Social Informatics: 8th International Conference, SocInfo 2016, Bellevue, WA, USA, November 11-14, 2

Networks, Communities, and Groups.- How Well Do Doodle Polls Do.- Bring on Board New Enthusiasts! A Case Study of Impact of Wikipedia Art + Feminism Editathon Events on Newcomers.- The Social Dynamics of Language Change in Online Networks.- On URL Changes and Handovers in Social Media.- CommentProfiler: Detecting trends and parasitic behaviors in online comments.- On Profiling Bots in Social Media.- A Diffusion Model for Maximizing Influence Spread in Large Networks.- Lightweight Interactions for Reciprocal Cooperation in a Social Network Game.- Continuous Recipe Selection Model based on Cooking History.- Politics, News, and Events.- Examining Community Policing on Twitter: Precinct Use and Community Response.- The Dynamics of Group Risk Perception in the US After Paris Attacks.- Determining the veracity of rumours on Twitter.- PicHunt: Social Media Image Retrieval for Improved Law Enforcement.- TwitterNews+: A Framework for Real Time Event Detection from the Twitter Data Stream.- Uncovering Topic Dynamics of Social Media and News: the Case of Ferguson.- Identifying Partisan Slant in News Articles and Twitter during Political Crises.- Predicting Poll Trends using Twitter and Multivariate Timeseries Classification.- Inferring Population Preferences via Mixtures of Spatial Voting Models.- Contrasting Public Opinion Dynamics and Emotional Response during Crisis.- Social Politics: Agenda Setting and Political Communication on Social Media.- Markets, Crowds, and Consumers.- Preference Aware Successive POI Recommendation With Spatial and Temporal Influence.- User Recommendation in Event based Social Networks.- An Effective Approach to Finding a Context Path in Review Texts Using Pathfinder Scaling.- How to find accessible Free WiFi at Tourist Spots in Japan.- Privacy, Health and Wellbeing.- Mobile Communication Signatures of Unemployment.- Identifying Stereotypes in the Online Perception of Physical Attractiveness.- What Makes A Good Professor? An Analysis of Students' Evaluations across Institutions, Disciplines, and Cultures.- Detecting Coping Style from Twitter.- User Privacy Concerns with Common Data Used in Recommender Systems.- How a user's personality influences content engagement in social media.- Semisupervised knowledge extraction for detection of drugs and their effects.- Using Social Media to Measure Student Wellbeing: A LargeScale Study of Emotional Response in Academic Discourse.- EmojiNet: Building a Machine Readable Sense Inventory for Emoji.