- Part I: Detecting social problems in online content : an international workshop: 1. Methodological challenges for detecting interethnic hostility on social media / Olessia Koltsova
- 2. Agglomerative method for texts clustering / Andrey V. Orekhov
- 3. User ethnicity and gender as predictors of attitudes to ethnic groups in social media texts / Oleg Nagornyy
- 4. Holistic monitoring and analysis of healthcare processes through public internet data collection / Oleg G. Metsker, Sergey A. Sikorskiy, Anna A. Semakova, Alexey V. Krikunov, Marina A. Balakhontceva, Natalia B. Melnikova, Sergey V. Kovalchuk
- 5. "All these ..." : negative opinion about people and "pejorative plural" in Russian / Olga Blinova
- 6. Detecting pivotal points in social conflicts via topic modeling of Twitter content / Anna S. Smoliarova, Svetlana S. Bodrunova, Alexandr V. Yakunin, Ivan Blekanov, Alexey Maksimov
- 7. Patterns of emotional argumentation in Twitter discussions / Kamilla Nigmatullina, Svetlana S. Bodrunova.
- Part II: CONVERSATIONS 2018 : 2nd International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Design: 8. Adapting a conversational text generator for online Chatbot messaging / Lorenz Cuno Klopfenstein, Saverio Delpriori, Alessio Ricci
- 9. Generating responses expressing emotion in an open-domain dialogue system / Chenyang Huang, Osmar R. Zaïane
- 10. Measuring user experience in Chatbots : an approach to interpersonal communication competence / Marita Skjuve, Petter Bae Brandzaeg
- 11. Assessing the usability of a Chatbot for mental health care / Gillian Cameron, David Cameron, Gavin Megaw, Raymond Bond, Maurice Mulvenna, Siobhan O'Neill, Cherie Armour, Michael McTear
- 12. A conversational interface for self-screening for ADHD in adults / Robin Håvik, Jo Dugstad Wake, Eivind Flobak, Astri Lundervold, Frode Guribye
- 13. Different Chatbots for different purposes : towards a typology of Chatbots to understand interaction design / Asbjørn Følstad, Marita Skjuve, Petter Bae Brandtzaeg
- 14. Chasing the Chatbots : directions for interaction and design research / Lara S.G. Piccolo, Martino Mensio, Harith Alani
- 15. Chatbot personalities matters : improving the user experience of Chatbot interfaces / Tuva Lunde Smestad, Frode Volden.
- Part III: The future of decentralized governance : an international workshop: 16. Decentralizing the social Web : can blockchains solve ten years of standardization failure of the social Web? / Harry Halpin
- 17. Distributed data protection and liability on blockchains / Alexandra Giannopoulou, Valeria Ferrari
- 18. Blockchain revolution in global environmental governance : too good to be true? / Alina V. Vladimirova
- 19. Privacy and social movements / Iness Ben Guirat.
- Part IV: Internet as an issue : an international workshop on government and media narratives: 20. Governing through imagination : approaching internet governance in authoritarian contexts / Dimitry Muravyov
- 21. Imagining internet in contemporary Russia : an attempt in operationalization of sociotechnical imaginaries / Alexandra Keidiia
- 22. Actors to be distinguished : the case of NGOs as stakeholders of Russian internet / Polina Kolozaridi
- 23. Trying to keep bloggers under control : the birth and death of the "bloggers law" in Russia (2014-2017) / Il'ia A. Bykov, Andrei Y. Dorskii, Irina A. Gladchenko
- 24. The internet is plural : the sociopolitical shaping of the Russian and Korean "internets" / Inkyu Kang, Alexander N. Marchenko.
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of 4 workshops, held at the 5th International Conference on Internet Science, St. Petersburg, Russia, in October 2018: Workshop 1 : Detecting Social Problems in Online Content, Workshop 2: CONVERSATIONS, Workshop 3: The Future of Decentralized Governance: A Workshop on Encryption, Blockchains, and Personal Data, and Workshop 4: Internet as an issue: An international workshop on governmentand media narratives. The 20 full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The contributions of the Workshop 1: Detecting Social Problems in Online Content has united Russian scholars who work upon Russian-language datasets. Workshop 2: CONVERSATIONS: An international workshop on chatbot research and design regularly discusses the novel issues in their research and production area. Workshop 3: The Future of Decentralized Governance: A Workshop on Encryption, Blockchains, and Personal Data. At this workshop scholars and industry representatives from France, the Netherlands, the UK, and Russia have discussed distributed governance technologies based on blockchain and other privacy-protecting technologies. Workshop 4: Internet as an issue: An international workshop on government and media narratives took a rare approach and regarded Internet as a focus for public discussion.
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