In recent years, blogging has become an exploding passion among Internet communities.
By combining the grassroots blogging with the richness of expression available in video …

Weblogs, or Blogs, have facilitated people to express their thoughts, voice their opinions,
and share their experiences and ideas. Individuals experience a sense of community, a …

On many social networking web sites such as Facebook and Twitter, resharing or reposting
functionality allows users to share others' content with their own friends or followers. As …

In recent years, social media are said to have an impact on the public discourse and
communication in the society. In particular, social media are increasingly used in political …

There is a widespread intuitive sense that different kinds of information spread differently on-
line, but it has been difficult to evaluate this question quantitatively since it requires a setting …

Information diffusion and virus propagation are fundamental processes taking place in
networks. While it is often possible to directly observe when nodes become infected with a …

Online content exhibits rich temporal dynamics, and diverse realtime user generated content
further intensifies this process. However, temporal patterns by which online content grows …

Tracking new topics, ideas, and" memes" across the Web has been an issue of considerable
interest. Recent work has developed methods for tracking topic shifts over long time scales …

A number of predictors have been suggested to detect the most influential spreaders of
information in online social media across various domains such as Twitter or Facebook. In …

Why doesn't your home page appear on the first page of search results, even when you
query your own name? How do other web pages always appear at the top? What creates …