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title: "Computational Perspectives on Social Phenomena at Global Scales"
authors:
  - "Jon M. Kleinberg"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/12"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/0012.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2013
pages: "2-3"
track: ""
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# Computational Perspectives on Social Phenomena at Global Scales

Jon M. Kleinberg

*Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 2-3.

## Abstract

The growth of social media and on-line social networks has opened up a set of fascinating new challenges and directions for researchers in both computing and the social sciences, and an active interface is growing between these areas. We discuss a set of basic questions that arise in the design and analysis of systems supporting on-line social interactions, focusing on two main issues: the role of network structure in the dynamics of social media sites, and the analysis of textual data as a way to study properties of on-line social interaction.