Academic social networking sites (SNS), such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate, seek to bring the benefits of online social networking to academics’ professional lives. Online academic social networking offers the potential to revolutionise academic publishing, foster novel collaborations, and empower academics to develop their professional identities online. However, the role that such sites pl...

We have previously proposed to implement a social network-based recommendation system that uses data from and interfaces with the BoardGameGeek (BGG) website. The end result system will be usable by members of BGG to get recommendations given both their ratings history and their friend relationships. This report details the steps that we have taken so far and the steps that still need to be don...

The study aims to understand how the characteristics of online social network structure (tie strength, network density, network centrality and homophily, etc.) can impact consumer purchase intention through network involvement. This study focuses on social promotion sites (social commerce sites) like TicketMonster which is the most popular deal-of-the-day website in South Korea etc. These sites...

The digital information era has allowed increasing online deception opportunities. In addition, the performance of detecting deception has been no better than chance in face-to-face communication, and is reported to be even worse in computer-mediated communication (CMC). Thus, there is a great need to uncover effective cues to deception in CMC. Online interaction weaves an implicit social netwo...

With the rapid growth of online social networks, massive information are produced and shared daily. Information retrieval in online social network is quite different with it in traditional web. Users in online social network often set their data to a limit range of audience, which put forward a requirement of access control in search engine. The access control issue is one of the main challenge...

The popularity of theWeb has allowed individuals to communicate and interact with each other on a global scale: people connect both to close friends and acquaintances, creating ties that can bridge otherwise separated groups of people. Recent evidence suggests that spatial distance is still affecting social links established on online platforms, with online ties preferentially connecting closer...

In an attempt to leverage the profile information people maintain on social network platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+, many web sites and online services encourage users to register and log-in using these profiles. Despite the common adoption of this feature by online services, it is not clear whether they should integrate with social network platforms. On one hand, integration ...

Online social networks and publication of social network data has led to the risk of leakage of confidential information of individuals. This requires the preservation of privacy before such network data is published by service providers. Privacy in online social networks data has been of utmost concern in recent years. Hence, the research in this field is still in its early years. Several publ...

abstract: the objective of this paper is to measure and explain the relationship between facebook users’ social capital and their political participation in real world. following political changes in the world and in the middle east, there are growing interest among researchers to work on political participation and facebook usage. we therefore developed this interest into this research paper i...

The emergence of online platforms allowing to mix self publishing activities and social networking offers new possibilities for building online reputation and visibility. In this paper we present a method to analyze the online popularity that takes into consideration both the success of the published content and the social network topology. First, we adapt the Kohonen self organizing maps in or...