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Vladimir Barash
Researcher at Cornell University
Publications - 26
Citations - 1274
Vladimir Barash is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Complex contagion. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 25 publications receiving 1171 citations. Previous affiliations of Vladimir Barash include Harvard University & Johns Hopkins University.
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System and method for a search engine content filter
TL;DR: In this article, a targeted search within sites/accounts with high cluster focus for a chosen segment is described, which includes presenting, to a user, a computer interface for specifying one or more search terms for a search query.
Proceedings Article
Investigating the Observability of Complex Contagion in Empirical Social Networks.
TL;DR: This work shows an alternative method for fitting probabilistic complex contagion models to empirical data that avoids measuring thresholds directly, and results indicate bias in observed thresholds under both complex and simple models.
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Whither the Experts? Social Affordances and the Cultivation of Experts in Community Q&A Systems
TL;DR: Using insights from recent research in online community, a series of expectations about how social affordances are likely to alter the role ecology of online systems are generated.
Dissertation
The dynamics of social contagion
Michael W. Macy,Vladimir Barash +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the dynamics of social contagion, employing a combination of formal analysis, simulation, and empirical data mining approaches to examine the processes whereby social contagions spreads throughout social networks.
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Salience vs. commitment: dynamics of political hashtags in Russian Twitter
Vladimir Barash,John Kelly +1 more
TL;DR: This work constructs a system for classifying contagious phenomena based on the properties of their propagation dynamics, applicable to phenomena in any social media platform or genre, and applies it to a dataset of news-related and political hashtags diffusing through the population of Russian Twitter users.