Search Results - "Onur Varol"

The spread of low-credibility content by social bots by Shao, Chengcheng, Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca, Varol, Onur, Yang, Kai-Cheng, Flammini, Alessandro, Menczer, Filippo

“…The massive spread of digital misinformation has been identified as a major threat to democracies. Communication, cognitive, social, and computer scientists…”
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Misinformation, believability, and vaccine acceptance over 40 countries: Takeaways from the initial phase of the COVID-19 infodemic by Singh, Karandeep, Lima, Gabriel, Cha, Meeyoung, Cha, Chiyoung, Kulshrestha, Juhi, Ahn, Yong-Yeol, Varol, Onur

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has been damaging to the lives of people all around the world. Accompanied by the pandemic is an infodemic, an abundant and uncontrolled…”
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Early detection of promoted campaigns on social media by Varol, Onur, Ferrara, Emilio, Menczer, Filippo, Flammini, Alessandro

“…Social media expose millions of users every day to information campaigns - some emerging organically from grassroots activity, others sustained by advertising…”
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Unsupervised detection of coordinated fake-follower campaigns on social media by Zouzou, Yasser, Varol, Onur

“…Automated social media accounts, known as bots, are increasingly recognized as key tools for manipulative online activities. These activities can stem from…”
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Academic support network reflects doctoral experience and productivity by Seckin, Ozgur Can, Varol, Onur

“…Current practices of quantifying academic performance by productivity raise serious concerns about the psychological well-being of graduate students. These…”
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First public dataset to study 2023 Turkish general election by Najafi, Ali, Mugurtay, Nihat, Zouzou, Yasser, Demirci, Ege, Demirkiran, Serhat, Karadeniz, Huseyin Alper, Varol, Onur

“…In the context of Turkiye’s most recent parliamentary and presidential elections (“seçim” in Turkish), social media has played an important role in shaping…”
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The Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkey by Bas, Ozen, Ogan, Christine L., Varol, Onur

“…Evidence that women have paid the price of what has been labeled the “shadow pandemic” is found in the increase in violence against them. The rates of femicide…”
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Information access equality on generative models of complex networks by Wang, Xindi, Varol, Onur, Eliassi-Rad, Tina

“…It is well known that networks generated by common mechanisms such as preferential attachment and homophily can disadvantage the minority group by limiting…”
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The minute-scale dynamics of online emotions reveal the effects of affect labeling by Fan, Rui, Varol, Onur, Varamesh, Ali, Barron, Alexander, van de Leemput, Ingrid A., Scheffer, Marten, Bollen, Johan

“…Putting one’s feelings into words (also called affect labeling) can attenuate positive and negative emotions. Here, we track the evolution of specific emotions…”
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Mechanisms Driving Online Vaccine Debate During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Seckin, Ozgur Can, Atalay, Aybuke, Otenen, Ege, Duygu, Umut, Varol, Onur

“…The prevalence of the anti-vaccine movement in today’s society has become a pressing concern, largely amplified by the dissemination of vaccine skepticism…”
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How honest are the signals? A protocol for validating wearable sensors by Kayhan, Varol Onur, Chen, Zheng (Chris), French, Kimberly A., Allen, Tammy D., Salomon, Kristen, Watkins, Alison

“…There is growing interest among organizational researchers in tapping into alternative sources of data beyond self-reports to provide a new avenue for…”
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Success in books: predicting book sales before publication by Wang, Xindi, Yucesoy, Burcu, Varol, Onur, Eliassi-Rad, Tina, Barabási, Albert-László

“…Reading remains a preferred leisure activity fueling an exceptionally competitive publishing market: among more than three million books published each year,…”
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OSoMe: the IUNI observatory on social media by Davis, Clayton A, Ciampaglia, Giovanni Luca, Aiello, Luca Maria, Chung, Keychul, Conover, Michael D, Ferrara, Emilio, Flammini, Alessandro, Fox, Geoffrey C, Gao, Xiaoming, Gonçalves, Bruno, Grabowicz, Przemyslaw A, Hong, Kibeom, Hui, Pik-Mai, McCaulay, Scott, McKelvey, Karissa, Meiss, Mark R, Patil, Snehal, Peli Kankanamalage, Chathuri, Pentchev, Valentin, Qiu, Judy, Ratkiewicz, Jacob, Rudnick, Alex, Serrette, Benjamin, Shiralkar, Prashant, Varol, Onur, Weng, Lilian, Wu, Tak-Lon, Younge, Andrew J, Menczer, Filippo

“…The study of social phenomena is becoming increasingly reliant on big data from online social networks. Broad access to social media data, however, requires…”
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TurkishBERTweet: Fast and reliable large language model for social media analysis by Najafi, Ali, Varol, Onur

“…Turkish is one of the most spoken languages in the world; however, it is still among the low-resource languages. Wide us of this language on social media…”
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Should we agree to disagree about Twitter’s bot problem? by Varol, Onur

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What is gained and what is left to be done when content analysis is added to network analysis in the study of a social movement: Twitter use during Gezi Park by Ogan, Christine, Varol, Onur

“…As social movements relying on the weak ties found in social networks have spread around the world, researchers have taken several approaches to understanding…”
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Journalists on Twitter: self-branding, audiences, and involvement of bots by Varol, Onur, Uluturk, Ismail

“…Spread of news and misinformation on social networks have been a topic of extensive study in the recent years. There are concerns about the possibility of…”
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The nature, dimensionality, and effects of perceptions of community governance by Kayhan, Varol Onur

“…•The concept of community governance is examined as a verification process in wikis.•Community governance consists of community credibility and community…”
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Network medicine framework for identifying drug-repurposing opportunities for COVID-19 by Gysi, Deisy Morselli, do Valle, Ítalo, Zitnik, Marinka, Ameli, Asher, Gan, Xiao, Varol, Onur, Ghiassian, Susan Dina, Patten, J. J., Davey, Robert A., Loscalzo, Joseph, Barabási, Albert-László

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to quickly and reliably prioritize clinically approved compounds for their potential effectiveness for severe…”
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Nature’s reach: narrow work has broad impact by Gates, Alexander J., Ke, Qing, Varol, Onur, Barabási, Albert-László

“…A scientific paper today is inspired by more disciplines than ever before, shows a new analysis marking the journal’s 150th anniversary. A scientific paper…”
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