COSMOS – Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies

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At COSMOS, we are studying various aspects of social media and online behavior – the good, bad and the ugly. From Autism awareness campaigns to ISIS’ and anti-West/anti-NATO propaganda campaigns, at COSMOS, Dr. Agarwal is directing several projects with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Army Research Office (ARO), U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR), U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), and U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Research at COSMOS has made contributions to computational social network analysis and advanced the studies in social cyber security, cyber campaign coordination, identifying powerful actors and groups, disinformation dissemination across social media, cyber threat monitoring, social-cyber forensics, health informatics, data mining, and privacy. COSMOS has developed publicly available social media mining tools, Blogtrackers and YouTubeTracker, used during the NATO’s military exercises. COSMOS participates in the national Tech Innovation Hub launched by the U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center to defeat foreign based propaganda.

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COSMOS @cosmographers·

7 Jun

UALR COSMOS Celebrates Graduating Class of 2021!
Congratulations to our 2021 COSMOSGraphers! A culmination of years of hard work, perseverance and academic achievement.

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Zachary Kimo Stine @zacharykstine·

22 Apr

I will be defending my dissertation on computational methods for comparative discourse analyses today at noon US central time (1pm eastern). If you’d like to drop by, send me a DM for the link.

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Nitin Agarwal @agarwalnitin·

22 Apr

It was great fun to speak with @THVCraig! Thank you Craig for spending time and talking with us. We appreciate @THV11 for covering the work @cosmographers are doing in making social media safer and contribute to social good.

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COSMOS @cosmographers·

16 Apr

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock @UALR has selected COSMOS director Dr. Nitin Agarwal as the 2021 Faculty Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavors winner. Congratulations! #facultyexcellence https://ualr.edu/news/2021/04/15/briscoe-agarwal-macfarlane-faculty-excellence/

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16 Apr

Congratulations to Seun on successfully defending his master's project. He will start his next career at Intuit, Inc. in Mountain View, CA, as a Software Engineer.

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COSMOS @cosmographers·

16 Apr

Congratulations to Dr. Tuja Khaund on successfully defending her doctoral dissertation. We wish her all the best for her future career at Walmart in Bentonville as a senior Data Scientist in the graph theory group.

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12 Apr

Dr. Esther Mead will be presenting her work "Proposing a Broader Scope of Predictive Features for Modeling Refugee Counts" at the The Web Conference Workshop Data Science for Social Good on April 14. For more information about WWW2021 (@TheWebConf), visit https://www2021.thewebconf.org/

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6 Apr

The @IEEEorg Special Issue on Cyber Social Health features an article by guest editor Dr. Nitin Agarwal: "When the Bad is Good and the Good is Bad: Understanding Cyber Social Health Through Online Behavioral Change" - https://cosmos.ualr.edu/dr-nitin-agarwal-edits-ieee-special-issue-on-cyber-social-health/

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Find out about COVID-19 misinformation, read tips on how to identify it and report it.

Cosmographers attend CRA URMD Grad Cohort Workshop

Joseph Kready: 2020 Social Networks and Health Fellow

The latest about COSMOS

Oluwaseun Johnson Successfully Defends his Master’s Project

Tuja Khaund Successfully Defends her Doctoral Dissertation

Dr. Nitin Agarwal Edits IEEE Special Issue on Cyber Social Health

Adeola Adesoba awarded STEAM Scholarship

COSMOS Paper Wins Best Paper Award

COSMOS Develops Techniques to Identify Adversarial Information Operations Tactics

COSMOS Research about Online Influence Campaigns On YouTube Leading Up To Canadian Election Published by Queen’s University

COSMOS Paper Published in Text2Story’20 Workshop

COSMOS Team Places in Governor’s Cup and Wins $10,000

Tuja Khaund presenting her research about online social networks at UALR EIT Colloquium

Arkansas Attorney General partners with COSMOS to Track False COVID-19 Websites and Online Scams.

Three Cosmographers attend CRA URMD Grad Cohort Workshop in Austin

Joseph Kready accepted into 2020 Social Networks and Health Fellowship Program

Muhammad Nihal Hussain Successfully Defends his Doctoral Dissertation

Baris Kirdemir’s Chapter Published in ‘Computational Conflict Research’

Zachary Stine’s Paper Published in ‘Social Network Analysis and Mining’

Kiran Kumar Bandeli Successfully Defends his Doctoral Dissertation

Billy Spann Successfully Defends his Master’s Thesis

Karen DiCicco Successfully Defended her Master’s Thesis.

US Senator Boozman Gains Insights on COSMOS Research During Campus Visit

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