Contemporary feminists utilize social media for activism, while backlashes come along. The gender-related discourses are often diminished when addressing public events regarding sexism and gender inequality on social media platforms. The dichotomous ...

Modeling politeness across cultures helps to improve intercultural communication by uncovering what is considered appropriate and polite. We study the linguistic features associated with politeness across American English and Mandarin Chinese. First, we ...

Nowadays people have many overlapping relationships across different social network sites. Will the communication frequency of a relationship on a focal SNS increase or decrease after the corresponding parties begin interacting with each other on a new ...

Disruptive behaviors such as flaming and vandalism have been part of the Internet since its beginning. Various models of hierarchical governance have been established and managed in different online venues, with both successes and failures. Recently, a ...

Sina Weibo, China's most popular microblogging platform, is considered to be a proxy of Chinese social life. In this study, we contrast the discussions occurring on Sina Weibo and on Chinese language Twitter in order to observe two different strands of ...

The rapid advancement of Web2.0 technologies has made social networking sites, such as Facebook and twitter, important venues for individuals to seek and share information. As understanding the information needs of users is crucial for designing and ...

Weibo is the premier microblog service in China, which is nicknamed as the "Chinese Twitter". Weibo messages consist of text messages, short links, images, audio and video. Its text is restricted to 140 Chinese characters. Since Twitter is blocked in ...

The fragility and interconnectivity of the planet argue compellingly for a greater understanding of how different communities make sense of their world. One of such critical demands relies on comparing the Chinese and the rest of the world (e.g., ...

In recent years, microblogging platforms have become good places to spread various spams, making the problem of gauging information credibility on social networks receive considerable attention especially under an emergency situation. Unlike previous ...

Given the recent advancement of online social networking technologies, social question and answering has become an important venue for individuals to seek and share information. While studies have suggested the possibilities of routing questions to ...

This paper presents an analysis of humour use in Sina Weibo in reaction to the Chinese salt panic, which occurred as a result of the Fukushima disaster in March 2011. Basing the investigation on the humour Proximal Distancing Theory (PDT), and utilising ...

Many real applications demand accurate cross-domain recommendation, e.g., recommending a Weibo (the largest Chinese Twitter) user with the products in an e-commerce Web site. Since many social media have rich tags on both items or users, tag-based ...

This paper proposes a method to discover the high-value users who are both high-quality and high-activity. First, a Trust Transfer Model is introduced to capture users with high-quality in Sina Weibo that is a social web in China. Then, analysis and ...

The properties of online social networks (OSNs) are of great interests to the general public as well as IT professionals. Often the raw data are not available and the summary released by the service providers are sketchy. Thus sampling is needed to ...

Recent years have witnessed the explosive growth of online social media. Weibo, a famous "Chinese Twitter", has attracted over 0.5 billion users in less than four years, with more than 1000 tweets generated in every second. These tweets are informative ...

This paper examines two recent technology diffusion cases of social media in a global context, Facebook Japan and Sina Weibo. By tracing the local development of two social media technologies and probing into the deeper issues behind their peculiar use ...

With the increasing growth and popularity of social networking sites, social question and answering has become a venue for individuals to seek and share information. This study evaluates eleven extrinsic factors that may influence the response rate in ...

Retweeting ensures the information diffusion in micro-blog services. By this simple way, it is convenient for a user to share and spread interesting information in the whole network. In this paper, we consider many features to compute the probability ...

Sina Weibo is currently the microblogging web service with the highest number of registered users in China. As in any large social network, the relationship representation is so huge that executing queries over the network is a very challenging problem. ...

Recent years have witnessed the explosive growth of online social media. Weibo, a Twitter-like online social network in China, has attracted more than 300 million users in less than three years, with more than 1000 tweets generated in every second. ...