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 …

News articles are extremely time sensitive by nature. There is also intense competition
among news items to propagate as widely as possible. Hence, the task of predicting the …

Social media platforms have democratized the process of web content creation allowing
mere consumers to become creators and distributors of content. But this has also contributed …

This paper presents a study of the life cycle of news articles posted online. We describe the
interplay between website visitation patterns and social media reactions to news content …

Content popularity prediction finds application in many areas, including media advertising,
content caching, movie revenue estimation, traffic management and macro-economic trends …

Creating, placing, and presenting social media content is a difficult problem. In addition to
the quality of the content itself, several factors such as the way the content is presented (the …

Online content providers, such as news portals and social media platforms, constantly seek
new ways to attract large shares of online attention by keeping their users engaged. A …

Controversial posts are those that split the preferences of a community, receiving both
significant positive and significant negative feedback. Our inclusion of the word" community" …

Besonders danken möchte ich meinem Büro-Kollegen Dr. Mathias Weber, der meine Hoch-
und vor allem Tiefphasen im Entstehungsprozess dieser Arbeit mit unerschütterlicher …

With the profusion of web content, researchers have avidly studied and proposed new
approaches to enable the anticipation of its impact on social media, presenting many distinct …