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Aspects of Rumor Spreading on a Microblog Network

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Social Informatics (SocInfo 2013)

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Rumors have been studied for several decades in social and psychological fields, where most studies were theory-driven and relied on surveys due to difficulties in gathering data. Rumor research is now gaining new perspectives, because online social media enable researchers to examine closely various kinds of information dissemination on the Internet. In this paper, we review social psychology literature on rumors and try to identify the key differences in the dissemination of rumors and non-rumors. The insights from this study can shed light on improving automatic classification of rumors and better comprehending rumor theories in online social media.

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  1. Korea Advanced Institue of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

    Sejeong Kwon & Meeyoung Cha

  2. Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

    Kyomin Jung

  3. Microsoft Research Asia, China

    Wei Chen & Yajun Wang

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, 606-8501, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

    Adam Jatowt

  2. School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, 178902, Singapore

    Ee-Peng Lim  & Bing Tian Dai  & 

  3. Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, 1320 E. 10th St., LI 011, 47405, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Ying Ding

  4. Department of Integrated Psychological Sciences, Kwansei Gakuin University, 1-1-155 Uegahara, 662-8501, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

    Asako Miura

  5. Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba, 1-2 Kasuga, 305-8550, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, Japan

    Taro Tezuka

  6. Department of Computer Science, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, Campus Côte de Nacre, F-14032, Caen Cedex, France

    Gaël Dias

  7. Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics,, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    Katsumi Tanaka

  8. Department of Communication, University of California, 93106, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Andrew Flanagin

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Kwon, S., Cha, M., Jung, K., Chen, W., Wang, Y. (2013). Aspects of Rumor Spreading on a Microblog Network. In: Jatowt, A., et al. Social Informatics. SocInfo 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8238. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03260-3_26

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