Emilio Ferrara

University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute

Research Professor

United States

http://emilio.ferrara.name

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (16)

1.

Social Bots Distort the 2016 US Presidential Election Online Discussion

First Monday, Volume 21, Number 11 ­- 7 November 2016
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 08 Jun 2017
Alessandro Bessi and Emilio Ferrara
University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute and University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute
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Disinformation and Social Bot Operations in the Run Up to the 2017 French Presidential Election

First Monday 22(8) - August 7, 2017
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2017
Emilio Ferrara
University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute
Downloads 1,500 (19,561)
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Contagion Dynamics of Extremist Propaganda in Social Networks

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Jun 2017
Emilio Ferrara
University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute
Downloads 446 (101,100)
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The Rise of Social Bots

Communications of the ACM 59 (7), 96-104, 2016
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 19 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2017
University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute, ndiana University Bloomington, School of Informatics and Computing, Students, Indiana University Bloomington, School of Informatics and Computing, Students, Indiana University Bloomington and Indiana University Bloomington
Downloads 294 (160,465)
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The Rise of Jihadist Propaganda on Social Networks

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Jun 2017
Adam Badawy and Emilio Ferrara
University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute and University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute
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6.

Social Politics: Agenda Setting and Political Communication on Social Media

International Conference on Social Informatics, 330-344, 2016
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 12 Jun 2017
Indiana University Bloomington, School of Informatics and Computing, Students, Indiana University Bloomington, School of Informatics and Computing, Students, Indiana University Bloomington, School of Informatics and Computing, Students and University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute
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7.

Manipulation and Abuse on Social Media

ACM SIGWEB Newsletter, Issue Spring, Article No. 4, Spring 2015
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 12 Jun 2017
Emilio Ferrara
University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute
Downloads 110 (377,270)

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8.

Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization

Proceedings of the Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017), pp. 280-289. 2017
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 01 Feb 2019
Sabanci University, University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute, Indiana University Bloomington, School of Informatics and Computing, Students, Indiana University Bloomington and Indiana University Bloomington
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On Facebook, Most Ties are Weak

Communications of the ACM, Vol. 57, No. 11, Pages 78-84, 2014
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 13 Jun 2017
University of Messina - Faculty of Science, University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute, University of Messina - Faculty of Science and University of London - Department of Computer Science & Information Systems
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Quantifying the Effect of Sentiment on Information Diffusion in Social Media

PeerJ Computer Science 1, e26, 2015
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 12 Jun 2017
Emilio Ferrara and Zeyao Yang
University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute and Indiana University Bloomington, School of Informatics and Computing, Students
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Measuring Emotional Contagion in Social Media

PLoS One 10 (11), e0142390, 2015
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 12 Jun 2017
Emilio Ferrara and Zeyao Yang
University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute and Indiana University Bloomington, School of Informatics and Computing, Students
Downloads 58 (548,125)
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Bots Increase Exposure to Negative and Inflammatory Content in Online Social Systems

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (49) 12435-12440. 2018
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 07 Feb 2019
Massimo Stella, Emilio Ferrara and Manlio De Domenico
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute and Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Downloads 44 (617,299)
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13.

Evolution of Online User Behavior During a Social Upheaval

In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Web science (pp. 81-90). ACM.
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 09 Jun 2017
Sabanci University, University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute, Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington and Indiana University Bloomington
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social media analysis, social protest, political mobilization, online user behavior, gezi park

14.

Individual Performance in Team-Based Online Games

Royal Society Open Science, 5(6): 180329. 2018
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 09 Feb 2020
University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California and University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute
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Evidence of Complex Contagion of Information in Social Media: An Experiment Using Twitter Bots

PloS one 12.9 (2017): e0184148
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 04 Feb 2019
Technical University of Denmark, Technical University of Denmark, University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute and Technical University of Denmark
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Extracting the Multi-Timescale Activity Patterns of Online Financial Markets

Nature Scientific Reports, volume 8, Article number: 11184 (2018)
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 04 Feb 2019
Teruyoshi Kobayashi, Anna Sapienza and Emilio Ferrara
Department of Economics, Kobe University, University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute and University of Southern California - Information Sciences Institute
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