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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kissing Cuisines: Exploring Worldwide Culinary Habits on the Web
Food and nutrition occupy an increasingly prevalent space on the web, and dishes and recipes shared online provide an invaluable mirror into culinary cultures and attitudes around the world. More specifically, ingredients, ...
Beyond the rich-club: Properties of networks related to the better connected nodes
(2018-10-29)
Many of the structural characteristics of a network depend on the connectivity with and within the hubs. These dependencies can be related to the degree of a node and the number of links that a node shares with nodes of ...