Infectious disease is a leading threat to public health, economic stability, and other key
social structures. Efforts to mitigate these impacts depend on accurate and timely monitoring …

Misinformation has developed into a critical societal threat that can lead to disastrous
societal consequences. Although fact-checking plays a key role in combating …

Recently developed information communication technologies, particularly the Internet, have
affected how we, both as individuals and as a society, create, store, and recall information …

Effective disease monitoring provides a foundation for effective public health systems. This
has historically been accomplished with patient contact and bureaucratic aggregation, which …

We study how users of multiple online social networks (OSNs) employ and share information
by studying a common user pool that use six OSNs--Flickr, Google+, Instagram, Tumblr …

This paper examines news and emotions by studying Facebook Reactions (emojis) that
were introduced in February 2016. Four main emotions are investigated by exploring …

The last several decades have witnessed a shift in the way in which news is delivered and
consumed by users. With the growth and advancements in mobile technologies, the Internet …

We are living in a world of big sensor data. Due to the widespread prevalence of visual
sensors (eg surveillance cameras) and social sensors (eg Twitter feeds), many events are …

Researchers have attempted to model information diffusion and topic trends and lifecycle on
online social networks. They have investigated the role of content, social connections and …