Digital Intermediaries: More than New Actors on a Crowded Media Stage

Media Matter: But "Old" Media May Matter More Than "New" Media.

An unusual, giant and benign condylomaacuminatum lesion on the genital area for more than a decade

Condyloma acuminatum, is a rare sexually transmitted disease. The virus responsible for condyloma is human papillomavirus. HPV-6 and HPV-11 are the most commonly detected HPV genotypes, but at least 20 other HPV genotypes have occasionally been found in genital wart tissue specimens. In fact genital HPV infection is common among sexually active populations. This disease may occur at any age af...

Tutorial: Identifying Malicious Actors on Social Media

Online social media platforms are severely compromised by the existence of malicious actors such as bots on Twitter, vandals on Wikipedia, fake accounts on Facebook, trolls on Twitter and Slashdot, and spammers who seem to be omnipresent. This tutorial presents methods to identify malicious actors in at least 4 settings: Twitter, Facebook, Slashdot, and Wikipedia. We will look at 4 broad catego...

More Than A Craze: Photographs of New Zealand's early digital games scene

"More Than A Craze" is an online exhibition consisting of 46 photographs of New Zealand's early digital games scene, in the 1980s. The exhibition includes the work of some of New Zealand's best known documentary photographers – Ans Westra, Christopher Matthews, Robin Morrison – with images from the archives of Wellington's Evening Post and Auckland's Fairfax newspapers. These photographers capt...

Are Social Media more Social than Media? Measuring Ideological Homophily and Segregation on Twitter∗

Social media represent a rapidly growing source of information for citizens around the world. In this paper, we measure the degree of ideological homophily and segregation on social media. In particular, we construct a network based upon links between politically-engaged users and find that the network exhibits previously documented homophily patterns in offline social networks. Likewise, the d...