Online forums provide rich environments where users may post questions and comments
about different topics. Understanding how people behave in online forums may shed light on …

Background The exposure and consumption of information during epidemic outbreaks may
alter people's risk perception and trigger behavioral changes, which can ultimately affect the …

Advances in Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies are driving the rise of
incentivized social media platforms over Blockchains, where no single entity can take control …

Social media platforms have become part of many people's lives. Users are spending more
and more time on these platforms, creating an active and passive digital footprint through …

As researchers use computational methods to study complex social behaviors at scale, the
validity of this computational social science depends on the integrity of the data. On July 2 …

Loyalty is an essential component of multi-community engagement. When users have the
choice to engage with a variety of different communities, they often become loyal to just one …

A community's identity defines and shapes its internal dynamics. Our current understanding
of this interplay is mostly limited to glimpses gathered from isolated studies of individual …

Online social media foster the creation of active communities around shared narratives.
Such communities may turn into incubators for conspiracy theories—some spreading violent …

Pattern counting in graphs is fundamental to several network sci-ence tasks, and there is an
abundance of scalable methods for estimating counts of small patterns, often called motifs …

Increasingly people form opinions based on information they consume on online social
media. As a result, it is crucial to understand what type of content attracts people's attention …