Michael Conover [bio]    [photo]    [vita]
Ph.D. Student, Complex Systems Analysis


Indiana University School of Informatics & Computing
Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research

From Data, Insight.
Research Interests

  • 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
Publications

  • Political Polarization on Twitter
    Michael Conover, Jacob Ratkiewicz, Bruno Gonçalves, exness login
    & Filippo Menczer
    International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2011
  • 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
  • Predicting the Politial Alignment of Twitter Users
    Michael Conover, Bruno Gonçalves, Jacob Ratkiewicz, Alessandro Flammini
    & Filippo Menczer
    IEEE International Conference on Social Computing 2011
  • Partisan Asymmetries in Online Political Activity
    Michael Conover, Bruno Gonçalves, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
    Social Networks: Special Issue on Political Networks. Invited.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • A Python Framework for Topic Detection with Latent Semantic Analysis
    Michael Conover & Mei Kobayashi. IBM Technical Report. 2009.
  • Advertainment: QR Codes & Japanese Mobile Phone Culture
    Michael Conover. Communications of the ACM. October, 2009: p9.
  • 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
Talks

  • Social Media and the Networked Public Sphere
    Workshop on Information in Networks 2011
  • Multi-mode Communication in Online Social Networks
    NetSci 2011 International School and Conference on Network Science
  • Counting Raindrops: An Introduction to Data Science
    ICSA Catalyst 2010
Posters

  • 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
  • Visualizing Political Communication
    Michael Conover, Bruno Gonçalves, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
    Journal of Information Technology & Politics 2011:
    The Future of Computational Social Science
  • 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
Book Chapters

  • 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
Awards

  • 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.)

Grants

Featured Videos

  • The Truthy Project
    The Wall Street Journal [link]
  • Political Polarization on Twitter
    International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2011 [link]
Selected Press

  • Decoding Our Chatter
    The Wall Street Journal. October, 2011. [link]
  • Social Scientists Wade Into the Tweet Stream
    Science Magazine. September, 2011. [link]
  • Twitter as Medium and Message
    Communications of the ACM. March, 2011. [link]
  • Tracking the 'Truthiness' of Tweets
    NPR Talk of the Nation. November, 2010. [link]
  • When Campaigns Manipulate Social Media
    The Atlantic. November, 2010. [link]
  • Twitter Tool Roots Out Disguised Mass Postings
    New Scientist. October, 2010. [link]
Curiosities

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