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Maritz, Yrika Vanessa. "The use of social media as a public participation strategy in the public service of Namibia." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96916.

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Thesis (MPA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This exploratory study attempts to establish the readiness of the Namibian government in using social media as a strategy for public participation. The subject of public participation as a strategy to improve the process of policymaking has been researched extensively. Similarly, the use of social media to promote public participation which in turn influences service delivery is gaining popularity in many scholarly works. However, there is still a paucity of research investigating the use of social media as a public participatio

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Baatarjav, Enkh-Amgalan. "Privacy Management for Online Social Networks." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc283816/.

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One in seven people in the world use online social networking for a variety of purposes -- to keep in touch with friends and family, to share special occasions, to broadcast announcements, and more. The majority of society has been bought into this new era of communication technology, which allows everyone on the internet to share information with friends. Since social networking has rapidly become a main form of communication, holes in privacy have become apparent. It has come to the point that the whole concept of sharing information requires restructuring. No longer are online social networ

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Rahman, Mahmudur. "Data Verifications for Online Social Networks." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2299.

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Social networks are popular platforms that simplify user interaction and encourage collaboration. They collect large amounts of media from their users, often reported from mobile devices. The value and impact of social media makes it however an attractive attack target. In this thesis, we focus on the following social media vulnerabilities. First, review centered social networks such as Yelp and Google Play have been shown to be the targets of significant search rank and malware proliferation attacks. Detecting fraudulent behaviors is thus paramount to prevent not only public opinion bias, but

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Webberley, William. "Inferring interestingness in online social networks." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/68758/.

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Information sharing and user-generated content on the Internet has given rise to the increased presence of uninteresting and ‘noisy’ information in media streams on many online social networks. Although there is a lot of ‘interesting’ information also shared amongst users, the noise increases the cognitive burden in terms of the users’ abilities to identify what is interesting and may increase the chance of missing content that is useful or important. Additionally, users on such platforms are generally limited to receiving information only from those that they are directly linked to on the soc

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Sáez-Trumper, Diego. "Finding relevant people in online social networks." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/283658.

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The objective of this thesis is to develop novel techniques to find relevant people in Online Social Networks (OSN). To that end, we consider different notions of relevance, taking the point of view of the OSN providers (like Facebook) and advertisers, as well as considering the people who are trying to push new ideas and topics on the network. We go beyond people's popularity, showing that the users with a lot of followers are not necessarily the most relevant. Specifically, we develop three algorithms that allow to: (i) compute the monetary value that each user produces for OSN provider; (ii

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Recalde, Lorena. "Modeling users preferences in online social networks." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/663756.

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L'objectiu d'aquesta tesi és desenvolupar nous i diversos mètodes per modelar les preferències dels usuaris a les Xarxes Socials Online. Els mètodes proposats tenen com a finalitat ser aplicats en àrees de recerca com la Personalització o Recomanació d'ítems i la Detecció de Grups d'Usuaris amb gustos similars. Aquests mètodes poden ser agrupats en dos tipus: i) mètodes basats en tècniques d'anàlisi de textos (Part I, Capítols del 3 al 5) i ii) mètodes basats en teoria de grafs (Part II, Capítols 6 i 7). Amb els mètodes plantejats a la Part I és possible determinar el nivell d'interès dels

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Lewis, Makayla. "Cerebral palsy, online social networks and change." Thesis, City University London, 2013. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/3011/.

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In 2011, 19.2 million households in the United Kingdom had access to the Internet. Online social networks (OSN) such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Bebo and YouTube have proved to be the most popular Internet activity (Office of National Statistics, 2011). 49% of these users have updated or created an OSN profile and are making over 24 million visits a month (Dutton, 2009). These websites are often directed at a broad market i.e. people without disabilities. Unfortunately people with disabilities, especially those with physical impairments, often have a greater risk of experiencing loneliness

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Yang, Yile, and 楊頤樂. "Noncooperative information diffusion in online social networks." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206693.

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Information diffusion in online social networks has received attention in both research and actual applications. The prevalence of online social networking sites offers the possibility of mining for necessary information. However, existing influence maximization algorithms and newly proposed influence diffusion models do not distinguish between seed nodes (or pilot users) and nonseed nodes and assume all nodes are cooperative in propagating influence. This thesis investigates models and heuristics for noncooperative information diffusion in online social networks. It consists of three parts: t

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Hong, Dan. "Sharing private data in online social networks /." View abstract or full-text, 2009. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?CSED%202009%20HONG.

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Marks, Christopher E. (Christopher Edward). "Analytic search methods in online social networks." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112012.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Operations Research Center, 2017.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-185).<br>This thesis presents and evaluates methods for searching and analyzing social media data in order to improve situational awareness. We begin by proposing a method for network vertex search that looks for the target

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Laraqui, Jawad. "Activity based interfaces in online social networks." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41658.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2007.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 51).<br>The goal of the project is to explore how activity-based interfaces can create more meaningful experiences for the users and builders of online social networking sites. Medina, a social-networking site based on the idea of exchanging knowledge, explores new interfaces for visualizing connections between people and ideas. The site constantly measures interactions between people and their interests in order to create a more accura

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Xu, Hailu. "Efficient Spam Detection across Online Social Networks." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1470416658.

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Bhardwaj, Shally. "Personality Assessment Using Multiple Online Social Networks." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31734.

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Personality plays an important role in various aspects of our daily life. It is being used in many application scenarios such as i) personalized marketing and advertisement of commercial products, ii) designing personalized ambient environments, iii) personalized avatars in virtual world, and iv) by psychologists to treat various mental and personality disorders. Traditional methods of personality assessment require a long questionnaire to be completed, which is time consuming. On the other hand, several works have been published that seek to acquire various personality traits by analyzing Int

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Ahmad, Waqar, and Asim Riaz. "Predicting Friendship Levels in Online Social Networks." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3351.

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Abstract Context: Online social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace have become the preferred interaction, entertainment and socializing facility on the Internet. However, these social network services also bring privacy issues in more limelight than ever. Several privacy leakage problems are highlighted in the literature with a variety of suggested countermeasures. Most of these measures further add complexity and management overhead for the user. One ignored aspect with the architecture of online social networks is that they do not offer any mechanism to calculate the strength of

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Cox, Shirley A. "Online social network member attitude toward online advertising formats /." Online version of thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11588.

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Lei, Siyu, and 雷思宇. "Online influence maximization." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/210187.

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Social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, enable the wide spread of information through users’ influence on each other. These networks are very useful for marketing purposes. For example, free samples of a product can be given to a few influencers (seed nodes), with the hope that they will convince their friends to buy it. One way to formalize marketers’ objective is through the influence maximization problem, which is to find the best seed nodes to influence under a fixed budget so that the number of people who get influenced in the end is maximized. Recent solutions to influence maximiz

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Irani, Danesh. "Preventing abuse of online communities." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/44895.

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Online communities are growing at a phenomenal rate and with the large number of users these communities contain, attackers are drawn to exploit these users. Denial of information (DoI) attacks and information leakage attacks are two popular attacks that target users on online communities. These information based attacks are linked by their opposing views on low-quality information. On the one hand denial of information attacks which primarily use low-quality information (such as spam and phishing) are a nuisance for information consumers. On the other hand information leakage attacks, which

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Noe, Nyala. "Personality homophily and social-spatial characteristics in online social networks." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/118510/.

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Do birds of a feather flock together or do opposites attract? The aim of this thesis is to consider this question in the context of online social networks. Humans, unlike birds, can flock together based on a wide variety of characteristics, such as age, gender, or political affiliation. The tendency of people to assort based on a common trait is referred to as homophily. Research into homophilous traits has often overlooked psychological characteristics. In particular, while personality is studied extensively in the context of social media use, it has received little attention in the homophily

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Aloufi, Samah. "Trust-aware Link Prediction in Online Social Networks." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23303.

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As people go about their lives, they form a variety of social relationships, such as family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances, and these relationships differ in their strength, indicating the level of trust among these people. The trend in these relationships is for people to trust those who they have met in real life more than unfamiliar people whom they have only met online. In online social network sites the objective is to make it possible for users to post information and share albums, diaries, videos, and experiences with a list of contacts who are real-world friends and/or like-mi

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Pérez-Solà, Cristina. "Towards understanding privacy risks in online social networks." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/386415.

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Les xarxes socials en línia (en anglès, Online Social Networks o OSNs) són avui en dia un dels serveis més populars a Internet. En el moment d’escriure aquestes línies, quatre de les deu primeres pàgines del rànquing global Alexa corresponien a xarxes socials i les xarxes més utilitzades tenien centenars de milions d’usuaris actius cada dia. Les persones fem servir xarxes socials per compartir tot tipus de continguts: des d’atributs personals (com noms, edat o sexe), a ubicacions, fotos o comentaris. D’altra banda, les xarxes socials es caracteritzen per permetre que els usuaris puguin crea

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Botha, Leendert W. "Modeling online social networks using Quasi-clique communities." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17859.

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Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2011<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: With billions of current internet users interacting through social networks, the need has arisen to analyze the structure of these networks. Many authors have proposed random graph models for social networks in an attempt to understand and reproduce the dynamics that govern social network development. This thesis proposes a random graph model that generates social networks using a community-based approach, in which users’ affiliations to communities are explicitly modeled and then translated into a social network. Our appro

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Wei, Wei. "Improving Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks." W&M ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623628.

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Online social networks (OSNs) have gained soaring popularity and are among the most popular sites on the Web. With OSNs, users around the world establish and strengthen connections by sharing thoughts, activities, photos, locations, and other personal information. However, the immense popularity of OSNs also raises significant security and privacy concerns. Storing millions of users' private information and their social connections, OSNs are susceptible to becoming the target of various attacks. In addition, user privacy will be compromised if the private data collected by OSNs are abused, ina

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Kershaw, Daniel. "Language change and evolution in Online Social Networks." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2018. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/129787/.

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Language is in constant flux, whether through the creation of new terms or the changing meanings of existing words. The process by which language change happens is through complex reinforcing interactions between individuals and the social structures in which they exist. There has been much research into language change and evolution, though this has involved manual processes that are both time consuming and costly. However, with the growth in popularity of osn, for the first time, researchers have access to fine-grained records of language and user interactions that not only contain data on t

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Othman, Salem. "Autonomous Priority Based Routing for Online Social Networks." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1526481500145998.

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Zhen, Yufeng. "A NOVEL SPAM CAMPAIGN IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3290.

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The increasing popularity of the Online Social Networks (OSNs)\nomenclature{$OSNs$}{Online Social Networks} has made the OSNs major targets of spammers. They aim to illegally gather private information from users and spread spam to them. In this paper, we propose a new spam campaign that includes following key steps: creating fake accounts, picking legitimate accounts, forming friendships, earning trust, and spreading spam. The unique part in our spam campaign is the process of earning trust. By using social bots, we significantly lower the cost of earning trust and make it feasible in the rea

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Alzamzami, Fatimah. "Towards Multimedia-Based Storytelling in Online Social Networks." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32521.

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Human activities can now be captured in real-time using sensor technology. The growth in sensor applications and smart mobile phones that come equipped with built-in sensors has led to the integration of sensors with social networks. These days, people are heavily dependent on online social networks (OSNs); they migrate their real-life activities online through various types of multimedia such as photos, videos, text, etc., which turns OSNs into a soft-sensory resource about users' events. The users use these forms of multimedia to tell their friends about their daily lives. This social networ

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Niu, Guolin, and 牛国林. "Temporal modeling of information diffusion in online social networks." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206478.

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The rapid development of online social networks (OSNs) renders them a powerful platform for information diffusion on a massive scale. OSNs generate enormous propagation traces. An important question is how to model the real-world information diffusion process. Although considerable studies have been conducted in this field, the temporal characteristics have not been fully addressed yet. This thesis addresses the issue of modeling the temporal dynamics of the information diffusion process. Based on empirical findings drawn from large-scale propagation traces of a popular OSN in China, we demons

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Agostinelli, Sara. "Impacts of student identity construction in online social networks." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Summer2009/s_agostinelli_061809.pdf.

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Ruan, Xin. "Rethinking Privacy and Security Mechanisms in Online Social Networks." W&M ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1499449857.

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With billions of users, Online Social Networks(OSNs) are amongst the largest scale communication applications on the Internet. OSNs enable users to easily access news from local and worldwide, as well as share information publicly and interact with friends. On the negative side, OSNs are also abused by spammers to distribute ads or malicious information, such as scams, fraud, and even manipulate public political opinions. Having achieved significant commercial success with large amount of user information, OSNs do treat the security and privacy of their users seriously and provide several mech

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Tarbzouni, Abdulrahman I. "SocialRank : ranking users and information in online social networks." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53167.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2009.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaf 39).<br>The goal of this project is to explore the design and implementation of SocialRank. SocialRank is a personalized ranking algorithm that provides--for each user--ratings for people in his online social network. Subsequently, these ratings are used to rank incoming information received by the user from those in his social network. We analyze the use of actions on online social networks as proxies for measuring the strength of re

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Kamal, Noreen. "Designing online social networks to motivate health behaviour change." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45242.

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Eating nutritious foods and being more physically active prevents significant illnesses such as cardiac disease, stroke, and diabetes. However, leading a healthy lifestyle remains elusive and obesity continues to increase in North America. We investigate how online social networks (OSN) can change health behaviour by blending theories from health behaviour and participation in OSNs, which allow us to design and evaluate an OSN through a user-centred design (UCD) process. We begin this research by reviewing existing theoretical models to obtain the determining factors for participation in

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Chaabane, Abdelberi. "Online Social Networks : Is it the end of Privacy ?" Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENM017/document.

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Les réseaux sociaux en ligne (OSNs) recueillent une masse de données à caractère privé. Le recueil de ces données ainsi que leur utilisation relèvent de nouveaux enjeux économiques et évoquent plusieurs questionnements notamment ceux relatifs à la protection de la vie privée. Notre thèse propose certaines réponses.Dans le premier chapitre nous analysons l'impact du partage des données personnelles de l'utilisateur sur sa vie privée. Tout d'abord, nous montrons comment les intérêts d'un utilisateur -- à titre d'exemple ses préférences musicales -- peuvent être à l'origine de fuite d'information

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Albalawi, Rania. "Toward a Real-Time Recommendation for Online Social Networks." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42255.

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The Internet increases the demand for the development of commercial applications and services that can provide better shopping experiences for customers globally. It is full of information and knowledge sources that might confuse customers. This requires customers to spend additional time and effort when they are trying to find relevant information about specific topics or objects. Recommendation systems are considered to be an important method that solves this issue. Incorporating recommendation systems in online social networks led to a specific kind of recommendation system called social re

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Monk, Adam Joel. "The Diffusion of New Music through Online Social Networks." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337902485.

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Vallapu, Sai Krishna. "Towards Network False Identity Detection in Online Social Networks." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10246101.

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<p> In this research, we focus on identifying false identities in social networks. We performed a detailed study on different string matching techniques to identify user profiles with real or fake identity. In this thesis, we focus on a specific case study on sex offenders. Sex offenders are not supposed to be online on social networking sites in few states. To identify the existence of offenders in social networks, we ran experiments to compare datasets downloaded from Facebook and offender registries. To identify the most suitable string matching technique to solve this particular problem, w

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Greschbach, Benjamin. "Privacy Analysis and Protocols for Decentralized Online Social Networks." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Teoretisk datalogi, TCS, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-165377.

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Decentralized Online Social Networks (DOSNs) are evolving as a promising approach to mitigate design-inherent privacy flaws of logically centralized services such as Facebook, Google+ or Twitter. Common approaches to implement a DOSN build upon a peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture in order to avoid the central aggregation of sensitive user data at one provider-controlled location. While the absence of a single point of data aggregation strikes the most powerful attacker from the list of adversaries, the decentralization also removes some privacy protection afforded by the provider's intermediatio

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Kayes, Md Imrul. "Content Abuse and Privacy Concerns in Online Social Networks." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5967.

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Online Social Networks (OSNs) have seen an exponential growth over the last decade, with Facebook having more than 1.49 billion monthly active users and Twitter having 135,000 new users signing up every day as of 2015. Users are sharing 70 million photos per day on the Instagram photo-sharing network. Yahoo Answers question-answering community has more than 1 billion posted answers. The meteoric rise in popularity has made OSNs important social platforms for computer-mediated communications and embedded themselves into society’s daily life, with direct consequences to the offline world and act

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Kong, Chenguang, and 孔臣光. "Collaborative streaming in mobile social networks." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47849897.

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Mobile social applications have emerged in recent years. They explore social connections among mobile users in a variety of novel scenarios, including friend finding, message routing, and content sharing. However, efficiently supporting resource-demanding delay-sensitive streaming applications on the mobile platform remains a significant challenge. Research on such topics will naturally widen the usage of mobile social applications. The solutions to the challenges will provide suggestion on many related work. It is interesting and valuable to explore the system performance and users’ e

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Smith, Matthew Scott. "Social Capital in Online Communities." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2730.

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Social capital is the value of the relationships we create and maintain within our social networks to gain access to and mobilize needed resources (e.g., jobs, moral support). Quantifying, and subsequently leveraging, social capital are challenging problems in the social sciences. Most work so far has focused on analyses from static surveys of limited numbers of participants. The explosion of online social media means that it is now possible to collect rich data about people's connections and interactions, in a completely ubiquitous, non-intrusive manner. Such dynamic social data opens the doo

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Vandersluis, Kelly S. "Creating social action through Facebook." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3008.

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Thesis (M.A.)--George Mason University, 2008.<br>Vita: p. 61. Thesis director: Byron Hawk. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed July 2, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-60). Also issued in print.

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Angelopoulos, Spyros. "Exploring social processes on online communities : emergence and evolution of social networks." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/63219/.

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The thesis is focused on the possibilities that exist for crossing or even transcending the boundary between existence in the real and virtual worlds, and it presents the findings of a longitudinal study of an online community of cigar smokers, which was created for the needs of the study, tracing the interactions of its participants over a period of eighteen months. The internet enables the formation of online communities that provide unprecedented opportunities for communication across geographic, political and economic divides, and reach across barriers of distance, time and culture. Such c

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Erlandsson, Fredrik. "Human Interactions on Online Social Media : Collecting and Analyzing Social Interaction Networks." Doctoral thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för datalogi och datorsystemteknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-15503.

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Online social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, provides users with services that enable them to interact both globally and instantly. The nature of social media interactions follows a constantly growing pattern that requires selection mechanisms to find and analyze interesting data. These interactions on social media can then be modeled into interaction networks, which enable network-based and graph-based methods to model and understand users’ behaviors on social media. These methods could also benefit the field of complex networks in terms of finding initial seeds in the inform

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Greschbach, Benjamin. "Privacy Issues in Decentralized Online Social Networks and other Decentralized Systems." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Teoretisk datalogi, TCS, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-196118.

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Popular Online Social Networks (OSNs), such as Facebook or Twitter, are logically centralized systems. The massive information aggregation of sensitive personal data at the central providers of these services is an inherent threat to the privacy of the users. Leakages of these data collections happen regularly – both intentionally, for example by selling of user data to third parties and unintentionally, for example when outsiders successfully attack a provider. Motivated by this insight, the concept of Decentralized Online Social Networks (DOSNs) has emerged. In these proposed systems, no sin

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Alim, Sophia. "Vulnerability in online social network profiles : a framework for measuring consequences of information disclosure in online social networks." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5507.

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The increase in online social network (OSN) usage has led to personal details known as attributes being readily displayed in OSN profiles. This can lead to the profile owners being vulnerable to privacy and social engineering attacks which include identity theft, stalking and re identification by linking. Due to a need to address privacy in OSNs, this thesis presents a framework to quantify the vulnerability of a user's OSN profile. Vulnerability is defined as the likelihood that the personal details displayed on an OSN profile will spread due to the actions of the profile owner and their frie

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Shaikh, Sajid S. "Computations in social network." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1185560088.

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Johansson, Mikael, and Jonatan Rörsch. "Social Networks : Creating Organizational Benefits out of an Online Conversation." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Industriell teknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-207416.

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Scania is increasing its production by improving its efficiency. The company is striving to achieve its new productivity goals without making large investments. In large organizations such as Scania there are many competent and skilled employees. However, since many of their offices are located worldwide communication is not always efficient and optimal. The purpose of this thesis is to show the potential benefits when implementing and operating online social networks within global organizations including Scania. Through empirical studies of global organizations which have utilized online soci

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Hadija, Zeljka. "Perceptions of advertising in online social networks : in-depth interviews /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/5958.

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Nasim, Mehwish [Verfasser]. "Inferring Social Relations from Online and Communication Networks / Mehwish Nasim." Konstanz : Bibliothek der Universität Konstanz, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1139641050/34.

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Renard, Benjamin. "Online time-dependent clustering with applications to distributed social networks." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121552.

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Cluster analysis can be defined as the study of algorithms and methods that aim at organizing data into meaningful groups in an unsupervised fashion. These algorithms are essential to understand specific sets of data and the relations between items inside these sets, and are used in many scientific fields (e.g., computer vision, biology, economics). If the data evolves over time, we need specific algorithms to represent the evolution of the clustering of the dataset over time. An additional complication arises when we do not have the entire dataset at once but instead receive elements one by o

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Baker, Razan. "Online social networks and Saudi youth participation in physical activity." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/14522.

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Previous studies targeting youth participation in physical activity have argued that self-motivation is the main key to increasing participation. However, few studies have focused specifically on the role of structural factors in prompting youth participation in physical activity. The structure may include people, and institutions that are introducing, providing and facilitating physical activity to youth. Therefore, this study focuses on the role of the structure surrounding youth. The study takes youth in Saudi Arabia aged 15-24 as its subjects in order to examine the use of three online soc

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