Transparency in Social Media Tools, Methods and Algorithms for Mediating Online Interactions /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Matei, Sorin Adam (Editor), Russell, Martha G. (Editor), Bertino, Elisa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Computational Social Sciences
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data mining.; Application software.; System theory.; Physics.; Social sciences.; Computer Science.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Complex Networks.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Complex Systems.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.

The volume presents, in a synergistic manner, significant theoretical and practical contributions in the area of social media reputation and authorship measurement, visualization, and modeling. The book justifies and proposes contributions to a future agenda for understanding the requirements for ma...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Overtures to Transparency in Social Media
• Introduction
• Socio-Computational Frameworks, Tools and Algorithms for Supporting Transparent Authorship in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Lessons from the second KredibleNet Workshop
• Part II. Assessing Provenance and Pathways in Social Media: Case studies, methods and tools
• Robust Aggregation of Inconsistent Information - Concepts and Research Directions
• Weaponized Crowdsourcing
• The Structures of Twitter Crowds and Conversations
• Visible Effort: Visualizing and measuring group structuration through social entropy
• Stepwise segmented regression analysis: An iterative statistical algorithm to detect and quantify evolutionary and revolutionary transformations in longitudinal data
• Towards Bottom-up Decision Making and Collaborative Knowledge Generation in Urban Infrastructure Projects through Online Social Media
• Biometric-Based User Authentication and Activity Level Detection in a Collaborative Environment
• Part III. Improving transparency through documentation and curation
• In the Flow: Evolving from Utility Based Social Medium to Community Peer
• Ostinato: The exploration-automation cycle of user-centric, process-automated data-driven visual network analytics
• Visual Analytics of User-influence based Dynamic Social Networks using Twitter Data
• Transparency, control and content generation on Wikipedia: Editorial strategies and technical affordances
• Part IV Transparency in social media: ethical and critical dimensions
• Truth Telling and Deception in Internet Society
• Embedding Privacy and Ethical Values in Big Data Technology
• Strategies for critical understanding of social media content.