Social Informatics
11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019, Doha, Qatar, November 18–21, 2019, Proceedings
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Migration is hard to measure due to the complexity of the phenomenon and the limitations of traditional data sources. The Digital Revolution has brought opportunities in terms of new data and new methodologies...
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11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019, Doha, Qatar, November 18–21, 2019, Proceedings
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Migrant assimilation is a major challenge for European societies, in part because of the sudden surge of refugees in recent years and in part because of long-term demographic trends. In this paper, we use Face...
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Increasing prevalence of obesity has disconcerting implications for communities, for nations and, most importantly, for individuals in aspects ranging from quality of life, longevity and health, to social and ...
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We consider the problem of obtaining unbiased estimates of group properties in social networks when using a classifier for node labels. Inference for this problem is complicated by two factors: the network is ...
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Lack of diversity in advertising is a long-standing problem. Despite growing cultural awareness and missed business opportunities, many minorities remain under- or inappropriately represented in advertising. P...
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In this paper, we introduce an approach for diversifying user comments on news articles. We claim that, although content diversity suffices for the keyword search setting, as proven by existing work on search ...
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The rise in popularity of Twitter has led to a debate on its impact on public opinions. The optimists foresee an increase in online participation and democratization due to social media’s personal and interact...
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We use public data from Twitter to study the breakups of the romantic relationships of 661 couples. Couples are identified through profile references such as @user1 writing “@user2 is the best boyfriend ever!!...
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Article 1 of the United Nations Charter claims “human rights” and “fundamental freedoms” “without distinction as to [...] sex”. Yet in 1995 the Human Development Report came to the sobering conclusion that “in...
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Religiosity is a powerful force sha** human societies, affecting domains as diverse as economic growth or the ability to cope with illness. As more religious leaders and organizations as well as believers st...
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The Name-Letter Effect states that people have a preference for brands, places, and even jobs that start with the same letter as their own first name. So Sam might like Snickers and live in Seattle. We use soc...
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We consider the following autocompletion search scenario: imagine a user of a search engine ty** a query; then with every keystroke display those completions of the last query word that would lead to the bes...