Monday, 10:30am-12:00pm Session Chair: Professor Pauline Leonard
In What Mood Are You Today? An Analysis of Crowd Workers' Mood, Performance and Engagement Mengdie Zhuang and Ujwal Gadiraju
Prevalence and Psychological Effects of Hateful Speech in Online College Communities Koustuv Saha, Eshwar Chandrasekharan and Munmun De Choudhury.
Understanding Brand consistency from Web content Soumyadeep Roy, Niloy Ganguly, Shamik Sural, Niyati Chhaya and Anandhavelu Natarajan
Dogs Good, Trump Bad: The Impact of Social Media Content on Sense of Well-Being (short) Jennifer Golbeck
Differences in Emotional Reactions to Social Media Content: The Role of Location and Content Type (short) Farhad Mohammad Afzali, Christian Haas and Margeret Hall
User behavior on the web
Monday, 2:00pm-3:30pm Session Chair: Professor Paolo Boldi
Good News for People Who Love Bad News: Centralization, Privacy, and Transparency on US News Sites Tim Libert and Reuben Binns
The Six Relative Advantages in Multichannel Retail for Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds and Two-Dimensional Websites Alex Zarifis
Auditing Autocomplete: Suggestion Networks and Recursive Algorithm Interrogation Ronald Robertson, Shan Jiang, David Lazer and Christo Wilson
Characterising third party cookie usage in the EU after GDPR (short) Xuehui Hu and Nishanth Sastry
Methods and data for Web Science
Monday, 4:00pm-5:30pm Session Chair: Professor Dame Wendy Hall
The Potential for Serious Spaceships to Make a Serious Difference Robert Fleet and Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller
Using the Web for Science in the Classroom: Online Citizen Science Participation in Teaching and Learning Cathal Doyle, Rodreck David, Jane Li, Markus Luczak-Roesch, Dayle Anderson and Cameron Pierson
A Broad Evaluation of the Tor English Content Ecosystem Mahdieh Zabihimayvan, Reza Sadeghi, Derek Doran and Mehdi Allahyari
Incentivized Blockchain-based Social Media Platforms: A Case Study of Steemit Chao Li and Balaji Palanisamy
A Data-Driven Examination of Hotelling's Linear City Model Xin Liu and Konstantinos Pelechrinis
Towards a Cyberphysical Web Science: A Social Machines Perspective on Pokémon GO! David De Roure, Jim Hendler, Diccon James, Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Max Van Kleek and Pip Willcox.
Prediction studies Tuesday, 10:30am-12:00pm Session Chair: Professor Steffen Staab
EAN: Event Attention Network for Stock Price Trend Prediction based on Sentimental Embedding Yaowei Wang, Qing Li, Zhexue Huang and Junjie Li
Empowering Borrowers in their choice of Lenders: Decoding Service Quality from Customer Complaints Aniruddha Godbole and David Crandall
Investor Retention in Equity Crowdfunding Igor Zakhlebin and Agnes Horvat
Harnessing Collective Intelligence in P2P Lending Henry Dambanemuya and Agnes Horvat
An Automated Cyclic Planning Framework Based on Plan-Do-Check-Act for Web of Things Composition Mahda Noura and Martin Gaedke
Fairness and equality on the web Tuesday, 2:00pm-3:30pm Session Chair: Professor Ricardo Baeza-Yates
As the tweet, so the reply? Gender bias in digital communication with politicians Armin Mertens, Franziska Pradel, Ayjeren Rozyjumayeva and Jens Wäckerle
Exploring Misogyny across the Manosphere in Reddit Tracie Farrell, Miriam Fernandez, Jakub Novotny and Harith Alani
Algorithmic Privacy and Gender Bias Issues in Google Ad Settings (short) Nisha Shekhawat, Aakanksha Chauhan and Sakthi Balan Muthiah (speaker: Ritam Dutt)
Characterizing Transport Perception using Social Media: Differences in Mode and Gender (short) Paula Vásquez-Henríquez, Eduardo Graells-Garrido and Diego Caro
Pwned: Number of Breached Online Accounts Per Person and Socio-demographic Predictors (short) Ken Cor and Gaurav Sood
Fake news, non-human actors and misbehaviour on the web - Part I
Tuesday, 4:00pm-5:30pm Session Chair: Professor Harith Alani
Trust It or Not: Effects of Machine Learning Warning in Helping Individuals Mitigate Misinformation Haeseung Seo, Aiping Xiong and Dongwon Lee
Minority Report: Cyberbullying Prediction on Instagram Charalampos Chelmis and Mengfan Yao
Explainable Machine Learning for Fake News Detection Julio Reis, André Correia, Fabricio Murai, Adriano Veloso and Fabricio Benevenuto
A Unified Deep Learning Architecture for Abuse Detection Antigoni-Maria Founta, Despoina Chatzakou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Jeremy Blackburn, Athena Vakali and Ilias Leontiadis
A Reverse Turing Test for Detecting Machine-Made Texts (short) Jialin Shao, Adaku Uchendu and Dongwon Lee
Fake news, non-human actors and misbehaviour on the web - Part II
Wednesday, 9:00am-10:30am Session Chair: Professor Christo Wilson
RTbust: Exploiting Temporal Patterns for Botnet Detection on Twitter Michele Mazza, Stefano Cresci, Marco Avvenuti, Walter Quattrociocchi and Maurizio Tesconi
Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, William Setzer, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini and Jeremy Blackburn
What Sets Verified Users Apart? Insights, Analysis and Prediction of Verified Users on TwitterIndraneil Paul, Abhinav Khattar, Shaan Chopra, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Manish Gupta
Analyzing the Spread of Textual Information in Whatsapp Groups Gustavo Jota Resende, Philipe Melo, Julio C. S. Reis, Marisa Vasconcelos, Jussara Almeida and Fabricio Benevenuto
Better Safe Than Sorry: an Adversarial Approach to improve Social Bot Detection Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, Angelo Spognardi and Stefano Tognazzi
Information diffusion
Wednesday, 11:00am-12:30pm Session Chair: Prof. Wagner Meira Jr.
New tab page recommendations strongly concentrate web browsing to familiar sources Homanga Bharadhwaj and Nisheeth Srivastava (speaker: Gaurav Sood)
Characterizing Attention Cascades in Whatsapp Groups Josemar Caetano, Gabriel Magno, Marcos Gonçalves, Jussara Almeida, Humberto T. Marques-Neto and Virgilio Almeida
Debunking Rumors in Social Networks: A Timely Approach Liang Wu and Huan Liu
Spread of hate speech in online social media Binny Mathew, Ritam Dutt, Pawan Goyal and Animesh Mukherjee
Modelling web based socio-technical systems through formalising possible sequences of human experience Robert Walton and David De Roure
Concept of Keystone Species in Web Systems: Identifying Small Yet Influential Online Bulletin Board Threads (short) Shota Ejima, Mizuki Oka and Takashi Ikegami
Important dates
Conference: June 30 - July 3 Workshops: Sunday, June 30 Poster Session: Monday, July 1 Banquet: Tuesday, July 2