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Online activity traces around a "Boston bomber"

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ASONAM '13: Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2492517.2500316

Published: 25 August 2013 Publication History

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This paper describes traces of user activity around a alleged online social network profile of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect, after the tragedy occurred. The analyzed data, collected with the help of an automatic social media monitoring software, includes the perpetrator's page saved at the time the bombing suspects' names were made public, and the subsequently appearing comments left on that page by other users. The analyses suggest that a timely protection of online media records of a criminal could help prevent a large-scale public spread of communication exchange pertaining to the suspects/criminals' ideas, messages, and connections.

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Romanov ASemenov AVeijalainen J(2018)Repository for Multirelational Dynamic NetworksEncyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_110154(2216-2232)Online publication date: 12-Jun-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_110154
Romanov ASemenov AVeijalainen J(2017)Repository for Multirelational Dynamic NetworksEncyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_110154-1(1-16)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_110154-1

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Online activity traces around a "Boston bomber"
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Web-based interaction
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Document representation
  2. Information storage systems

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ASONAM '13: Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining

August 2013

1558 pages

ISBN:9781450322409

DOI:10.1145/2492517

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Jon Rokne
University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

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Romanov ASemenov AVeijalainen J(2018)Repository for Multirelational Dynamic NetworksEncyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_110154(2216-2232)Online publication date: 12-Jun-2018
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Romanov ASemenov AVeijalainen J(2017)Repository for Multirelational Dynamic NetworksEncyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_110154-1(1-16)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_110154-1

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