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Which topics spark the most heated debates in social media? Identifying these topics is a first step towards creating systems which pierce echo chambers. In this paper, we perform a systematic… (More)
Several projects have shown the feasibility to use emph{textual} social media data to track public health concerns, such as temporal influenza patterns or geographical obesity patterns. In this… (More)
- Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Ingmar Weber
- ICWSM
- 2017
Social media has played an important role in shaping political discourse over the last decade. At the same time, it is often perceived to have increased political polarization, thanks to the scale of… (More)
- Ingmar Weber, Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella
- ICWSM
- 2014
We present a system that visualizes geo-temporal Twitter activity. The distinguishing features our system offers include, (i) a large degree of user freedom in specifying the subset of data to… (More)
We present an in-depth study of co-following on Twitter based on the observation that two Twitter users whose followers have similar friends are also similar, even though they might not share any… (More)
- Ingmar Weber, Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Erik Borra
- WebSci
- 2012
We present a novel approach to using anonymized web search query logs to analyze and visualize political issues. Our starting point is a list of politically annotated blogs (left vs. right). We use… (More)
The subjective nature of gender inequality motivates the analysis and comparison of data from real and fictional human interaction. We present a computational extension of the Bechdel test: A popular… (More)
Society is often polarized by controversial issues that split the population into groups with opposing views. When such issues emerge on social media, we often observe the creation of `echo… (More)
We study the change in polarization of hashtags on Twitter over time and show that certain jumps in polarity are caused by "hijackers" engaged in a particular type of hashtag war.
Social media platforms provide several social interactional features. Due to the large scale reach of social media, these interactional features help enable various types of political discourse.… (More)