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Contracting the Facebook API [PDF]
EPTCS 35, 2010, pp. 63-74, 2010 In recent years, there has been an explosive growth in the popularity of online social networks such as Facebook. In a new twist, third party developers are now able to create their own web applications which plug into Facebook and work with Facebook's "social" data, enabling the entire Facebook user base of more than 400 million active users to use ...
Ben Rubinger +11 more
arxiv +8 more sources
Facebook Shadow Profiles [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 We quantify Facebook's ability to build shadow profiles by tracking individuals across the web, irrespective of whether they are users of the social network. For a representative sample of US Internet users, we find that Facebook is able to track about 40 percent of the browsing time of both users and non-users of Facebook, including on privacy ...
Aguiar, Luis +3 more
arxiv +7 more sources
Demographic Differentials in Facebook Usage Around the World [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 We use data from the Facebook Advertisement Platform to study patterns of demographic disparities in usage of Facebook across countries. We address three main questions: (1) How does Facebook usage differ by age and by gender around the world? (2) How does the size of friendship networks vary by age and by gender?
Gil-Clavel, Sofia, Zagheni, Emilio
arxiv +3 more sources
An Applied Study on Educational Use of Facebook as a Web 2.0 Tool: The Sample Lesson of Computer Networks and Communication [PDF]
, 2010 The main aim of the research was to examine educational use of Facebook. The Computer Networks and Communication lesson was taken as the sample and the attitudes of the students included in the study group towards Facebook were measured in a semi-experimental setup.
Cakir, Ozlem, Kayri, Murat
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The reach of commercially motivated junk news on Facebook [PDF]
PLoS ONE 2019, 14(8): e0220446, 2019 Commercially motivated junk news -- i.e. money-driven, highly shareable clickbait with low journalistic production standards -- constitutes a vast and largely unexplored news media ecosystem. Using publicly available Facebook data, we compared the reach of junk news on Facebook pages in the Netherlands to the reach of Dutch mainstream news on Facebook.
Burger, Peter +3 more
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Using Facebook for Image Steganography [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 Because Facebook is available on hundreds of millions of desktop and mobile computing platforms around the world and because it is available on many different kinds of platforms (from desktops and laptops running Windows, Unix, or OS X to hand held devices running iOS, Android, or Windows Phone), it would seem to be the perfect place to conduct ...
Dakve, Tejas +3 more
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Challenges of capturing engagement on Facebook for Altmetrics [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Previous research shows that, despite its popularity, Facebook is less frequently used to share academic content. In order to investigate this discrepancy we set out to explore engagement numbers through their Graph API by querying the Facebook API with multiple URLs for a random set of 103,539 articles from the Web of Science.
Alperin, Juan Pablo, Enkhbayar, Asura
arxiv +4 more sources
Ethics and social networking sites: A disclosive analysis of Facebook [PDF]
, 2010 Paper has been accepted for publication in Information, Technology and People.Purpose: This paper provides insights into the moral values embodied by a popular social networking site (SNS), Facebook.
Light, B, McGrath, K
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On Generative Spoken Language Modeling from Raw Audio
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021 We introduce Generative Spoken Language Modeling, the task of learning the acoustic and linguistic characteristics of a language from raw audio (no text, no labels), and a set of metrics to automatically evaluate the learned representations at acoustic ...
Kushal Lakhotia +10 more
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IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2021 We present a compact, flat-panel phased-array antenna design that beam steers using only mechanical in-plane rotations. We explain the steering mechanism and characterize the beam analytically and numerically.
Qi Tang +7 more
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