Research Interests
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- Complex Systems & Society
- Information Diffusion in Complex Networks
- Social Media & Political Process
- Government Transparency & Accountability
- Information Visualization
- Text Mining & Machine Learning
- Bio-Inspired Computing
- Folksonomies & Digital Stigmergy
- Swarming Behavior
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Publications
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Political Polarization on Twitter
Michael Conover, Jacob Ratkiewicz, Bruno Gonçalves, exness login & Filippo Menczer
International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2011
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Detecting and Tracking Political Abuse in Social Media
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Michael Conover, Bruno Gonçalves, Alessandro Flammini & Filippo Menczer
International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2011
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Predicting the Politial Alignment of Twitter Users
Michael Conover, Bruno Gonçalves, Jacob Ratkiewicz, Alessandro Flammini & Filippo Menczer
IEEE International Conference on Social Computing 2011
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Partisan Asymmetries in Online Political Activity
Michael Conover, Bruno Gonçalves, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
Social Networks: Special Issue on Political Networks. Invited.
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Truthy: Mapping the Spread of Astroturf in Microblog Streams
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Michael Conover, Bruno Gonçalves, Alessandro Flammini & Filippo Menczer
International World Wide Web Conference 2011
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A Linear Classifier Based on Entity Recognition Tools and a Statistical Approach to Method Extraction in the Protein-Protein Interaction Literature
Analia Lourenço, Michael Conover, Andrew Wong, Fen Pan, Alahay Abi-Haider, Azadeh Nematzadeh, Hagit Shatkay & Luis Rocha
BMC Bioinformatics
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Where Are the Academic Jobs? Interactive Exploration of Job Advertisements in Geospatial and Topical Space
Angela Zoss, Michael Conover, Katy Börner
Advances in Social Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 6007, 2010.
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A Python Framework for Topic Detection with Latent Semantic Analysis
Michael Conover & Mei Kobayashi.
IBM Technical Report. 2009.
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Advertainment: QR Codes & Japanese Mobile Phone Culture
Michael Conover. Communications of the ACM. October, 2009: p9.
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Analyzing Software Function Call Graphs Using a Two-Phase Network Growth Model
James Ma, Daniel Zeng, Michael Conover. Proceedings of the 5th exness personal area
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Talks
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Social Media and the Networked Public Sphere
Workshop on Information in Networks 2011
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Multi-mode Communication in Online Social Networks
NetSci 2011 International School and Conference on Network Science
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Counting Raindrops: An Introduction to Data Science
ICSA Catalyst 2010
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Posters
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The Political Coloring of Corporate Boards: Network Dynamics of Director Selection on the Political Slant of Corporate Interests
Derek Ruths, Bruce Kogut, Michael Conover, David Lazer
Workshop on Information in Networks 2011
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Visualizing Political Communication
Michael Conover, Bruno Gonçalves, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
Journal of Information Technology & Politics 2011: The Future of Computational Social Science
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Tracking the Spread of Political Misinformation on Twitter
Technology Demonstration of www.truthy.indiana.edu
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Michael Conover, Mark Meiss, Bruno Gonçalves, Snehal Patil, Alessandro Flammini & Filippo Menczer
International World Wide Web Conference 2011
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Book Chapters
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Abuse of Social Media and Political Manipulation
Bruno Gonçalves, Michael Conover, Filippo Menczer
The Death of the Internet: How it May Happen and How it Can be Stopped
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Awards
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- 2011 Best Student Paper Award: Honorable Mention
Political Polarization on Twitter
American Sociological Association Section on Communication & http://e-markets.com.in/exness-login
(First ever honorable mention awarded in this category.)
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Grants
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- NSF East Asia & Pacific Summer Institute 2009
IBM Tokyo Research Lab
- NSF East Asia & Pacific Summer Institute 2008
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Featured Videos
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The Truthy Project
The Wall Street Journal [link]
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Political Polarization on Twitter
International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2011 [link]
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Selected Press
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Decoding Our Chatter
The Wall Street Journal. October, 2011. [link]
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Social Scientists Wade Into the Tweet Stream
Science Magazine. September, 2011. [link]
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Twitter as Medium and Message
Communications of the ACM. March, 2011. [link]
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Tracking the 'Truthiness' of Tweets
NPR Talk of the Nation. November, 2010. [link]
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When Campaigns Manipulate Social Media
The Atlantic. November, 2010. [link]
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Twitter Tool Roots Out Disguised Mass Postings
New Scientist. October, 2010. [link]
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Curiosities
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Network Neighborhood
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