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Community detection in online social networks is typically based on the analysis of the explicit connections between users, such as "friends" on Facebook and "followers" on Twitter. But online users often have hundreds or even thousands of such connections, and many...

BIG data is suddenly everywhere. Everyone seems to be collecting it, analyzing it, making money from it and celebrating (or fearing) its powers. Whether we’re talking about analyzing zillions of Google search queries to predict flu outbreaks, or zillions of phone...

Call for Submissions: Papers (extended abstracts), Panels and Posters 2014 SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY CONFERENCE (#SMSociety14) September 27-28, 2014, Toronto, Canada Conference website: http://SocialMediaAndSociety.com/ KEYNOTE: Keith N. Hampton, Rutgers University...

Call for abstracts First European Social Networks Conference Barcelona, July 1-4, 2014 www.eusn.orgDear colleagues, We now invite you to submit abstracts of paper presentations and posters to the First European Social Networks Conference (EUSN), to be held 1 to 4 July...

NetSci2014 organizers are delighted to invite submissions for Multiple Network Modeling, Analysis and Mining 2nd Edition - Satellite Symposium at NetSci2014 taking place in Berkeley at the Clark Kerr Campus of the University of California, on June 2-3, 2014....

Recent advances on human dynamics have focused on the normal patterns of human activities, with the quantitative understanding of human behavior under extreme events remaining a crucial missing chapter. This has a wide array of potential applications, ranging from...

Why do some terrorist groups survive considerably longer than others? The literature is just beginning to address this important question in a systematic manner. Additionally, and as with most studies of terrorism, longevity studies have ignored the possibility of...

A great special issue on social networks appeared in December in the Journal of Mathematical Psychology (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00222496/57). It contains methodological articles relating to relational event and other dynamic models, and snowball...

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Interesting article from the NY Times about Keith Hampton & associates' studies of behavior in public space. Building on Wm H Whyte's research http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/magazine/technology-is-not-driving-us-apart-after-all.html?from=magazine "Hampton...