Social Informatics 12th International Conference, SocInfo 2020, Pisa, Italy, October 6–9, 2020, Proceedings

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2020, held in Pisa, Italy, in October 2020. The 30 full and 3 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers presented in this volume cover a broad range of topics, ranging from works that ground information-system design on social concepts, to papers that analyze complex social systems using computational methods, or explore socio-technical systems using social sciences methods.

The Determinants of Social Connectedness in Europe.- Combining Language Models and Network Features for Relevance-based Tweet Classification.- Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-Checking Content during the Covid-19 Pandemic.- Facebook Ads: Politics of Migration in Italy.- It’s Not Just About Sad Songs: The Effect of Depression on Posting Lyrics and Quotes.- Understanding The MeToo Movement Through The Lens Of The Twitter.- Discovering Daily POI Exploitation using a LTECell Tower Access Trace in Urban Environment.- Identifying the Hierarchical Influence Structure Behind Smart Sanctions Using Network Analysis.- Coverage and Evolution of Cancer and its Risk Factors - A quantitative study with Social Signals and Web-Data.- Detecting Engagement Bots on Social Influencer Marketing.- Social Capital as Engagement and Belief Revision.- Employee Satisfaction in Online Reviews.- Stable Community Structures and Social Exclusion.- Inside the x-rated world of “premium” social media accounts.- Impact of Online Health Awareness Campaign: Case of National Eating Disorders Association.- Moral Framing and Ideological Bias of News.- Malicious Bot Detection in Online Social Networks: Arming Handcrafted Features with Deep Learning.- Spam Detection on Arabic Twitter.- Beyond Groups: Uncovering Dynamic Communities on the WhatsApp Network of Information Dissemination.- Structural invariants in individuals language use: the “ego network” of words.- Dynamics of scientific collaboration networks due to academic migrations.- Social Search and Task-related Relevance Dimensions in Microblogging Sites.-Regional Influences on Tourists Mobility Through the Lens of Social Sensing.-Genuine Personal Identifiers and Mutual Sureties for Sybil-Resilient Community Growth.- Political Framing: US COVID19 Blame Game.- Measuring adolescents’ well-being: correspondence of naïve digital traces to survey data.- A Computational Analysis of Polarization on Indian and Pakistani Social Media.- Young Adult Unemployment Through the Lens of Social Media: Italy as a Case Study.- Women worry about family, men about the economy: Gender differences in emotional responses to COVID19.- Jump on the Bandwagon? Characterizing Bandwagon Phenomenon in Online NBA Fan Communities.- ALONE: A Dataset for Toxic Behavior among Adolescents on Twitter.- Cross-domain Classification of Facial Appearance of Leaders.- The Effect of Structural Affinity on the Diffusion of a Transnational Online Movement: the Case of #MeToo.