Hoax or Truth: Pattern Extraction Through Diffusion Analysis Hasan T Karaoglu
Outline Introduction Previous Work Meme Tracking and News Cycles Presentation by Jure Leskovic Data Collection
Introduction Traditional News – Who is the source ? – iReport.com Blogs – Media Interaction – Neda, Iran Election : Twitter, Flickr, Youtube – Iraq War : Blogs Hoax or Truth ? – Steve Jobs : iReport.com
Introduction Source: The Rumor Bomb: On Convergence Culture and Politics Jayson Harsin / American University of Paris
Previous Work Probabilistic Long Term Behavior Analysis 1)Closed World 2)Known Topology 3) Read and Spread Trace and Hyperlink Analysis 1) Inference 2) Temporal Analysis
Infection Spread Susceptible: An initial state of blogger just surfing Web Infected: Just run into an interesting topic, respond or copy it Recovered: No longer talk about this topic
Problems MISSING LINKS & JUMPS Text Similarity Link Similarity Connections MULTIPLE SOURCE DAG, Partitioning Heuristics
Data Resources Twitter – API Spinn3r –
Discussion What we know – Various contents spread characteristics Video, Music, Entertainment, News – Various topic spread characteristics Ripples and Floods Spiky, Noisy, Resonant – Media and Blogs interacts
Discussion Could we capture more patterns using Complex Network Tools? – Growth – Changes over Time?
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