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Social Provenance

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Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining

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Data mining; Disinformation; Information provenance; Misinformation; Provenance paths; Social computing; Social media; Social network

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Information Provenance:

Sources of a piece of information.

Social Computing:

An area of computer science that is concerned with the intersection of social behavior and computational systems (Social Computing).

Social Media:

A group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0 and that allow the creation and exchanges of user-generated content (Kaplan and Haenlein 2010).

Data Mining:

The computational process of discovering patterns in large datasets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and database systems (Data Mining).

Social Network:

A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors (Social...

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Feng, Z., Gundecha, P., Liu, H. (2017). Social Provenance. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_388-1

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