Derek Weber
Higher Degree by Research Candidate
School of Computer Science
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
I have worked as a researcher with the Defence Science and Technology Group since 1998 and am now a PhD student. My research examines how automation and coordinated behaviour on online social media are exploited in attempts to sway public opinion.
My research focuses on the detection and analysis of groups and communities on social media that engage in spreading narratives, particularly at times of political significance or social crisis (e.g., election campaigns and pandemics, respectively), but also the question of the validity of social media analytics in general.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 1998 - ongoing Computer Scientist Defence Science and Technology Organisation -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2003 - 2008 University of Adelaide Australia Masters of Defence Science 1998 - 1998 Flinders University Australia Bachelor of Science (Honours) 1995 - 1997 Flinders University Australia Bachelor of Science -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2022 Weber, D., Falzon, L., Mitchell, L., & Nasim, M. (2022). Promoting and countering misinformation during Australia’s 2019–2020 bushfires: a case study of polarisation. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 12(1), 64.
2021 Weber, D., Nasim, M., Mitchell, L., & Falzon, L. (2021). Exploring the effect of streamed social media data variations on social network analysis. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 11(1), 62-1-62-38.
Scopus22021 Weber, D., & Neumann, F. (2021). A General Method to Find Highly Coordinating Communities in Social Media through Inferred Interaction Links.. CoRR, abs/2103.03409. 2021 Assenmacher, D., Weber, D., Preuss, M., Calero Valdez, A., Bradshaw, A., Ross, B., . . . Grimme, C. (2021). Benchmarking Crisis in Social Media Analytics: A Solution for the Data-Sharing Problem. Social Science Computer Review, 089443932110122.
Scopus3 WoS32021 Weber, D., & Falzon, L. (2021). Temporal Nuances of Coordination Networks.. CoRR, abs/2107.02588. 2021 Weber, D., & Neumann, F. (2021). Amplifying influence through coordinated behaviour in social networks. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 11(1), 1-42.
Scopus72019 Butavicius, M., Parsons, K., McCormac, A., Dennis, S., Ceglar, A., Weber, D., . . . Powers, D. (2019). Using Semantic Context to Rank the Results of Keyword Search. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 35(9), 725-741.
Scopus2 WoS22019 Butavicius, M. A., Parsons, K. M., McCormac, A., Dennis, S. J., Ceglar, A., Weber, D., . . . Powers, D. M. (2019). Using Semantic Context to Rank the Results of Keyword Search.. Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact., 35, 725-741. Nasim, M., Weber, D., South, T., Tuke, J., Bean, N., Falzon, L., & Mitchell, L. (n.d.). Are we always in strife? A longitudinal study of the echo chamber effect
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2020 Weber, D., Nasim, M., Mitchell, L., & Falzon, L. (2020). A method to evaluate the reliability of social media data for social network analysis. In M. Atzmüller, M. Coscia, & R. Missaoui (Eds.), Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM2020) (pp. 317-321). online: IEEE.
Scopus7 WoS52020 Weber, D., & Neumann, F. (2020). Who's in the Gang? Revealing Coordinating Communities in Social Media.. In Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) Vol. 2020.9381418 (pp. 89-93). New York, USA: IEEE.
Scopus6 WoS42020 Weber, D., Nasim, M., Falzon, L., & Mitchell, L. (2020). #ArsonEmergency and Australia's "Black Summer": Polarisation and misinformation on social media. In Proceedings of the 2nd Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM), as published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 12259 (pp. 159-173). Switzerland: Springer.
Scopus62018 Pattison, T., Ceglar, A., & Weber, D. (2018). Efficient formal concept analysis through recursive context partitioning. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 2123 (pp. 219-230).
Scopus22014 Pattison, T., Weber, D., & Ceglar, A. (2014). Enhancing layout and interaction in formal concept analysis. In I. Fujishiro, U. Brandes, H. Hagen, & S. Takahashi (Eds.), IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (pp. 248-252). Keio Univ, Yokohama, JAPAN: IEEE.
Scopus5 WoS22013 McCormac, A., Parsons, K., Butavicius, M., Ceglar, A., Weber, D., Pattison, T., . . . Powers, D. (2013). Interfaces for discourse summarisation: A human factors analysis. In H. Shen, R. T. Smith, J. Paay, P. R. Calder, & T. G. Wyeld (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: Augmentation, Application, Innovation, Collaboration, OzCHI 2013 (pp. 139-142). ACM Press.
Scopus12004 Weber, D., & Phillips, M. (2004). An Architecture for Multi-View Information Overlays.. In N. Churcher, & C. Churcher (Eds.), InVis.au Vol. 35 (pp. 9-15). Australian Computer Society.
Australia-Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme 2019, for collaboration with the University of Münster, Germany, titled "Detection and classification of malicious virtual grassroots influence campaigns in social media".
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