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Potential mass surveillance and privacy violations in proximity-based social applications
Proximity-based social applications let users interact with people that are
currently close to them, by revealing some information about their preferences
and whereabouts. This information is acquired through passive geo-localisation
and used to build a sense of serendipitous discovery of people, places and
interests. Unfortunately, while this class of applications opens different
interactions possibilities for people in urban settings, obtaining access to
certain identity information could lead a possible privacy attacker to identify
and follow a user in their movements in a specific period of time. The same
information shared through the platform could also help an attacker to link the
victim's online profiles to physical identities. We analyse a set of popular
dating application that shares users relative distances within a certain radius
and show how, by using the information shared on these platforms, it is
possible to formalise a multilateration attack, able to identify the user
actual position. The same attack can also be used to follow a user in all their
movements within a certain period of time, therefore identifying their habits
and Points of Interest across the city. Furthermore we introduce a social
attack which uses common Facebook likes to profile a person and finally
identify their real identity
#Halal Culture on Instagram
Halal is a notion that applies to both objects and actions, and means
permissible according to Islamic law. It may be most often associated with food
and the rules of selecting, slaughtering, and cooking animals. In the
globalized world, halal can be found in street corners of New York and beauty
shops of Manila. In this study, we explore the cultural diversity of the
concept, as revealed through social media, and specifically the way it is
expressed by different populations around the world, and how it relates to
their perception of (i) religious and (ii) governmental authority, and (iii)
personal health. Here, we analyze two Instagram datasets, using Halal in Arabic
(325,665 posts) and in English (1,004,445 posts), which provide a global view
of major Muslim populations around the world. We find a great variety in the
use of halal within Arabic, English, and Indonesian-speaking populations, with
animal trade emphasized in first (making up 61% of the language's stream), food
in second (80%), and cosmetics and supplements in third (70%). The
commercialization of the term halal is a powerful signal of its detraction from
its traditional roots. We find a complex social engagement around posts
mentioning religious terms, such that when a food-related post is accompanied
by a religious term, it on average gets more likes in English and Indonesian,
but not in Arabic, indicating a potential shift out of its traditional moral
framing
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âDiscover your own Irelandâ: Virtual Ireland(s) for an international audience
Copyright @ 2009 University of GlasgowThe opening years of the twenty-first century can be characterised by the increased overlap between cyberspace and the physical world; virtual reality is more real than it has ever been. The rising popularity of web 2.0 forms of self-expression and user generated content such as Facebook, MySpace and blogging have resulted in it becoming the largest growth area on the internet.
This essay hopes to explore how the uptake and familiarity with web technology by Irish people has overflowed into their lives and cultural expressions via the use of âvirtual communitiesâ. As the forums for representing the virtual self continue to evolve and multiply, debates over the multiple meanings of Irishness will thrive as the ânew Irishâ continue to reinterpret the complexities of their identity using web technology
Information and Communication Technology Reputation for XU030 Quote Companies
By the increasing spread of information technology and Internet improvements,
most of the large-scale companies are paying special attention to their
reputation on many types of the information and communication technology. The
increasing developments and penetration of new technologies into daily life,
brings out paradigm shift on the perception of reputation and creates new
concepts like esocieties, techno-culture and new media. Contemporary companies
are trying to control their reputation over the new communities who are mostly
interacting with social networks, web pages and electronic communication
technologies. In this study, the reputation of top 30 Turkish companies, quoted
to the Istanbul Stock Market, is studied, based on the information technology
interfaces between company and society, such as social networks, blogs, wikis
and web pages. The web reputation is gathered through 17 different parameters,
collected from Google, Facebook, Twitter, Bing, Alexa, etc. The reputation
index is calculated by z-index and fscoring formulations after the min-max
normalization of each web reputation parameter.Comment: 5 pages 2 figure 1 table 21 refs. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1401.754
Consequences of Content Diversity for Online Public Spaces for Local Communities
While there is significant potential for social technologies to strengthen local communities, creating viable online spaces for them remains difficult. Maintaining a reliable content stream is challenging for local communities with their bounded emphases and limited population of potential contributors. Some systems focus on specific information types (e.g. restaurant, events). Others allow many different information types. This paper reports our findings about the consequences of content diversity from a study of neighborhood-oriented Facebook groups. The findings raise questions about the viability of designs for local online communities that focus narrowly on single topics, goals, and audiences
What Twitter Profile and Posted Images Reveal About Depression and Anxiety
Previous work has found strong links between the choice of social media
images and users' emotions, demographics and personality traits. In this study,
we examine which attributes of profile and posted images are associated with
depression and anxiety of Twitter users. We used a sample of 28,749 Facebook
users to build a language prediction model of survey-reported depression and
anxiety, and validated it on Twitter on a sample of 887 users who had taken
anxiety and depression surveys. We then applied it to a different set of 4,132
Twitter users to impute language-based depression and anxiety labels, and
extracted interpretable features of posted and profile pictures to uncover the
associations with users' depression and anxiety, controlling for demographics.
For depression, we find that profile pictures suppress positive emotions rather
than display more negative emotions, likely because of social media
self-presentation biases. They also tend to show the single face of the user
(rather than show her in groups of friends), marking increased focus on the
self, emblematic for depression. Posted images are dominated by grayscale and
low aesthetic cohesion across a variety of image features. Profile images of
anxious users are similarly marked by grayscale and low aesthetic cohesion, but
less so than those of depressed users. Finally, we show that image features can
be used to predict depression and anxiety, and that multitask learning that
includes a joint modeling of demographics improves prediction performance.
Overall, we find that the image attributes that mark depression and anxiety
offer a rich lens into these conditions largely congruent with the
psychological literature, and that images on Twitter allow inferences about the
mental health status of users.Comment: ICWSM 201
Are Alternative Farmers Yielding Success with Online Marketing and Communication Tools for Their Social Capital and Business Viability?
To foster direct-to-consumer marketing, some alternative farmers are shifting to online tools like social media. What is unknown, however, is how they use them and what impacts use has on their business. The purpose of this study was to characterize and determine influences and outcomes of alternative farmersâ use of various online communication channels to better understand what they stand to gain (or lose) from participation in these activities as it relates to their farm business viability and social capital. Through survey data of 82 alternative farmers, it was learned their personal use of social media was highly correlated with their business use. Most of their time on the Internet was spent finding farming information and finding and interacting with customers; these activities (along with several others) were positively correlated with online bridging social capital. Personal uses of Facebook were indicative of greater social capital, whereas business uses of any social media were not. For business viability, the more Facebook Page likes their farms had, the more revenue they had, but no relationships were found between their business use of social media and customer loyalty or customer relationship. In sum, alternative farmersâ use of online communication tools was positively related to their social capital and their use of Facebook Pages was positively related to farm revenue. This study provides critical benchmark data to later determine the impact of effective use of these tools
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