...