Winter Mason's Publications

Journal Publications & Conference Proceedings Download CV as PDF

Kooti, F., Subbian, K., Mason, W., Adamic, L., & Lerman, K. (2017). Understanding Short-term Changes in Online Activity Sessions. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion.
Beasley, A., Mason, W., & Smith, E. R. (2016). Inferring emotions and self-relevant domains in social media: Challenges and future directions.. Translational Issues in Psychological Science.
Beasley, A., & Mason, W.. (2015). Emotional states vs. emotional words in social media. Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference.
Herdağdelen, A., Adamic, L., & Mason, W.. (2016). The social ties of immigrant communities in the United States. Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science.
Mao, A., Mason, W., Suri, S., & Watts, D. J. (2016). An experimental study of team size and performance on a complex task. PloS one.
Mason, W., Suri, S., & Watts, D. J. (2014). Long-run learning in games of cooperation. Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM conference on Economics and computation.
Ren, J., Nickerson, J. V., Mason, W., Sakamoto, Y., & Graber, B.. (2014). Increasing the crowd's capacity to create: how alternative generation affects the diversity, relevance and effectiveness of generated ads. Decision Support Systems.
Teodoro, R., Ozturk, P., Naaman, M., Mason, W., & Lindqvist, J. (2014). The motivations and experiences of the on-demand mobile workforce. Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing.
Genc, Y., Mason, W., & Nickerson, J. V. (2013). Semantic transforms using collaborative knowledge bases: Reading Wikipedia to understand Twitter. Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts at World Wide Web (WWW) Conference.
Genc, Y., Mason, W., Lennon E. A., & Nickerson, J. V. (2013). Building Ontologies from Collaborative Knowledge Bases to Search and Interpret Multilingual Corpora. Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Merritt, S., Jacobs, A. Z., Mason, W., & Clauset, A. (2013). Detecting friendship within dynamic online interaction networks. International Conference on Web and Social Media.
Mason, W. & Clauset, A. (2013). Friends FTW! Friendship and Competition in Halo:Reach. The 16th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. pdf
Kooti, F., Mason, W., Gummadi, K. P. & Cha, M. (2012). Predicting Adoption of Social Conventions in Online Social Networks. Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2012, Maui, Hawai'i.
Kooti, F., Yang, H., Cha, M., Gummadi, K. P. & Mason, W. (2012). The Emergence of Conventions in Online Social Networks. International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2012, Dublin, Ireland. pdf
Mason, W. & Suri, S. (2012). A Guide to Behavioral Experiments on Mechanical Turk. Behavior Research Methods, 44(1), 1-23. pdf project page
Mason, W. & Watts, D. J. (2012). Collaborative problem solving in networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(3), 764-769. pdf
Suri, S., Goldstein, D. G., & Mason, W. (2011). Honesty in an Online Labor Market. Proceedings of the Human Computation (HCOMP) Workshop: AAAI, San Francisco, CA pdf
Wu, S., Hofman, J., Mason, W., & Watts, D. J. (2011). Who Says What to Whom on Twitter. International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW), 2011, Hyderabad, India pdf
Bakshy, E., Hofman, J., Mason, W., & Watts, D. J. (2011). Everyone's an Influencer: Quantifying Influence on Twitter ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) pdf project page
Goel, S., Mason, W., & Watts, D. J. (2010). Real and Perceived Attitude Homophily in Social Networks. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology(4), 611-621. pdf project page
De Choudhury, M., Hofman, J., Mason, W. & Watts, D. J. (2010). Inferring "Relevant" Network Structures from Social Communication. International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW), 2010, Washington, D.C. pdf project page
Mason, W., & Watts, D. J. (2009). Financial Incentives and the "Performance of Crowds". Proceedings of the Human Computation (HCOMP) Workshop: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference, Paris, France. pdf project page
Mason, W., Jones, A. & Goldstone, R. L. (2008). Propagation of innovations in networked groups. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137(3), 422-433. pdf project page
Queller, S., & Mason, W. (2008). A decision bound categorization approach to the study of subtyping of atypical group members. Social Cognition, 26(1), 66-101. pdf
Mason, W., Conrey, F. R., & Smith, E. R. (2007). Situating social influence processes: Dynamic, multidirectional flows of influence within social networks. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 11(3), 279-300. pdf
Queller, S., Schell, T. & Mason, W. (2006). A novel view of between-category contrast and within-category assimilation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91(3), 406-422. pdf

Book Chapters

Gosling, S. D., & Mason, W.. (2015). Internet research in psychology. Annual review of psychology.
Mason, W., Vaughan, J. W., & Wallach, H.. (2014). Computational social science and social computing. .
Mason, W. (2014). Participation. In P. Michelucci (Ed.), Handbook of Human Computation. Springer Press.
Mason, W. (2014). Collective Search as Human Computation. In P. Michelucci (Ed.), Handbook of Human Computation. Springer Press.
Goldstone, R. L., Roberts, M. E., Mason, W., & Gureckis, T. (2008). Collective search in concrete and abstract spaces. In T. Kugler, C. Smith, and T. Connelly (Eds.) Decision modeling and behavior in uncertain and complex environments. Springer Press. pdf