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Diego B. Las Casas
Researcher at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publications - 5
Citations - 292
Diego B. Las Casas is an academic researcher from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Information privacy. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 5 publications receiving 277 citations.
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Ladies First: Analyzing Gender Roles and Behaviors in Pinterest
Raphael Ottoni,João Paulo Pesce,Diego B. Las Casas,Geraldo Franciscani Jr.,Wagner Meira,Ponnurangam Kumaraguru,Virgilio Almeida +6 more
TL;DR: Analyzing Pinterest in a gender-sensitive fashion, it is observed that, although the network does not encourage direct social communication, females make more use of lightweight interactions than males, and females invest more effort in reciprocating social links.
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Of Pins and Tweets: Investigating How Users Behave Across Image- and Text-Based Social Networks
Raphael Ottoni,Diego B. Las Casas,João Paulo Pesce,Wagner Meira,Christo Wilson,Alan Mislove,Virgilio Almeida +6 more
TL;DR: It is found that the global patterns of use across the two sites differ significantly, and that users tend to post items to Pinterest before posting them on Twitter.
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Privacy attacks in social media using photo tagging networks: a case study with Facebook
TL;DR: This paper quantitatively demonstrates how the simple act of tagging pictures on the social-networking site of Facebook could reveal private user attributes that are extremely sensitive and suggests that photo tags can be used to help predicting some, but not all, of the analyzed attributes.
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Facebook and Privacy: The Balancing Act of Personality, Gender, and Relationship Currency
Daniele Quercia,Diego B. Las Casas,João Paulo Pesce,David Stillwell,Michal Kosinski,Virgilio Almeida,Jon Crowcroft +6 more
TL;DR: This work model the process of information disclosure in a principled way using Item Response Theory and correlate the resulting user disclosure scores with personality traits and finds a correlation with the trait of Openness and observes gender effects, in that, men and women share equal amount of private information, but men tend to make it more publicly available, well beyond their social circles.
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Noticing the other gender on Google
Diego B. Las Casas,Gabriel Magno,Evandro Cunha,Marcos André Gonçalves,César Nardelli Cambraia,Virgilio Almeida +5 more
TL;DR: By analyzing a large dataset, some aspects of self presentation, word use, network information and country of residence among users who choose different alternatives in the field Gender are characterized.