1. S. Felix Wu, UC Davis Background Interests w.r.t. QoE Perspectives
NM, BGP, Security, OSN  Social Sciences
Interests w.r.t. QoE
Communication Network versus Social
Interference, reflection of QoE/QoL differenciation
Impact, Social Interactions, Journalism/Communication models, Social Intelligence
Perspectives
Link the impacts (individual person and/or communities) to the service via the social layer
Achieve/manage QoE within the social layer

2. Interference between Network and Social Layers a communication network QoE perspective
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University of California, Davis, USA
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3. Questions
Was the worse/better QoE due to the network service provided or something else?
Special events, social/cultural/behavioral, expectation and awareness
Can we inform or influence the community better (and in real-time) regarding the expectation?
Expectation, awareness, differentiation

4. Perspectives
Link the impacts (individual person and/or communities) to the service via the social layer
Achieve/manage QoE within the social layer

5. Syrian Internet Blackout
November 29, 2012
AS29386, AS29256
AS3491
AS6453
AS6762
AS29256
AS29386

6. {
"timestamp": " T10:29:58", "type": "A",
"attrs": {
"source_id": " ",
"path": [15605,12874,3303,1299,701,3491,29386,29386,29386,29386,29386,29386],
"community": [],
"target_prefix": " /18” } },
"timestamp": " T14:32:09", "type": "A",
"source_id": " ",
"path": [16735,3549,3491,29386,29386,29386,29386,29386,29386],
"community": ["16735:3", "16735:6011"],
"target_prefix": " /18”}

7. Interference between two Layers
Network vs. Social Layers
What can we say about the “social impact” of the Syrian Internet outage in 2012?

8. Social Interactions
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10. Psychological Linguistics
We cannot easily tell whether the emotion dynamics was due to the target service or something else (deeper and broader)?

11. crawl.SINCERE.se 107 millions of POSTs 1.9 billions of Comments
32 billions of Likes and Reactions
5.2 billions of User identifiers
Primary and application scoped IDs

12. Syrian Internet Outage
User AF1, Damascus
10/1/2012~2/28/2013
Syrian Internet Outage
Possible sleep time for AF1
# of comments by AF1 per day

13. Syrian Internet Outage
شبكة أخبار الثورة السورية في أحياء دمشق
Page ID:
Syrian Internet Outage
Still crawling

14. Anomalous user ID
sleeping

17. Timing Analysis Users being affected together at the network layer
Users/communities being affected indirectly from the social interaction layer
Key participants missing due to the network layer services
Alignment between BGP ASes and FB communities

18. 10772 comments, 16567 likes from 5604 individual users
Duration or life time of a post?
{"id” : " _ ",
"from” : {"name” : "Fox News",
"category” : "Media news publishing”,
"id” : " "},
"message” : "Breaking News: The White House releases President Obama's long-form birth certificate. Obama to comment at 9:45a ET -- Watch live on Fox News Channel.",
"actions” : [{"name” : "Comment",
"link” : "
"created_time” : " T13:07: ",
"updated_time” : " T01:34: ",
"likes” : {"data":[…],"count":2052},
"comments”:
10772 comments, likes from 5604 individual users
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19. #Users
#Comments/Messages
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20. #Users
#Comments/Messages
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#Comments/Messages
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23. Example of Communication Theory Information Cascade
Decision
Information
Decisions from Observable Others earlier
Cascade
Ignoring local/private information and relying on the observable/public decisions (by others).
Fragility of cascades on new (public) information
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25. Up Cascade
No Cascade
Down Cascade
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26. Cascade  Prediction 4th Comment – Transition Point (OWS) 8/8/16
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27. Timing Analysis

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33. Syrian Internet Outage

34. Pay attention to connections inside groups.
Neutrals are not born to be on the “neutral” position. They are influenced by others as time goes on.
Pay attention to connections inside groups.
3h after the topic is posted.
70 comments received.
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