Contemporary social scientific scholarship is being transformed by the challenges
associated with the changing nature of, and responses to, questions of crime, security and …

Abstract Background The EU promotes 'Open Science'as a public good. Complementary to
its implementation is Citizen Science, which redefines the relationship between the scientific …

Important work rooted in psychological theory posits that health behavior change occurs
through a series of discrete stages. Our work builds on the field of social computing by …

We are governed by digital algorithms in multifarious ways. Yet, despite this diversity, this
chapter argues that there is a shared discernible mode of governing enacted by digital …

Drug abuse continues to accelerate towards becoming the most severe public health
problem in the United States. The ability to detect drug-abuse risk behavior at a population …

Understanding tobacco-and alcohol-related behavioral patterns is critical for uncovering risk
factors and potentially designing targeted social computing intervention systems. Given that …

Drug abuse continues to accelerate toward becoming the most severe public health problem
in the United States. The ability to detect drug abuse risk behavior at a population scale …

The rise in the use of social networks in the recent years has resulted in an abundance of
information on different aspects of everyday social activities that is available online, with the …

The hazardous and harmful use of alcohol has become a public health issue worldwide.
Social media has emerged as a reliable source to extract information on alcohol …

In the introduction, I lay out all my thoughts about the way I see data and modeling being
framed. I go into detail about all the facets of modeling and of data that I see as relevant to …