Conference Program

Monday 4th Tuesday 5th Wednesday 6th Thursday 7th
Workshops
Lower Level (B2)
Tutorials
Lower Level (B2)
Conference
Tercentenary Hall,
Level 2
Conference
Tercentenary Hall,
Level 2
Conference
Tercentenary Hall,
Level 2
08:30 08:30 Workshops 08:45 Welcome
09:00 09:00 Tutorials 09:00 Andrew Tomkins (Keynote) 09:00 Lada Adamic (Keynote) 09:00 Town Hall Meeting
09:30
10:00 10:00 Coffee 10:00 Coffee 10:00 Fabrizio Sestini (Invited)
10:30 10:30 Coffee 10:30 Coffee 10:30 Oral 1 (Privacy & Trust) 10:30 Oral 4 (Topics, Sentiment & Emotion) 10:30 Coffee
11:00 11:00 Workshops 11:00 Tutorials 10:55 Oral 5 (Network Features & Diffusion)
11:30
12:00 12:00 Lunch (Not Provided) 12:10 Lightning 1 (Diffusion & Propagation; Topics, Sentiment & Emotion) 12:10 Lightning 2 (Geographical; Messages & Discussions) 12:10 Lightning 3 (Connections & Interactions; Politics & News)
12:30 12:30 Lunch (Not Provided)
13:00 13:00 Hosted Lunch 13:00 Hosted Lunch 13:00 Lunch (Not Provided) / Optional Tour of Science Gallery
13:30 13:30 Workshops 13:30 Tutorials
14:00 14:00 Igor Perisic (Industry Keynote)
14:30 14:30 Oral 2 (User Profiling & Grouping) 14:30 Robin Dunbar (Keynote)
15:00 15:00 Coffee 15:00 Coffee 15:00 Social Business (Industry Panel)
15:30 15:30 Workshops 15:30 Tutorials 15:45 Coffee 15:30 Coffee
16:00 16:00 Oral 3 (Dynamics & Interactions) 16:00 Coffee and Industry Stands 16:00 Oral 6 (Learning & Information Seeking)
16:30
17:00 17:15 Short Break 16:45 Social News (Industry Panel) 17:15 Awards and Closing Remarks
17:30 17:30 Posters and Demos Reception
18:00 18:00 Break Until 19:30
18:30
19:00
19:30 19:30 Conference Reception at the Guinness Storehouse
20:00
20:30 20:30 End
21:00
21:30
22:00
22:30
23:00


Tuesday, 5th June 2012

08:45 - 09:00

Welcome from John Breslin (General Chair)

Programme Highlights from James Shanahan, Nicole Ellison, Zeynep Tufekci (Programme Chairs)

09:00 - 10:00

Andrew Tomkins, Google+ (Keynote)

Social Networking and Google+: A Historical Perspective

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee

The coffee break will be held in the Knowledge Exchange Area on Level 2. Coffee, tea and light breakfast items will be served.

10:30 - 12:10

Oral 1 (Privacy & Trust)

Session Chair: Ian Soboroff (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

37: Distributional Footprints of Deceptive Product Reviews Best Paper Candidate!
Song Feng, Longfei Xing, Anupam Gogar and Yejin Choi (Stony Brook University)

29: Privacy in Interaction: Exploring Disclosure and Social Capital in Facebook Best Paper Candidate!
Fred Stutzman (Carnegie Mellon University), Jessica Vitak (Michigan State University), Nicole B. Ellison (Michigan State University), Rebecca Gray (Michigan State University), Cliff Lampe (University of Michigan)

81: Don’t Disturb My Circles! Boundary Preservation Is at the Center of Location-Sharing Concerns
Xinru Page, Alfred Kobsa and Bart P. Knijnenburg (UC Irvine)

231: Facebook and Privacy: The Balancing Act of Personality, Gender, and Relationship Currency
Daniele Quercia (University of Cambridge), Diego Las Casas (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), João Paulo Pesce (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), David Stillwell (University of Nottingham), Michal Kosinski (University of Cambridge), Virgilio Almeida (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge)

12:10 - 13:00

Lightning 1 (Diffusion & Propagation; Topics, Sentiment & Emotion)

Session Chair: Ian Soboroff (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Each lightning session starts with a boaster presentation (1 minute per paper), followed by 50 minutes where all attendees get to visit the presented poster paper (full papers).

44: OMG, I Have to Tweet That! A Study of Factors that Influence Tweet Rates
Emre Kıcıman (Microsoft Research)

58: Learning the Nature of Information in Social Networks
Rakesh Agrawal (Microsoft Research), Michalis Potamias (Groupon) and Evimaria Terzi (Boston University)

158: Event Diffusion Patterns in Social Media
Minkyoung Kim, Lexing Xie, Peter Christen (Australian National University)

186: Virality and Susceptibility in Information Diffusions
Tuan-Anh Hoang, Ee-Peng Lim (Singapore Management University)

86: People Are Strange When You're a Stranger: Impact and Influence of Bots on Social Networks
Luca Maria Aiello, Martina Deplano, Rossano Schifanella, Giancarlo Ruffo (Università degli Studi di Torino)

40: Managing Bad News in Social Media: A Case Study on the Domino’s Pizza Crisis
Jaram Park, Meeyoung Cha, Hoh Kim and Jaeseung Jeong (KAIST)

207: Coping with the Document Frequency Bias in Sentiment Classification
Abdelhalim Rafrafi, Vincent Guigue, Patrick Gallinari (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)

300: Extracting Diverse Sentiment Expressions with Target-dependent Polarity from Twitter
Lu Chen (Wright State University), Wenbo Wang (Wright State University), Meenakshi Nagarajan (IBM Research), Shaojun Wang (Wright State University), Amit P. Sheth (Wright State University)

284: You Too?! Mixed-Initiative LDA Story Matching to Help Teens in Distress
Karthik Dinakar (MIT), Birago Jones (MIT), Henry Lieberman (MIT), Rosalind Picard (MIT), Carolyn Rose (Carnegie Mellon University), Matthew Thoman (Northeastern University), Roi Reichart (MIT)

13:00 - 14:30

Hosted Lunch

Sponsored lunch platters will be served in the Knowledge Exchange Area on the second level.

14:30 - 15:45

Oral 2 (User Profiling & Grouping)

Session Chair: Clay Fink (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)

151: The Livehoods Project: Utilizing Social Media to Understand the Dynamics of a City Best Paper Candidate!
Justin Cranshaw, Raz Schwartz, Jason Hong and Norman Sadeh (Carnegie Mellon University)

296: Who Does What on the Web: A Large-Scale Study of Browsing Behavior
Sharad Goel (Yahoo! Research), Jake M. Hofman (Yahoo! Research), M. Irmak Sirer (Northwestern University)

145: Evolution of Experts in Question Answering Communities
Aditya Pal, Shuo Chang and Joseph A. Konstan (University of Minnesota)

15:45 - 16:00

Coffee

The coffee break will be held in the Knowledge Exchange Area on Level 2. Coffee, tea, soft drinks, water and light snacks will be served.

16:00 - 17:15

Oral 3 (Dynamics & Interactions)

Session Chair: Winter Mason (Stevens Institute of Technology)

76: Temporal Motifs Reveal the Dynamics of Editor Interactions in Wikipedia
David Jurgens (UCLA) and Tsai-Ching Lu (HRL Laboratories)

128: Modeling Spread of Disease from Social Interactions Best Paper Candidate!
Adam Sadilek, Henry Kautz and Vincent Silenzio (University of Rochester)

287: Modeling Destructive Group Dynamics in On-line Gaming Communities
Akshay Patil (Stony Brook University), Juan Liu (PARC), Bob Price (PARC), Hossam Sharara (University of Maryland), Oliver Brdiczka (PARC)

17:30 - 20:30

Posters and Demos Session

The Poster and Demos Session will be held in the foyer of Tercentenary Hall (Bull Nose), the Gallery, and the Knowledge Exchange, all on the second level. Hors d'oeuvres, beer, wine, and soft drinks will be served. Admission is included in the conference registration fee. Guest tickets may be purchased for $35 USD.

Wednesday, 6th June 2012

09:00 - 10:00

Lada Adamic, University of Michigan (Keynote)

The Information Life of Social

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee

The coffee break will be held in the Knowledge Exchange Area on Level 2. Coffee, tea and light breakfast items will be served.

10:30 - 12:10

Oral 4 (Topics, Sentiment & Emotion)

Session Chair: Amit Sheth (Knoesis, Wright State University)

271: Not All Moods are Created Equal! Exploring Human Emotional States in Social Media
Munmun De Choudhury, Scott Counts and Michael Gamon (Microsoft Research)

278: Grief-Stricken in a Crowd: The Language of Bereavement and Distress in Social Media Best Paper Candidate!
Jed R. Brubaker (UC Irvine), Funda Kivran-Swaine (Rutgers University), Lee Taber (UC Irvine), Gillian R. Hayes (UC Irvine)

75: Crossing Media Streams with Sentiment: Domain Adaptation in Blogs, Reviews and Twitter
Yelena Mejova and Padmini Srinivasan (University of Iowa)

141: What Were the Tweets About? Topical Associations between Public Events and Twitter Feeds
Yuheng Hu (Arizona State University), Ajita John (Avaya Research Labs), Dorée Duncan Seligmann (Avaya Research Labs), Fei Wang (IBM Research)

12:10 - 13:00

Lightning 2 (Geographical; Messages & Discussions)

Session Chair: Amit Sheth (Knoesis, Wright State University)

Each lightning session starts with a boaster presentation (1 minute per paper), followed by 50 minutes where all attendees get to visit the presented poster paper (full papers).

110: Exploring Social-Historical Ties on Location-Based Social Networks
Huiji Gao, Jiliang Tang and Huan Liu (Arizona State University)

255: The Social World of Twitter: Topics, Geography, and Emotions
Daniele Quercia (University of Cambridge), Licia Capra (University College London) and Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge)

242: Geographic Dissection of the Twitter Network
Juhi Kulshrestha, Farshad Kooti, Ashkan Nikravesh, Krishna P. Gummadi (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)

308: War Versus Inspirational in Forrest Gump: Cultural Effects in Tagging Communities
Zhenhua Dong (Nankai University), Chuan Shi (University of Minnesota), Shilad Sen (Macalester College), Loren Terveen (University of Minnesota), John Riedl (University of Minnesota)

342: On the Study of Diurnal Urban Routines on Twitter
Mor Naaman (Rutgers University), Amy Zhang (University of Cambridge), Samuel Brody (Rutgers University), Gilad Lotan (Social Flow)

100: Cross-Community Influence in Discussion Fora
Václav Belák, Samantha Lam and Conor Hayes (DERI, NUI Galway)

279: Have You Heard?: How Gossip Flows through Workplace Email
Tanushree Mitra, Eric Gilbert (Georgia Institute of Technology)

354: Around the Water Cooler: Shared Discussion Topics and Contact Closeness in Social Search
Saranga Komanduri (Carnegie Mellon University), Lujun Fang (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor), David Huffaker (Google), Jessica Staddon (Google)

334: Defense Mechanism or Socialization Tactic?  Improving Wikipedia’s Notifications to Rejected Contributors
R. Stuart Geiger (UC Berkeley), Aaron Halfaker (University of Minnesota), Maryana Pinchuk (Wikimedia Foundation) and Steven Walling (Wikimedia Foundation)

13:00 - 14:00

Hosted Lunch

Sponsored lunch platters will be served in the Knowledge Exchange Area on the second level.

14:00 - 15:00

Igor Perisic, LinkedIn (Industry Keynote)

A Look at Some Dynamics of Social Networking Following the Jobs Ecosystem

15:00 - 16:00

Social Business (Industry Panel)

I Want to (Net)work With You, But I Don't Know What/Where/Who You Are

16:00 - 16:45

Coffee and Industry Stands

The coffee break will be held in the Knowledge Exchange Area on Level 2. Coffee, tea, soft drinks, water and light snacks will be served. Attendees can visit the industry stands at this time.

16:45 - 18:00

Social News (Industry Panel)

News Generation and Consumption Through Social Media

19:30 - 23:30

Opening Reception at the Guinness Storehouse

Thursday, 7th June 2012

09:00 - 10:00

Town Hall Meeting

Discuss the future of ICWSM!

10:00 - 10:30

Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission (Invited)

Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation

10:30 - 10:55

Coffee

The coffee break will be held in the Knowledge Exchange Area on Level 2. Coffee, tea and light breakfast items will be served.

10:55 - 12:10

Oral 5 (Network Features & Diffusion)

Session Chair: Munmun De Choudhury (Microsoft Research)

221: The Emergence of Conventions in Online Social Networks Best Paper!
Farshad Kooti (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems), Haeryun Yang (KAIST), Meeyoung Cha (KAIST), Krishna P. Gummadi (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems), Winter A. Mason (Stevens Institute of Technology)

185: Modeling Diffusion in Social Networks Using Network Properties
Minh-Duc Luu, Ee-Peng Lim, Tuan-Anh Hoang, Freddy Chong Tat Chua (Singapore Management University)

55: The YouTube Social Network
Mirjam Wattenhofer (Google), Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich) and Zack Zhu (ETH Zurich)

12:10 - 13:00

Lightning 3 (Connections & Interactions; Politics & News)

Session Chair: Munmun De Choudhury (Microsoft Research)

Each lightning session starts with a boaster presentation (1 minute per paper), followed by 50 minutes where all attendees get to visit the presented poster paper (full papers).

234: On the Study of Social Interactions in Twitter
Sofus A. Macskassy (ISI, USC)

241: Youth and Privacy in Networked Publics: Active and Complex Engagement
Zeynep Tufekci (University of North Carolina)

139: Automatic Versus Human Navigation in Information Networks
Robert West, Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)

245: The Length of Bridge Ties: Structural and Geographic Properties of Online Social Interactions
Yana Volkovich (Barcelona Media), Salvatore Scellato (University of Cambridge), David Laniado (Barcelona Media), Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge), Andreas Kaltenbrunner (Barcelona Media)

90: #bias: Measuring the Tweeting Behavior of Propagandists
Cristian Lumezanu (NEC Laboratories), Nick Feamster (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Hans Klein (Georgia Institute of Technology)

282: Modeling Polarizing Topics: When Do Different Political Communities Respond Differently to the Same News?
Ramnath Balasubramanyan (Carnegie Mellon University), William W. Cohen (Carnegie Mellon University), Doug Pierce (Rutgers University), David P. Redlawsk (Rutgers University)

324: The Pulse of News in Social Media: Forecasting Popularity
Roja Bandari (UCLA), Sitaram Asur (HP Labs) and Bernardo A. Huberman (HP Labs)

253: Hiding in Plain Sight: A Tale of Trust and Mistrust inside a Community of Citizen Reporters
Eni Mustafaraj (Wellesley College), Panagiotis Metaxas (Wellesley College), Samantha Finn (Wellesley College), Andrés Monroy-Hernández (Microsoft Research)

13:00 - 14:30

Attendees are on their own for lunch. An optional tour of the Science Gallery will be given by Ian Brunswick at 1:30 (there is also a café in this venue for lunch before or after the tour).

14:30 - 15:30

Robin Dunbar, University of Oxford (Keynote)

Why Facebook Won't Get You Any More Friends

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee

The coffee break will be held in the Knowledge Exchange Area on Level 2. Coffee, tea, soft drinks, water and light snacks will be served.

16:00 - 17:15

Oral 6 (Learning & Information Seeking)

Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research)

250: So.cl: An Interest Network for Informal Learning Best Paper Candidate!
Shelly D. Farnham, Michal Lahav, David Raskino, Lili Cheng, Steven Ickman, Tom Laird-McConnell (Microsoft Research)

262: Grassroots Professional Development: How Teachers Use Twitter Best Paper Candidate!
Andrea Forte, Melissa Humphreys, Thomas Park (Drexel University)

134: SearchBuddies: Bringing Search Engines into the Conversation
Brent Hecht (Northwestern University), Jaime Teevan (Microsoft Research), Meredith Ringel Morris (Microsoft Research) and Dan Liebling (Microsoft Research)

17:15-17:30

Awards and Closing Remarks

The End

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