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Program

Covid19 updates.

Considering the current circumstances, the impact of the pandemic and ongoing travel bans, SocInfo2020 will be a fully online conference in the originally scheduled dates of October 6-9, 2020. In order to attend the conference correctly, please ensure to use the Zoom Client for Meetings desktop application (version 5.3.1 or higher)

Day 1 - 6 October 2020

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Day 2 - 7 October 2020

Pacific Time
(GMT-7)		 Eastern Time
(GMT-4)		 Shanghai Time
(GMT+8)		 Sydney Time
(GMT+10)		 CET
(GMT+2)		 Day 2
(CET)		 Program
23:30 02:30 14:30 16:30 08:30 8:30-9:00 Joining the Zoom meeting
00:00 03:00 15:00 17:00 09:00 9:00-9:15 Opening/Welcome
00:15 03:15 15:15 17:15 09:15 9:15-10:15 Keynote Speaker: Bruno Lepri
[chair: Fosca Giannotti]
01:15 04:15 16:15 18:15 10:15 10:15-10:30 Coffee break
01:30 04:30 16:30 18:30 10:30 10:30-11:50 Session 1: four regular talks
[chair: Luca Pappalardo]
02:50 05:50 17:50 19:50 11:50 11:50-12:00 Break
03:00 06:00 18:00 20:00 12:00 12:00-13:00 Lightning talks
[chair: Vasiliki Voukelatou]
04:20 07:20 19:20 21:20 13:20 13:20-14:30 Lunch break
05:30 08:30 20:30 22:30 14:30 14:30-15:30 Keynote Speaker: Leticia Bode
[chair: Kalina Bontcheva]
06:30 09:30 21:30 23:30 15:30 15:30-16:00 Coffee break
07:00 10:00 22:00 00:00 16:00 16:00-17:20 Session 2: four regular talks
[chair: Kalina Bontcheva]
Session 1 (talks in order)
  • Isabelle van der Vegt and Bennett Kleinberg
    • Women worry about family, men about the economy: Gender differences in emotional responses to COVID-19
  • Rahul Goel and Rajesh Sharma
    • Understanding The #MeToo Movement Through The Lens Of The Twitter
  • Xinchen Yu, Shashidhar Reddy Daida, Jeremy Boy and Lingzi Hong
    • The Effect of Structural Affinity on the Diffusion of a Transnational Online Movement: the Case of #MeToo
  • Jeewoo Yoon, Jungseock Joo, Eunil Park and Jinyoung Han
    • Cross-domain Classification of Facial Appearance of Leaders
Session 2 (talks in order)
  • Negar Mokhberian, Andres Abeliuk, Patrick Cummings and Kristina Lerman
    • Moral Framing and Ideological Bias of News
  • Chereen Shurafa, Kareem Darwish and Wajdi Zaghouani
    • Political Framing: US COVID19 Blame Game
  • Grégoire Burel, Tracie Farrell, Prashant Khare and Harith Alani
    • Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-Checking Content during the Covid-19 Pandemic
  • Aman Tyagi, Anjalie Field, Priyank Lathwal, Yulia Tsvetkov and Kathleen M. Carley - best paper nomination
    • A Computational Analysis of Polarization on Indian and Pakistani Social Media

Day 3 - 8 October 2020

Pacific Time
(GMT-7)		 Eastern Time
(GMT-4)		 Shanghai Time
(GMT+8)		 Sydney Time
(GMT+10)		 CET
(GMT+2)		 Day 3 (CET) Program
23:30 02:30 14:30 16:30 08:30 8:30-9:00 Joining the Zoom meeting
00:00 03:00 15:00 17:00 09:00 9:00-9:15 Welcome/housekeeping
00:15 03:15 15:15 17:15 09:15 9:15-10:15 Session 3: three regular talks
[chair: Samin Aref]
01:15 04:15 16:15 18:15 10:15 10:15-10:30 Coffee break
01:30 04:30 16:30 18:30 10:30 10:30-11:50 Session 4: four regular talks
[chair: Giulio Rossetti]
02:50 05:50 17:50 19:50 11:50 11:50-12:00 Break
03:00 06:00 18:00 20:00 12:00 12:00-13:20 Poster session
[chair: Vasiliki Voukelatou]
Best poster+lightning vote
04:20 07:20 19:20 21:20 13:20 13:20-14:30 Lunch break
05:30 08:30 20:30 22:30 14:30 14:30-15:30 Keynote Speaker: Virginia Dignum
[chair: Dino Pedreschi]
06:30 09:30 21:30 23:30 15:30 15:30-16:00 Coffee break
07:00 10:00 22:00 00:00 16:00 16:00-17:20 Session 5: four regular talks
[chair: Remy Cazabet]
Session 3 (talks in order)
  • Helen Senefonte, Gabriel Frizzo, Myriam Delgado, Ricardo Luders, Daniel Silver and Thiago Silva
    • Regional Influences on Tourists Mobility Through the Lens of Social Sensing
  • Pavlos Paraskevopoulos, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella and Marco Conti
    • Dynamics of scientific collaboration networks due to academic migrations
  • Yichen Wang, Shuo Zhang, Xu Han and Qin Lv
    • Jump on the Bandwagon? - Characterizing Bandwagon Phenomenon in Online NBA Fan Communities
Session 4 (talks in order)
  • Seungbae Kim and Jinyoung Han
    • Detecting Engagement Bots on Social Influencer Marketing
  • Guanyi Mou and Kyumin Lee
    • Malicious Bot Detection in Online Social Networks: Arming Handcrafted Features with Deep Learning
  • Philipp Koncar and Denis Helic - best paper nomination
    • Employee Satisfaction in Online Reviews
  • Alessandra Urbinati, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Alessandro Rosina, Andrea Bonanomi, Ciro Cattuto and Daniela Paolotti
    • Young Adult Unemployment Through the Lens of Social Media: Italy as a Case Study
Session 5 (talks in order)
  • Michael Bailey, Theresa Kuchler, Dominic Russel, Bogdan State and Johannes Stroebel
    • The Determinants of Social Connectedness in Europe
  • Yelena Mejova and Víctor Suarez-Lledó - best paper nomination
    • Impact of Online Health Awareness Campaign: Case of National Eating Disorders Association
  • Elizaveta Sivak and Ivan Smirnov
    • Measuring adolescents well - being: correspondence of naïve digital traces to survey data
  • Lushi Chen, Walid Magdy, Heather Whalley and Maria Klara Wolters
    • It’s Not Just About Sad Songs: The Effect of Depression on Posting Lyrics and Quotes

Day 4 - 9 October 2020

Pacific Time
(GMT-7)		 Eastern Time
(GMT-4)		 Shanghai Time
(GMT+8)		 Sydney Time
(GMT+10)		 CET
(GMT+2)		 Day 4
(CET)		  Program
23:30 02:30 14:30 16:30 08:30 8:30-9:00 Joining the Zoom meeting
00:00 03:00 15:00 17:00 09:00 9:00-9:15 Best paper, best poster+lightning,
and best reviewer announcement
00:15 03:15 15:15 17:15 09:15 9:15-10:15 Session 6: three regular talks
[chair: Francesco Grisolia]
01:15 04:15 16:15 18:15 10:15 10:15-10:30 Coffee break
01:30 04:30 16:30 18:30 10:30 10:30-11:50 Session 7: four regular talks
[chair: Marco Braghieri]
02:50 05:50 17:50 19:50 11:50 11:50-12:00 Break
03:00 06:00 18:00 20:00 12:00 12:00-13:20 Session 8: four regular talks
[chair: Marco De Nadai]
04:20 07:20 19:20 21:20 13:20 13:20-14:30 Lunch break
05:30 08:30 20:30 22:30 14:30 14:30-15:30 Keynote Speaker: Alessandro Vespignani
[chair: Frank Dignum]
06:30 09:30 21:30 23:30 15:30 15:30-16:00 Coffee break
07:00 10:00 22:00 00:00 16:00 16:00-17:00 Session 9: three regular talks
[chair: Frank Dignum]
08:00 11:00 23:00 01:00 17:00 17:00-17:30 Closing Remarks
Session 6 (talks in order)
  • Kilian Ollivier, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella and Marco Conti
    • Structural invariants in individuals language use: the "ego network" of words
  • Ryohei Hisano, Hiroshi Iyetomi, and Takayuki Mizuno
    • Identifying the Hierarchical Influence Structure Behind Smart Sanctions Using Network Analysis
  • Saransh Khandelwal and Aurobinda Routray
    • Coverage and Evolution of Cancer and its Risk Factors - A quantitative study with Social Signals and Web-Data
Session 7 (talks in order)
  • Nikolaos Lykousas, Fran Casino and Constantinos Patsakis
    • Inside the x-rated world of "premium" social media accounts
  • Arthur Capozzi, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Yelena Mejova, Corrado Monti, Andre Panisson and Daniela Paolotti - best paper nomination
    • Facebook Ads: Politics of Migration in Italy
  • Divi Galih Prasetyo Putri, Marco Viviani and Gabriella Pasi
    • Social Search and Task-related Relevance Dimensions in Microblogging Sites
  • Thilini Wijesiriwardene, Hale Inan, Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Valerie L. Shalin, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Amit Sheth and I. Budak Arpinar
    • ALONE: A Dataset for Toxic Behavior among Adolescents on Twitter
Session 8 (talks in order)
  • Gabriel Peres Nobre, Carlos Henrique Gomes Ferreira and Jussara Marques de Almeida
    • Beyond Groups: Uncovering Dynamic Communities on the WhatsApp Network of Information Dissemination
  • Gal Shahaf, Ehud Shapiro and Nimrod Talmon
    • Genuine Personal Identifiers and Mutual Sureties for Sybil-Resilient Community Growth
  • Boxuan Li, Martin Carrington and Peter Marbach
    • Stable Community Structures and Social Exclusion
  • Gaurav Koley, Jayati Deshmukh and Srinath Srinivasa - best paper nomination
    • Social Capital as Engagement and Belief Revision
Session 9 (talks in order)
  • Mohamed Barbouch, Frank W. Takes and Suzan Verberne
    • Combining Language Models and Network Features for Relevance-based Tweet Classification
  • Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Abdelali, Sabit Hassan and Kareem Darwish
    • Spam Detection on Arabic Twitter
  • Sumin Han, Kinam Park and Dongman Lee
    • Discovering Daily POI Exploitation using a LTECell Tower Access Trace in Urban Environment
For any doubt or clarification, you can contact daniele.fadda[at]isti.cnr.it
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