Publications

Ramy Baly, Georgi Karadzhov, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Yoan Dinkov, Ahmed Ali, James Glass, Preslav Nakov (2020). What Was Written vs. Who Read It: News Media Profiling Using Text Analysis and Social Media Context. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

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Soumen Ganguly, Juhi Kulshrestha, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak (2020). Empirical Evaluation of Three Common Assumptions in Building Political Media Bias Datasets. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).

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Joni Salminen, Joao M. Santos, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Soon-gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen (2020). Persona Perception Scale: Development and Exploratory Validation of an Instrument for Evaluating Individuals’ Perceptions of Personas. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

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George Berry, Antonio Sirianni, Ingmar Weber, Jisun An, Michael Macy (2020). Going beyond accuracy: estimating homophily in social networks using predictions. arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.11171.

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Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Yong-Yeol Ahn (2020). FrameAxis: Characterizing Framing Bias and Intensity with Word Embedding. arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.08608.

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Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Yong-Yeol Ahn (2020). A Systematic Media Frame Analysis of 1.5 Million New York Times Articles from 2000 to 2017. 12th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci).

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Yifan Zhang, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Salvatore Romeo, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Todor Staykovski, Israa Jaradat, Georgi Karadzhov, Ramy Baly, Kareem Darwish, James Glass, Preslav Nakov (2019). Tanbih: Get To Know What You Are Reading. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations.

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Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Jisun An, Bernard J. Jansen (2019). View, Like, Comment, Post: Analyzing User Engagement by Topic at 4 Levels across 5 Social Media Platforms for 53 News Organizations. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).

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Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Oliver Posegga, Andreas Jungherr (2019). Political Discussions in Homogeneous and Cross-Cutting Communication Spaces. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).

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Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Jisun An, Bernard J. Jansen (2019). The Challenges of Creating Engaging Content: Results from a Focus Group Study of a Popular News Media Organization. Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

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Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Jisun An, Bernard J. Jansen (2019). Stylistic Features Usage: Similarities and Differences Using Multiple Social Networks. Social Informatics (SocInfo).

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Arkaitz Zubiaga, Bahareh Heravi, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak (2019). Social media mining for journalism. Online Information Review.

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Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Jisun An, Bernard J. Jansen (2019). Predicting Audience Engagement Across Social Media Platforms in the News Domain. Social Informatics (SocInfo).

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Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak (2019). Gender and Racial Diversity in Commercial Brands' Advertising Images on Social Media. Social Informatics (SocInfo).

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Andreas Jungherr, Oliver Posegga, Jisun An (2019). Discursive Power in Contemporary Media Systems: A Comparative Framework. The International Journal of Press/Politics (IJPP).

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Joni Salminen, Mridul Nagpal, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Soon-gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen (2019). Confusion Prediction from Eye-Tracking Data: Experiments with Machine Learning. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Systems and Technologies.

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Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Soon-Gyo Jung (2019). Automatic Persona Generation for Online Content Creators: Conceptual Rationale and a Research Agenda. Personas - User Focused Design.

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Managing Editor, Jisun An, Rumi Chunara, David J. Crandall, Darian Frajberg, Megan French, Bernard J. Jansen, Juhi Kulshrestha, Yelena Mejova, Daniel M. Romero, Joni Salminen, Amit Sharma, Amit Sheth, Chenhao Tan, Samuel Hardman Taylor, Sanjaya Wijeratne (2018). Reports of the Workshops Held at the 2018 International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. AI Magazine.

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J. An, H. Kwak, S. Jung, J. Salminen, M. Admad, B. Jansen (2018). Imaginary People Representing Real Numbers: Generating Personas from Online Social Media Data. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB).

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Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Yong-Yeol Ahn (2018). SemAxis: A Lightweight Framework to Characterize Domain-Specific Word Semantics Beyond Sentiment. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

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Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen (2018). What We Read, What We Search: Media Attention and Public Attention Among 193 Countries. Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference (TheWeb).

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Joni Salminen, Haewoon Kwak, João M. Santos, Soon-Gyo Jung, Jisun An, Bernard J. Jansen (2018). Persona Perception Scale: Developing and Validating an Instrument for Human-Like Representations of Data. Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

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Joni Salminen, Sercan Şengün, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J Jansen, Jisun An, Soon-gyo Jung, Sarah Vieweg, D Fox Harrell (2018). From 2,772 segments to five personas: Summarizing a diverse online audience by generating culturally adapted personas. First Monday.

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Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen, Jisun An, Soon-Gyo Jung, Lene Nielsen, Haewoon Kwak (2018). Fixation and Confusion: Investigating Eye-Tracking Participants' Exposure to Information in Personas. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR).

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Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J. Jansen (2018). Findings of a User Study of Automatically Generated Personas. Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

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Jisun An, Ingmar Weber (2018). Diversity in Online Advertising: A Case Study of 69 Brands on Social Media. Social Informatics (SocInfo).

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Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Soon-gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Bernard J Jansen (2018). Customer segmentation using online platforms: isolating behavioral and demographic segments for persona creation via aggregated user data. Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM).

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Soon-gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard Jansen (2018). Automatically Conceptualizing Social Media Analytics Data via Personas.

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Soon-gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Bernard J. Jansen (2018). Automatic Persona Generation (APG): A Rationale and Demonstration. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR).

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Soon-gyo Jung, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Joni Salminen, Bernard Jansen (2018). Assessing the Accuracy of Four Popular Face Recognition Tools for Inferring Gender, Age, and Race.

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Joni Salminen, Bernard J Jansen, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Soon-Gyo Jung, others (2018). Are personas done?: Evaluating the usefulness of personas in the age of online analytics. Persona Studies.

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Joni Salminen, Hind Almerekhi, Milica Milenković, Soon-gyo Jung, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard Jansen (2018). Anatomy of Online Hate: Developing a Taxonomy and Machine Learning Models for Identifying and Classifying Hate in Online News Media.

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Joni Salminen, Lene Nielsen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J. Jansen (2018). 'Is More Better?': Impact of Multiple Photos on Perception of Persona Profiles. Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

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Jisun An, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Nir Grinberg, Kenneth Joseph, Alexios Mantzarlis, Gregory Maus, Filippo Menczer, Nicholas Proferes, Brooke Foucault Welles (2017). Reports of the Workshops Held at the 2017 International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. AI Magazine.

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B. J. Jansen, S. Jung, J. Salminen, J. An, H. Kwa (2017). Leveraging Social Analytics Data for Identifying Customer Segments for Online News Media. 2017 IEEE/ACS 14th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA).

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J. Salminen, S. Sengün, H. Kwak, B. Jansen, J. An, S. Jung, S. Vieweg, D. F. Harrell (2017). Generating Cultural Personas from Social Data: A Perspective of Middle Eastern Users. 2017 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud Workshops (FiCloudW).

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Lene Nielsen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Jisun An, Joni Salminen, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J. Jansen (2017). Who Are Your Users? Comparing Media Professionals' Preconception of Users to Data-Driven Personas. Proceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction.

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Jisun An, Haewon Kwak (2017). What Gets Media Attention and How Media Attention Evolves Over Time: Large-Scale Empirical Evidence from 196 Countries.

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Bernard J. Jansen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak (2017). Viewed by too many or viewed too little: Using information dissemination for audience segmentation. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).

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Jisun An, David J. Crandall, Roman Fedorov, Casey Fiesler, Fabio Giglietto, Bahareh Heravi, Jessica Pater, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Daniele Quercia, Katrin Weller, Arkaitz Zubiaga (2017). Reports of the Workshops Held at the 2016 International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. AI Magazine.

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Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard J. Jansen (2017). Personas for Content Creators via Decomposed Aggregate Audience Statistics. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM).

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Soon-Gyo Jung, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Moeed Ahmad, Lene Nielsen, Bernard J. Jansen (2017). Persona Generation from Aggregated Social Media Data. Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

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Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An (2017). Multiplex Media Attention and Disregard Network among 129 Countries. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM).

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Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak (2017). Multidimensional Analysis of the News Consumption of Different Demographic Groups on a Nationwide Scale. Social Informatics (SocInfo).

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Soon-Gyo Jung, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Joni Salminen, Bernard J Jansen (2017). Inferring social media users’ demographics from profile pictures: A Face++ analysis on Twitter users. Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Electronic Business.

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Julio C.S. Reis, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Johnnatan Messias, Fabrício Benevenuto (2017). Demographics of News Sharing in the U.S. Twittersphere. Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext).

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Jisun An, Haewon Kwak (2017). Data-Driven Approach to Measuring the Level of Press Freedom Using Media Attention Diversity from Unfiltered News.

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Jisun An, Hassan Aldarbesti, Haewoon Kwak (2017). Convergence of Media Attention Across 129 Countries. Social Informatics (SocInfo).

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J. An, H. Kwak, B. J. Jansen (2016). Validating social media data for automatic persona generation. 2016 IEEE/ACS 13th International Conference of Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA).

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J. An, H. Cho, H. Kwak, M. Z. Hassen, B. J. Jansen (2016). Towards Automatic Persona Generation Using Social Media. 2016 IEEE 4th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud Workshops (FiCloudW).

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Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An (2016). Two Tales of the World: Comparison of Widely Used World News Datasets GDELT and EventRegistry.

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Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An (2016). Revealing the Hidden Patterns of News Photos: Analysis of Millions of News Photos through GDELT and Deep Learning-based Vision APIs.

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Soo-Yong Shin, Dong-Woo Seo, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Sung-Han Kim, Jin Gwack, Min-Woo Jo (2016). High correlation of Middle East respiratory syndrome spread with Google search and Twitter trends in Korea. Scientific reports.

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Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Yelena Mejova, Sonia Alonso Saenz De Oger, Braulio Gomez Fortes (2016). Are You Charlie or Ahmed? Cultural Pluralism in Charlie Hebdo Response on Twitter.

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Jisun An, Ingmar Weber (2016). #greysanatomy vs. #yankees: Demographics and Hashtag Use on Twitter.

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Jisun An, Ingmar Weber (2015). Whom should we sense in 'social sensing'-analyzing which users work best for social media now-casting. EPJ Data Science.

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S. Abbar, A. Jisun, H. Kwak, M. Yacine, B. H. Javier (2015). Consumers and suppliers: attention asymmetries. A case study of Al Jazeera’s news coverage and comments. Computational Journalism Symposium.

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Julio Rieis, Fabrício de Souza, Pedro Vaz de Melo, Raquel Prates, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An (2015). Breaking the News: First Impressions Matter on Online News.

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Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An (2014). Understanding News Geography and Major Determinants of Global News Coverage of Disasters. Computational Journalism Symposium.

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Jisun An, Daniele Quercia, Meeyoung Cha, Krishna Gummadi, Jon Crowcroft (2014). Sharing political news: the balancing act of intimacy and socialization in selective exposure. EPJ Data Science.

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Jisun An, Daniele Quercia, Jon Crowcroft (2014). Recommending Investors for Crowdfunding Projects. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW).

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Jisun An, Daniele Quercia, Jon Crowcroft (2014). Partisan Sharing: Facebook Evidence and Societal Consequences. Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN).

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Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An (2014). A first look at global news coverage of disasters by using the gdelt dataset. International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo).

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Jisun An, Daniele Quercia, Jon Crowcroft (2013). Why Individuals Seek Diverse Opinions (or Why They Don't). Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci).

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Fabio Pezzoni, Jisun An, Andrea Passarella, Jon Crowcroft, Marco Conti (2013). Why Do I Retweet It? An Information Propagation Model for Microblogs. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo).

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Jisun An, Daniele Quercia, Meeyoung Cha, Krishna Gummadi, Jon Crowcroft (2013). Traditional Media Seen from Social Media. Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci).

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Jisun An, Daniele Quercia, Jon Crowcroft (2013). Fragmented Social Media: A Look into Selective Exposure to Political News. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW).

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Jisun An, Meeyoung Cha, Krishna Gummadi, Jon Crowcroft, Daniele Quercia (2012). Visualizing Media Bias through Twitter.

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Jisun An, Meeyoung Cha, Krishna Gummadi, Jon Crowcroft (2011). Media Landscape in Twitter: A World of New Conventions and Political Diversity.

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Jaesung Ku, Yangwoo Ko, Jisun An, Dongman Lee (2010). A social transitivity-based data dissemination scheme for opportunistic networks. 2010 IEEE International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM).

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Byoungheon Shin, Yangwoo Ko, Jisun An, Dongman Lee (2009). Interference-aware routing protocol in multi-radio wireless mesh networks. Proceedings of the 4th international conference on future internet technologies.

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Jisun An, Yangwoo Ko, Dongman Lee (2009). A social relation aware routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom).

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