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06/15/2023
Ghost Booking as a New Philanthropy Channel: A Case Study on Ukraine-Russia Conflict
The term ghost booking has recently emerged as a new way to conduct huma...
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04/20/2023
Can ChatGPT Reproduce Human-Generated Labels? A Study of Social Computing Tasks
The release of ChatGPT has uncovered a range of possibilities whereby la...
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04/11/2023
Lady and the Tramp Nextdoor: Online Manifestations of Real-World Inequalities in the Nextdoor Social Network
From health to education, income impacts a huge range of life choices. M...
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11/11/2022
Exploring Mental Health Communications among Instagram Coaches
There has been a significant expansion in the use of online social netwo...
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08/11/2022
Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web
Recent years have witnessed growing consolidation of web operations. For...
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04/27/2022
Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing
The "Decentralised Web" (DW) is an evolving concept, which encompasses t...
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03/06/2022
Twitter Dataset for 2022 Russo-Ukrainian Crisis
Online Social Networks (OSNs) play a significant role in information sha...
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10/26/2021
Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case
Decentralising the Web is a desirable but challenging goal. One particul...
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10/14/2021
Understanding the Evolution of Blockchain Ecosystems: A Longitudinal Measurement Study of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and EOSIO
The continuing expansion of the blockchain ecosystems has attracted much...
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06/08/2021
Tackling spam in the era of end-to-end encryption: A case study of WhatsApp
WhatsApp is a popular messaging app used by over a billion users around ...
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11/18/2020
A First Look at COVID-19 Messages on WhatsApp in Pakistan
The worldwide spread of COVID-19 has prompted extensive online discussio...
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06/19/2020
Vetting Security and Privacy of Global COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications
The rapid spread of COVID-19 has made traditional manual contact tracing...
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05/15/2020
Analyzing Temporal Relationships between Trending Terms on Twitter and Urban Dictionary Activity
As an online, crowd-sourced, open English-language slang dictionary, the...
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04/23/2020
Characterising User Content on a Multi-lingual Social Network
Social media has been on the vanguard of political information diffusion...
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02/13/2020
Characterizing EOSIO Blockchain
EOSIO has become one of the most popular blockchain platforms since its ...
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02/01/2020
Dissecting the Workload of a Major Adult Video Portal
Adult content constitutes a major source of Internet traffic. As with ma...
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09/13/2019
An Empirical Study of the Cost of DNS-over-HTTPS
DNS is a vital component for almost every networked application. Origina...
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09/12/2019
Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case
The Decentralised Web (DW) has recently seen a renewed momentum, with a ...
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03/16/2019
Pythia: a Framework for the Automated Analysis of Web Hosting Environments
A common approach when setting up a website is to utilize third party We...
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03/04/2019
A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications in Computer Networking Research
This study uses the article content and metadata of four important compu...
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02/15/2019
Who Watches the Watchmen: Exploring Complaints on the Web
Under increasing scrutiny, many web companies now offer bespoke mechanis...
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01/23/2019
The Chain of Implicit Trust: An Analysis of the Web Third-party Resources Loading
The Web is a tangled mass of interconnected services, where websites imp...
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12/14/2018
Trollslayer: Crowdsourcing and Characterization of Abusive Birds in Twitter
As of today, abuse is a pressing issue to participants and administrator...
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04/09/2018
On Analyzing Self-Driving Networks: A Systems Thinking Approach
The networking field has recently started to incorporate artificial inte...
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04/08/2018
Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Exploring Illegal Streaming Cyberlockers
Online video piracy (OVP) is a contentious topic, with strong proponents...
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03/07/2018