Historically, social scientists have sought out explanations of human and social phenomena
that provide interpretable causal mechanisms, while often ignoring their predictive accuracy …

The deluge of digital information in our daily life—from user-generated content, such as
microblogs and scientific papers, to online business, such as viral marketing and advertising …

On many social networking web sites such as Facebook and Twitter, resharing or reposting
functionality allows users to share others' content with their own friends or followers. As …

Information cascades, effectively facilitated by most social network platforms, are recognized
as a major factor in almost every social success and disaster in these networks. Can …

Viral products and ideas are intuitively understood to grow through a person-to-person
diffusion process analogous to the spread of an infectious disease; however, until recently it …

Abstract Enabled by Web 2.0 technology, social media has revolutionised the way
organisations communicate with their audiences by allowing a two-way interaction between …

Echo chambers in online social networks, in which users prefer to interact only with
ideologically-aligned peers, are believed to facilitate misinformation spreading and …

Effectively predicting the size of an information cascade is critical for many applications
spanning from identifying viral marketing and fake news to precise recommendation and …

In order to explore the relationship between politics-related sentiment and FTSE 100
movements, we conducted a short-window event study of a UK based political event. We …

The pervasiveness of abusive content on the internet can lead to severe psychological and
physical harm. Significant effort in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research has been …