Social Responses to Media Technologies in the 21st Century: The Media are Social Actors Paradigm

21st Century Search and Recommendation: Exploiting Personalisation and Social Media

Using the Internet to find information and interesting content is now one of the most common tasks performed on a computer. Up until recently, search algorithms returned only one-size-fits-all rankings, resulting in very poor performance for ambiguous search queries. Recent work has demonstrated that contextual information such as the interests of the searcher can be utilised to provide more ac...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

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...

Software Actors for Continuous Social Media Analysis

Social media analysis is rapidly becoming a widespread tool for various applications. Motivations for interest range from commercial marketing to the monitoring of social trends and political opinions. This work presents an actorbased platform, augmented with machine learning algorithms. To evaluate its possible application for the continuous analysis of social media streams, we also present a ...

Confessional technologies of the self: From Seneca to social media