Our world has never been more connected, and the size of the social media landscape
draws a great deal of attention from academia. However, social networks are also a growing …

Influence, the ability to change the beliefs and behaviors of others, is the main currency on
social media. Extant studies of influence on social media, however, are limited by publicly …

Abstract The advent of Online Social Networks (OSNs) has offered the opportunity to study
the dynamics of information spread and influence propagation at a huge scale …

Identifying peer to peer influence in social networks is a difficult and fundamental problem in
numerous disciplines including network theory, marketing, epidemiology and diffusion …

Social networks are popular platforms for interaction, communication, and collaboration
between friends. Researchers have recently proposed an emerging class of applications …

We present a new platform to do online, social influence experiments–the Controlled, Online
Social Experimentation (CLOSE) system. We describe it's development, potential uses and …

Upon request by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), author
(s) reviewed an expansive data set of social media posts and metadata provided to SSCI by …

Recently, there has been strong interest in measuring influence in online social networks.
Different measures have been proposed to predict when individuals will adopt a new …

The confluence of technological and societal advances is changing the nature of global
terrorism. For example, engagement with Web, social media, and smart devices has the …

The spread of influence among individuals in a social network is one of the fundamental
questions in the social sciences. In this chapter we consider the main definitions of …