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Millions of social bots invaded Twitter!
Our work titled Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization has been accepted for publication at the prestigious International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017) to be held in Montreal, Canada in May 2017! The goal of…
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Complex System Society 2016 Junior Scientific Award!
I was selected as recipient of the 2016 Junior Scientific Award by the Complex System Society! The award reads: Emilio Ferrara is one of the most active and successful young researchers in the field of computational social sciences. His works include the design…
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Twitter, Social Bots, and the US Presidential Elections!
Our paper titled Social bots distort the 2016 U.S. Presidential election online discussion was published on the November 2016 issue of First Monday and selected as Editor’s featured article! We investigated how social bots, automatic accounts that populate the Twitter-sphere, are…
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Looking for exceptional postdoc candidates in Computational Social Sciences
Apply at: https://jobs.usc.edu/postings/71574 – and contact me!
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The Rise of Social Bots!
Emilio Ferrara discusses “The Rise of Social Bots” on the July 2016 Communications of the ACM. Our review paper on the rise of social bots has appeared on the cover of the July 2016 issue of Communications of the ACM…
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The structure of Mafia syndacates
S Agreste, S Catanese, P De Meo, E Ferrara, G Fiumara. Network structure and resilience of Mafia syndicates. Information Sciences, 2016 Useful links: Journal page | Arxiv In this paper in collaboration with colleagues from University of Messina (Italy) we present the…
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Emotional contagion in Twitter!
E Ferrara, Z Yang. Measuring Emotional Contagion in Social Media. PLoS ONE, 2015 Useful links: Journal page Spotlight: How Emotions Spread On Twitter from USC Viterbi on Vimeo. Our recent work on measuring the presence of emotional contagion in Twitter is finally…
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Style in the age of Instagram!
J Park, GL Ciampaglia, and E Ferrara. The 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2016) Useful links: Arxiv | ACM Our work on Science of Success applied to the Fashion world is attracting a lot of…
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Defining and identifying Sleeping Beauties in science
Q Ke, E Ferrara, F Radicchi, and A Flammini. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015 Useful links: Arxiv | PNAS Scientific papers typically have a finite lifetime: their rate to attract citations achieves its maximum a few years…
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Evolution of Online User Behavior During a Social Upheaval
O Varol, E Ferrara, C Ogan, F Menczer, and A Flammini. ACM Web Science 2014 Useful links: Arxiv | ACM Digital Library. Social media represent powerful tools of mass communication and information diffusion. They played a pivotal role during recent…