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- research-articleApril 2024
Dismantling Gender Blindness in Online Discussion of a Crime/Gender Dichotomy
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 8, Issue CSCW1Article No.: 195, Pages 1–31https://doi.org/10.1145/3653686Contemporary 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 ...
- research-articleOctober 2020
Studying Politeness across Cultures using English Twitter and Mandarin Weibo
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 4, Issue CSCW2Article No.: 119, Pages 1–15https://doi.org/10.1145/3415190Modeling 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 ...
- research-articleDecember 2017
Understanding Relationship Overlapping on Social Network Sites: A Case Study of Weibo and Douban
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 1, Issue CSCWArticle No.: 120, Pages 1–18https://doi.org/10.1145/3134755Nowadays 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 ...
- research-articleDecember 2017
Managing Disruptive Behavior through Non-Hierarchical Governance: Crowdsourcing in League of Legends and Weibo
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 1, Issue CSCWArticle No.: 62, Pages 1–17https://doi.org/10.1145/3134697Disruptive 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 ...
- abstractApril 2016
Topical differences between Chinese language Twitter and Sina Weibo
WWW '16 Companion: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide WebApril 2016, Pages 625–628https://doi.org/10.1145/2872518.2890562Sina 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 ...
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- Work in ProgressApril 2015
A Taxonomy for Classifying Questions Asked in Social Question and Answering
CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2015, Pages 1947–1952https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732928The 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 ...
- research-articleNovember 2014
WeiboStand: capturing Chinese breaking news using Weibo "tweets"
LBSN '14: Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social NetworksNovember 2014, Pages 41–48https://doi.org/10.1145/2755492.2755499Weibo 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 ...
- research-articleSeptember 2014
Comparing the pulses of categorical hot events in Twitter and Weibo
HT '14: Proceedings of the 25th ACM conference on Hypertext and social mediaSeptember 2014, Pages 126–135https://doi.org/10.1145/2631775.2631810The 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., ...
- research-articleAugust 2014
Rumors detection in chinese via crowd responses
ASONAM '14: Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and MiningAugust 2014, Pages 912–917In 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 ...
- posterApril 2014
Predicting potential responders in social Q&A based on non-QA features
CHI EA '14: CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2014, Pages 2131–2136https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581366Given 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 ...
- research-articleApril 2014
Humour reactions in crisis: a proximal analysis of Chinese posts on sina weibo in reaction to the salt panic of march 2011
- Gareth Paul Beeston,
- Manuel Leon Urrutia,
- Caroline Halcrow,
- Xianni Xiao,
- Lu Liu,
- Jinchuan Wang,
- Jinho Jay Kim,
- Kunwoo Park
WWW '14 Companion: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide WebApril 2014, Pages 1043–1048https://doi.org/10.1145/2567948.2579209This 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 ...
- posterApril 2014
Tag propagation based recommendation across diverse social media
WWW '14 Companion: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide WebApril 2014, Pages 407–408https://doi.org/10.1145/2567948.2577285Many 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 ...
- ArticleOctober 2013
Discovering Massive High-Value Users from Sina Weibo Based on Quality and Activity
CYBERC '13: Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge DiscoveryOctober 2013, Pages 214–220https://doi.org/10.1109/CyberC.2013.42This 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 ...
- research-articleAugust 2013
Detect inflated follower numbers in OSN using star sampling
ASONAM '13: Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and MiningAugust 2013, Pages 127–133https://doi.org/10.1145/2492517.2492662The 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 ...
- demonstrationAugust 2013
SEA: a system for event analysis on chinese tweets
KDD '13: Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data miningAugust 2013, Pages 1498–1501https://doi.org/10.1145/2487575.2487719Recent 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 ...
- ArticleJuly 2013
Tracing technology diffusion of social media with culturally localized user experience approach
DUXU'13: Proceedings of the Second international conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability: health, learning, playing, cultural, and cross-cultural user experience - Volume Part IIJuly 2013, Pages 115–120https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39241-2_14This 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 ...
- research-articleFebruary 2013
Factors influencing the response rate in social question and answering behavior
CSCW '13: Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative workFebruary 2013, Pages 1263–1274https://doi.org/10.1145/2441776.2441918With 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 ...
- ArticleNovember 2012
Predicting retweet behavior in weibo social network
WISE'12: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Web Information Systems EngineeringNovember 2012, Pages 737–743https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35063-4_60Retweeting 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 ...
- ArticleNovember 2012
Logical model of relationship for online social networks and performance optimizing of queries: WISE 2012 challenge - T1: performance track scalability winner
WISE'12: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Web Information Systems EngineeringNovember 2012, Pages 726–736https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35063-4_59Sina 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. ...
- demonstrationAugust 2012
MoodLens: an emoticon-based sentiment analysis system for chinese tweets
KDD '12: Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data miningAugust 2012, Pages 1528–1531https://doi.org/10.1145/2339530.2339772Recent 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. ...