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Cascades on Online Social Networks: A Chronological Account

Cascades on Online Social Networks: A Chronological Account

A paper presented at the 4th Internet Science Conference (INSCI2017).
Thessaloniki, Greece, November 2017

Nora Alrajebah

November 24, 2017
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  1. Cascades on Online Social
    Networks: A Chronological Account
    Nora Alrajebah, Thanassis Tiropanis, Leslie Carr

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  2. #5JQTV*KUVQT[QH150U

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  3. The core affordances
    of OSNs

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  4. 1. Connect to others
    Follow
    Friend

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  5. 2. Create content

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  6. 5QQPCHVGT

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  7. 3. Express admiration
    favourite, like a.k.a. heart

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  8. 4. Spread content
    re += {tweet | blog | path} && share

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  10. %CUECFGU

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  11. cascades are considered as an artefact
    to study information diffusion on OSN
    They are the manifestation of the
    information diffusion process

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  12. The two facets of a cascade
    Structural Temporal
    Who influenced whom to
    spread the content
    How many shares are there at
    any point in time (Day/Hour)
    0!
    6!
    12!
    18!
    24!
    30!
    0! 2! 4! 6! 8! 10!
    Number of shares!
    Days after publishing!

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  13. Paper TOC
    Our paper answers the following questions about cascades:
    1. What are they? definitions ..
    2. What is their significance?
    3. How cascade networks are constructed?
    4. What are the effects of the content type and the available data on
    cascade construction approaches?
    5. What features we can use to analyse cascades? i.e., how can we
    quantify cascades?

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  14. Paper TOC
    Our paper answers the following questions about cascades:
    1. What are they? definitions ..
    2. What is their significance?
    3. How cascade networks are constructed?
    4. What are the effects of the content type and the available data on
    cascade construction approaches?
    5. What features we can use to analyse cascades? i.e., how can we
    quantify cascades?

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  15. Why analysing cascades is important?
    1. A proxy to unravel the way information is spread
    on the Web
    2. Estimate influence and homophily between users
    3. Estimate the value of the content
    4.They are better indicators of users’ interest and
    trust networks
    5.Explain social network evolution

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  16. Purposes for Studying Cascades
    Cascade Analysis
    Tracking Quantifying
    Predicting Modeling
    Constructing
    Inferring
    Structural
    Temporal
    Numerical

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  17. Purposes for Studying Cascades
    Cascade Analysis
    Tracking Quantifying
    Predicting Modeling
    Constructing
    Inferring
    Structural
    Temporal
    Numerical

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  18. Constructing a ‘Cascade’ Network
    Cascades construction approaches
    Collective cascades Single cascade
    Platform-
    defined
    Forest
    Generic
    Tree/ Forest
    Forest
    Content
    type
    Network
    topology
    Platform-
    defined
    Generic

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  19. Cascade Analysis
    Tracking Quantifying
    Predicting Modeling
    Constructing
    Inferring
    Structural
    Temporal
    Numerical
    Purposes for Studying Cascades

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  20. Cascade Features
    Cascade Features
    Structural Temporal
    Cascade-centric
    Node-centric
    Other
    Burstiness/Growth
    Recurrence

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  21. Wrapping up ..
    • Cascades matter!
    • Platforms & content types matter!
    • They affect how data about cascades can be
    collected, prepared and analysed
    • Research tasks are affected (challenged!) by
    them

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  22. 6JCPMU

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