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Fetishizing Food in Digital Age: #foodporn Around the World
What food is so good as to be considered pornographic? Worldwide, the popular #foodporn hashtag has been used to share appetizing pictures of peoples' favorite culinary experiences. But social scientists ask whether #foodporn ...
Ensembles based on the Rich-Club and how to use them to build soft-communities
Ensembles of networks are used as null-models to discriminate network structures. We present an efficient algorithm, based on the maximal entropy method to generate network ensembles defined by the degree sequence and the ...
An exploration of fetish social networks and communities
Online Social Networks (OSNs) provide a venue for virtual interactions and relationships between individuals. In some communities, OSNs also facilitate arranging online meetings and relationships. FetLife, the worlds largest ...
Core-biased random walks in complex networks
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-01-23)
A simple strategy to explore a network is to use a random-walk where the walker jumps from one node to an adjacent node at random. It is known that biasing the random jump, the walker can explore every walk of the same ...
Network Null Model based on Maximal Entropy and the Rich-Club
(Oxford University Press, 2012-10-08)
We present a method to construct a network null-model based on the maximum entropy principle and where the restrictions that the rich-club and the degree sequence impose are conserved. We show that the probability that two ...
Multilink Communities of Multiplex Networks
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-03-20)
Multiplex networks describe a large number of complex social, biological and transportation networks where a set of nodes is connected by links of different nature and connotation. Here we uncover the rich community structure ...
Evolution of Directed Triangle Motifs in the Google+ OSN
Motifs are a fundamental building block and distinguishing feature of networks. While characteristic motif distribution have been found in many networks, very little is known today about the evolution of network motifs. ...
Human-Data Interaction: The Human Face of the Data-Driven Society
The increasing generation and collection of personal data has created a complex ecosystem, often collaborative but sometimes combative, around companies and individuals engaging in the use of these data. We propose that ...
Anatomy of the Third-Party Web Tracking Ecosystem
The presence of third-party tracking on websites has become customary. However, our understanding of the third-party ecosystem is still very rudimentary. We examine third-party trackers from a geographical perspective, ...
Temporal Mental Health Dynamics on Social Media
(ACL, 2020)
We describe a set of experiments for building a temporal mental health dynamics system. We utilise a pre-existing methodology for distant-supervision of mental health data mining from social media platforms and deploy the ...