Social Informatics: 8th International Conference, SocInfo 2016, Bellevue, WA, USA, November 11-14, 2016, Proceedings, Part I
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Ser. v.10046
Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Contents -- Part I -- Contents -- Part II -- Networks, Communities, and Groups -- How Well Do Doodle Polls Do? -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Related Work -- 2 Theoretical Framework -- 2.1 Formalizing a Yes-No Doodle Poll -- 2.2 Valuations and Voter Types -- 2.3 Analysis Model -- 3 Ordinary Voting -- 4 Restrictive Voting -- 4.1 Restrictive Voting Can Improve Social Welfare -- 4.2 Restrictive Voting Can Harm Social Welfare -- 5 Cooperative Voting -- 5.1 Cooperative Voting Can Improve Social Welfare -- 5.2 Cooperative Voting Can Harm Social Welfare -- 6 Conclusion -- A Appendix -- A.1 Restrictive Voting -- A.2 Cooperative Voting -- References -- Bring on Board New Enthusiasts! A Case Study of Impact of Wikipedia Art + Feminism Edit-A-Thon Events on Newcomers -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Socialization of Newcomers in Online Communities -- 3 Wikipedia Art+Feminism Edit-A-Thon -- 4 Research Questions -- 5 Research Methods and Data Collection -- 5.1 Wikipedia Dataset -- 5.2 Twitter Dataset -- 6 Results -- 6.1 RQ1: Impact of Edit-A-Thons on Subsequnet Participation of Newcomers -- 6.2 RQ2: Impact of Edit-A-Thons on Newcomers' Community Connections -- 6.3 RQ3: Predicting Subsequent Participation -- 7 Conclusion and Discussion -- References -- The Social Dynamics of Language Change in Online Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data -- 2.1 Linguistic Markers -- 2.2 Social Network -- 2.3 Geography -- 3 Language Change as Social Influence -- 4 Social Evaluation of Language Variation -- 4.1 Tie Strength -- 4.2 Geographic Locality -- 5 Language Change as a Self-exciting Point Process -- 5.1 Parametric Hawkes Process -- 5.2 Objective Function -- 5.3 Gradients -- 5.4 Coordinate Ascent -- 6 Results -- 7 Discussion -- References -- On URL Changes and Handovers in Social Media -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 2.1 Data Collection.