Publishings

Below is a list of selected publications by researchers at Toronto Metropolitan University Social Media Lab. Please visit Dr. Gruzd’s Google Scholar page for a complete list of his publications.

Gruzd, A., Abul-Fottouh, D., Song, M. Y., & Saiphoo, A. (2023). From Facebook to YouTube: The Potential Exposure to COVID-19 Anti-Vaccine Videos on Social Media. Social Media+ Society, 9(1), DOI: 20563051221150403

Wilhelm, E., Ballalai, I., Belanger, M.-E., Benjamin, P., Bertrand-Ferrandis, C., Bezbaruah, S., et al. (2023). Measuring the burden of infodemics: Summary of the methods and results of the Fifth WHO Infodemic Management Conference. JMIR Infodemiology, 3: e44207. DOI:10.2196/44207

Gruzd, A., Mai, P., & Soares, F. B. (2022). How coordinated link sharing behavior and partisans’ narrative framing fan the spread of COVID-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 12(1), 1-12. DOI: 10.1007/s13278-022-00948-y

Gruzd, A., & Hernández-García, Á. (2022). A balancing act: how risk mitigation strategies employed by users explain the privacy paradox on social media. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1-19. DOI:10.1080/0144929X.2022.2152366

Gruzd, A., & Hodson, J. (2021). Making Sweet Music Together: The Affordances of Networked Media for Building Performance Capital by YouTube Musicians. Social Media + Society, 7(2), DOI:10.1177/20563051211025511

Calleja, N., AbdAllah, A., Abad, N., Ahmed, N., Albarracin, D., Altieri, E., et. al. (2021). A public health research agenda for managing infodemics: Methods and results of the first WHO infodemiology conference. JMIR Infodemiology, 1(1), DOI:10.2196/30979

Kumar, P., Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2021). Mapping out Violence Against Women of Influence on Twitter Using the Cyber–Lifestyle Routine Activity Theory. American behavioral scientist, 65(5), 689-711. DOI: 10.1177/0002764221989777

Gruzd, A., Kumar, P., Abul-Fottouh, D., & Haythornthwaite, C., (2020). Coding & classifying knowledge exchange on social media: A comparative analysis of the #Twitterstorians and AskHistorians communities. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 29, 629–656. DOI: 10.1007/s10606-020-09376-y

Jacobson, J., Gruzd, A. (2020). Cybervetting job applicants on social media: the new normal? Ethics Inf Technol, 22, 175–195. DOI: 10.1007/s10676-020-09526-2

Abul-Fottouh, D., Song, Y., Gruzd, A. (2020). Examining algorithmic biases in YouTube’s recommendations of vaccine videos. International Journal of Medical Informatics 140,104175. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2020.104175

Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., & Dubois, E. (2020). Cybervetting and the Public Life of Social Media Data. Social Media + Society. DOI: 10.1177/2056305120915618

Tangcharoensathien, V., Calleja, N., Nguyen, T., Purnat, T., D’Agostino, M., Garcia-Saiso, S., … & Briand, S. (2020). Framework for managing the COVID-19 infodemic: methods and results of an online, crowdsourced WHO technical consultation. Journal of medical Internet research, 22(6), e19659. DOI: 10.2196/19659

Jacobson, J., Gruzd, A. & Hernandez-Garcia, A. (2019). Who is watching the Watchers? Social Media Marketing in the Post Cambridge Analytica Era. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2019.03.001

Recuero, R., & Gruzd, A. (2019). Cascatas de Fake News Políticas: Um estudo de caso no Twitter. Galáxia (São Paulo), (41), 31-47. Link

Chaudhry & Gruzd. (2020). Expressing and Challenging Racist Discourse on Facebook: How Social Media Weaken the “Spiral of Silence” Theory. Policy & Internet, 12(1), 88-108. DOI:10.1002/poi3.197

Tougas ME, Chambers CT, Corkum P, Robillard JM, Gruzd A, Howard V, Kampen A, Boerner KE, Hundert AS. (2018). Social Media Content About Children’s Pain and Sleep: Content and Network Analysis. JMIR Pediatr Parent 1(2):e11193. DOI: 10.2196/11193

Gruzd, A., Lannigan, J., & Quigley, K. (2018). Examining government cross-platform engagement in social media: Instagram vs Twitter and the big lift project. Government Information Quarterly, 35(4), 579-587. DOI:10.1016/j.giq.2018.09.005

Gruzd, A., & Hernández-García, Á. (2018). Privacy Concerns and Self-Disclosure in Private and Public Uses of Social Media. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 21(7), 418–428. DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2017.0709 

Haythornthwaite, C., Kumar, P., Gruzd, A., Gilbert, S., Esteve Del Valle, M., & Paulin, D. (2018). Learning in the Wild: Coding for Learning and Practice on Reddit. Learning, Media and Technology, 43(3), 219-235. DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2018.1498356 

Dubois, E., Gruzd, A., & Jacobson, J. (2018). Journalists’ Use of Social Media to Infer Public Opinion: The Citizens’ Perspective. Social Science Computer Review, 38(1), 57–74. DOI:10.1177/0894439318791527 

Gamble J.M., Traynor, R.L., Gruzd, A., Mai, P., Dormuth, C.R., & Sketris, I.S. (2018). Measuring the Impact of Pharmacoepidemiologic Research Using Altmetrics: A case study of a CNODES drug‐safety article. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. DOI: 10.1002/pds.4401

Kwon, K.H. & Gruzd, A. (2017). Is Offensive Commenting Contagious Online? Examining Public vs. Interpersonal Swearing in Response to Donald Trump’s YouTube Campaign Videos. Internet Research, 24(4), 991-1010. DOI: 10.1108/IntR-02-2017-0072  

Gruzd, A., Paulin, D., & Haythornthwaite, C. (2016). Analyzing Social Media and Learning Through Content and Social Network Analysis: A Faceted Methodological Approach. Journal of Learning Analytics, 3(3), 46-71. DOI:10.18608/jla.2016.33.4

Gruzd, A., Haythornthwaite, C., Paulin, D., Gilbert, S., & Esteve del Valle, M. (2016). Uses and gratifications factors for social media use in teaching: Instructors’ perspectives. New Media and Society, 20(2), 475-494. DOI: 10.1177/1461444816662933  

Gruzd, Anatoliy; Tsyganova, Ksenia (2015). Information Wars and Online Activism During the 2013/2014 Crisis in Ukraine: Examining the Social Structures of Pro- and Anti-Maidan Groups. Policy and Internet. DOI: 10.32920/14668785.v1

White, B., Castleden, H., & Gruzd, A. (2015). Talking to Twitter users: Motivations behind Twitter use on the Alberta oil sands and the Northern Gateway Pipeline. First Monday, 20(1). DOI: 10.5210/fm.v20i1.5404

Gruzd, A. and Roy, J. (2014). Investigating Political Polarization on Twitter: A Canadian Perspective. Policy & Internet, 6(1), 28–45. DOI: 10.1002/1944-2866.POI354

Gruzd, A. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2013). Enabling community through social media. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 15(10):e248. DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2796

Gruzd, A., (2013). Emotions in the Twitterverse and Implications for User Interface Design. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(1), 42-56. Link.

Martin, J.M.G., Gruzd, A., Howard, V. (2013). Navigating an imagined Middle–earth: Finding and analyzing text–based and film–based mental images of Middle–earth through TheOneRing.net online fan community. First Monday, 18(5). DOI: 10.5210%2Ffm.v18i5.4529

Gruzd, A., Staves, K., Wilk, A. (2012). Connected Scholars: Examining the Role of Social Media in Research Practices of Faculty using the UTAUT model. Computers in Human Behavior, 28 (6), 2340-2350, DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2012.07.004

Gruzd, A. and Sedo, D.R. (2012). #1b1t: Investigating Reading Practices at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century. Journal of Studies in Book Culture 3(2). DOI:10.7202/1009347ar

Gruzd, A., Black, F.A., Le,Y., Amos, K. (2012). Investigating Biomedical Research Literature in the Blogosphere: A Case Study of Diabetes and HbA1c. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 100(1), 34-42. DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.100.1.007

Takhteyev, Y., Gruzd, A., and Wellman, B. (2012). Geography of Twitter Networks. Social Networks, Special issue on Space and Networks, 34(1): 73-81. DOI:10.1016/j.socnet.2011.05.006. 

White, B., Castleden, H., & Gruzd, A. (2015). Talking to Twitter users: Motivations behind Twitter use on the Alberta oil sands and the Northern Gateway Pipeline. First Monday, 20(1). DOI: 10.5210/fm.v20i1.5404

Gruzd, A. and Roy, J. (2014). Investigating Political Polarization on Twitter: A Canadian Perspective. Policy & Internet, 6(1), 28–45. DOI: 10.1002/1944-2866.POI354

Gruzd, A. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2013). Enabling community through social media. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 15(10):e248. DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2796

Gruzd, A., (2013). Emotions in the Twitterverse and Implications for User Interface Design. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(1), 42-56. Link.

Martin, J.M.G., Gruzd, A., Howard, V. (2013). Navigating an imagined Middle–earth: Finding and analyzing text–based and film–based mental images of Middle–earth through TheOneRing.net online fan community. First Monday, 18(5). DOI: 10.5210%2Ffm.v18i5.4529

Gruzd, A., Staves, K., Wilk, A. (2012). Connected Scholars: Examining the Role of Social Media in Research Practices of Faculty using the UTAUT model. Computers in Human Behavior, 28 (6), 2340-2350, DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2012.07.004

Gruzd, A. and Sedo, D.R. (2012). #1b1t: Investigating Reading Practices at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century. Journal of Studies in Book Culture 3(2). DOI:10.7202/1009347ar

Gruzd, A., Black, F.A., Le,Y., Amos, K. (2012). Investigating Biomedical Research Literature in the Blogosphere: A Case Study of Diabetes and HbA1c. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 100(1), 34-42. DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.100.1.007

Takhteyev, Y., Gruzd, A., and Wellman, B. (2012). Geography of Twitter Networks. Social Networks, Special issue on Space and Networks, 34(1): 73-81. DOI:10.1016/j.socnet.2011.05.006. 

Gruzd, A., De Domenico, M., Sacco, P. L., & Briand, S. (2021). Studying the COVID-19 infodemic at scale. Big Data & Society, 8(1). DOI: 10.1177/20539517211021115

Jacobson, J., Gruzd, A., Kumar, P. & Mai, P. (2019). Networked Influence. Social Media + Society. DOI: 10.1177/2056305119865473

Hemsley, J., Jacobson, J., Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2018). Social Media for Social Good or Evil. Social Media + Society, 4(3), 2056305118786719. DOI: 10.1177/2056305118786719

Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Wellman, B., & Mai, P. H. (2017). Social Media and Society: Introduction to the Special Issue. American Behavioral Scientist, 61(7), 647–652. DOI: 10.1177/0002764217717567

Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Wellman, B., & Mai, P. (2016). Understanding communities in an age of social media: the good, the bad, and the complicated. Information, Communication & Society, 19(9), 1187–1193. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2016.1187195

Gruzd, A. (2015). Introduction to Articles from the 2014 Conference on Social Media & Society. Big Data and Society. DOI: 10.1177/2053951715621570

Gruzd, A. & Wellman, B. (2014). Networked Influence in Social Media: Introduction to the Special Issue. American Behavioral Scientist, 58(10), 1251-1259. DOI:10.1177/0002764214527087 

Gruzd, A., Mai, P., & Vahedi, Z. (2022). Studying Anti-Social Behaviour on Reddit with Communalytic. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (pp. 503-520). SAGE Publications Ltd. DOI: 10.4135/9781529782943.n36

Gruzd, A., Mai, P., & Kampen, A. (2022). Using Netlytic to Analyze Twitter Conversations about the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods, 467. DOI: 10.4135/9781529782943

Esteve Del Valle, M., Gruzd, A., Kumar, P., and Gilbert, S.  (2020). Learning in the wild: Understanding networked ties in Reddit. In Nina Bonderup Dohn, Petar Jandríc, Thomas Ryberg and Maarten de Laat (Eds), Mobility, Data, and Learner Agency in Networked Learning. Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-36911-8_4

Esteve Del Valle, M., Wanless-Berk, A., Gruzd, A., and Mai, P. (2018). I Click, Therefore I am: Predicting Clicktivist-like Actions on Candidates’ Facebook Posts During the 2016 U.S. Primary Election. In Networks, Hacking, and Media – [email protected]: Now and Then and Tomorrow (Studies in Media and Communications, Volume 17) Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.137 – 154. DOI: 10.1108/S2050-206020180000017008

Gruzd, A. & O’Bright, B. (2017). Big Data and Political Science: The Case of VKontakte and the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine. In Sloan, L., & Quan-Haase, A. (Eds.). DOI: 10.4135/9781473983847

Gruzd, A., Mai P., and Kampen, A. (2017).  A how-to for using Netlytic to collect and analyze social media data: A case study of the use of Twitter during the 2014 Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine. In Sloan, L., & Quan-Haase, A. (Eds.). DOI: 10.4135/9781473983847

Dang, A., Moh’d, A., Gruzd, A., Milios, E., & Minghim, R. (2017). An Offline–Online Visual Framework for Clustering Memes in Social Media. In M. Kaya, Ö. Erdoǧan, & J. Rokne (Eds.), From Social Data Mining and Analysis to Prediction and Community Detection (pp. 1–29). Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51367-6_1

Gruzd, A., & Roy, J. (2016). Social Media and Local Government in Canada: An Examination of Presence and Purpose. In M. Z. Sobaci (Ed.), Social Media and Local Governments (pp. 79–94). Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-17722-9_5

Gruzd, A. (2014). Online Communities. In Reda Alhajj and Jon Rokne (Eds), Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_81

Gruzd, A. (2012). Non-Academic and Academic Social Networking Sites for Online Scholarly Communities. In Neal, D.R. (Ed.) Social Media for Academics: A practical guide (pp 21-37). Chandos Publishing. DOI:10.1016/B978-1-84334-681-4.50002-5.

Dimitrova, D., Gruzd, A. et al. (2012). NAVEL Gazing: Studying a Networked Scholarly Organization. In: Kranakis, E. (eds) Advances in Network Analysis and its Applications. Mathematics in Industry, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-30904-5_13

Gruzd, A. (2011). Exploring Virtual Communities with the Internet Community Text Analyzer (ICTA). In Ben Kei Daniel (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities: Paradigms and Phenomena (pp. 205-223). IGI Global. DOI:10.4018/978-1-60960-040-2.ch011

Gruzd, A. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2011). Networking Online: Cyber Communities. In Scott, J. & Carrington, P. (Eds.), Handbook of Social Network Analysis (pp. 449-487). London: Sage. DOI: 10.4135/9781446294413

Gruzd, A. & Twidale M. (2011). Multitasking Made Easy: Supporting Academic Writing in Digital Libraries with an Ambient Search System. In Kuo Hung Huang (Ed.), Digital Libraries – Methods and Applications. Intech. DOI: 10.5772/15398

Haythornthwaite, C. & Gruzd, A. (2007). A Noun Phrase Analysis Tool for Mining Online Community. In Steinfield, C., Pentland, B., Ackerman, M. & Contractor, N. (Eds.), Communities and Technologies 2007: Proceedings of the Third Communities and Technologies Conference, Michigan State University 2007 (pp. 67-86). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-905-7_4

Recuero, R., Soares, F. B., & Gruzd, A. (2020). Hyperpartisanship, Disinformation and Political Conversations on Twitter: The Brazilian Presidential Election of 2018. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (Vol. 14, pp. 569-578). DOI:10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7324

Haythornthwaite, C. & Gruzd, A. (2020). Learning in the wild: Exploring the practice of learning in open, online forums. In Proceedings of Networked Learning Conference. https://www.networkedlearning.aau.dk/digitalAssets/826/826420_33.-haythornthwaite—gruzd—learning-in-the-wild-exploring-the-practice-of-learning-in-open–online-forums.pdf

Gruzd, A. Abul-Fottouh, D., Mashatan, A. (2020). Who is Influencing the #GDPR Discussion on Twitter: Implications for Public Relations. In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. DOI: 10.24251/HICSS.2020.319

Gruzd, A. & Conroy, N. (2020). Learning Analytics Dashboard for Teaching with Twitter. In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. DOI: 10.24251/HICSS.2020.330 

Kumar, P., & Gruzd, A. (2019). Social Media for Informal Learning: A Case of #Twitterstorians. In Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. DOI: 10.24251/HICSS.2019.304

Jacobson, J., & Gruzd, A. (2018). Employers’ Use of Young People’s Social Media: Extending Stakeholder Theory to Social Media Data. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2018, p. 18217). DOI: 10.5465/AMBPP.2018.18217abstract

Esteve Del Valle, M., Wanless-Berk, A., Gruzd, A., and Mai, P. (2018). Unpredictably Trump? Predicting Clicktivist-like Actions on Trump’s Facebook Posts During the 2016 U.S. Primary Election. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA. DOI: 10.1145/3217804.3217898

Gruzd, A & Conroy, N. (2018). Designing a learning analytics dashboard for twitter-facilitated teaching. In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale ([email protected] ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 46. DOI: 10.1145/3231644.3231704

Kumar, P., Gruzd, A., Haythornthwaite, C., Gilbert, S., Esteve Del Valle, M., Paulin, D. (2018). Learning in the Wild: Coding Reddit for Learning and Practice. In Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. DOI: 10.24251/HICSS.2018.244

Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Dubois, E. (2017). You’re Hired: Examining Acceptance of Social Media Screening of Job Applicants. In Proceedings of the 23rd Americas Conference on Information Systems. August 10-12, 2017, Boston, MA, USA. DOI:10.32920/ryerson.14636181.v1

Song, M.Y. & Gruzd, A. (2017). Examining Sentiments and Popularity of Pro- and Anti-Vaccination Videos on YouTube. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 17. DOI:10.1145/3097286.3097303

Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Dubois, E. (2017). Information Visualizations as a Tool to Study Users’ Social Media Privacy Concerns. In Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) conference, May 31 – June 2, 2017, Toronto, ON, Canada. DOI:10.29173/cais1016

Kwon, K. H., & Gruzd, A. (2017). Is Aggression Contagious Online? A Case of Swearing on Donald Trump’s Campaign Videos on YouTube. In Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. DOI:10.24251/HICSS.2017.262

Collins, R., & Gruzd, A. (2017). Learning within Digital Media: Investigating the Relationships Between Student Citation Networks, Assignment Structures, and Learning Outcomes. In Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. DOI: 10.24251/HICSS.2017.253

Esteve Del Valle, M., Gruzd, A., Haythornthwaite, C., Paulin, D., & Gilbert, S. (2017). Social Media in Educational Practice: Faculty Present and Future Use of Social Media in Teaching. In Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. DOI: 10.24251/HICSS.2017.019

Tsyganova, K., Tsyganov, D. & Gruzd, A. (2016). Comparing Friendship vs Communication Networks among Members of Politically Motivated Online Groups. In Proceedings of the Internet, Policy & Politics Conference. September 22-23, 2016, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Link

Nizam, N., Watters, C., & Gruzd, A. (2016). Improving Website Navigation with the Wisdom of Crowds. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 337-339. DOI:10.1145/2914586.2914607

Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Dubois, E. (2016). Hacking the Storage and Preservation of Social Media Data. In Proceedings of the 2016 iConference. DOI:10.9776/16551

Absar, R., Gruzd, A., Haythornthwaite, C., & Paulin, D. (2016). Linking Online Identities and Content in Connectivist MOOCs across Multiple Social Media Platforms. In Proceedings of the WWW 2016 Conference. April 11-15, 2016, Montréal, Québec, Canada. DOI:10.1145/2872518.2890458

Dang, A., Moh’d, A., Gruzd, A., Milios, E., and Minghim, R. (2015). A Visual Framework for Clustering Memes in Social Media. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM). August 25-28, 2015, Paris, France. DOI: 10.1145/2808797.2808830

Absar, R., Gruzd, A., Haythornthwaite, C., & Paulin, D. (2015). Media Multiplexity in Connectivist MOOCs. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (pp. 424–425). New York, NY, USA: ACM. DOI: 10.1145/2723576.2723654

Gruzd, A., Haythornthwaite, C., Paulin, D., Absar, R. and Huggett, M. (2014). Learning analytics for the social media age. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Learning Analytics And Knowledge (LAK ’14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 254-256. DOI:10.1145/2567574.2576773 

Nizam, N., Watters, C., Gruzd, A. (2014). Link Sharing on Twitter during Popular Events: Implications for Social Navigation on Websites. In Proceedings of the 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS ’14). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 1745-1754. DOI:10.1109/HICSS.2014.222

Gruzd, A., & Goertzen, M. (2013). Wired Academia: Why Social Science Scholars Are Using Social Media. In The 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 3332-3341. DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.614

Steffen-Fluhr, N., Collins, R., Passerini, K., Wu, B., Gruzd, A., Zhu, M., Hiltz, R. (2012). Leveraging Social Network Data to Support Faculty Mentoring: Best Practices. In Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network (WEPAN) National Conference, June 25-27, 2012, Columbus, OH., USA. 

Haythornthwaite, C. and Gruzd, A. (2012). Exploring Patterns and Configurations in Networked Learning Texts. Proceedings of the 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 4-7, Maui, HI, USA. DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.268 

Gruzd, A., Staves, K., and Wilk, A. (2011). Tenure and Promotion in the Age of Online Social Media. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Conference, October 9-13, 2011, New Orleans, LA, USA. DOI: 10.1002/meet.2011.14504801154

Gruzd, A., Doiron, S., and Mai, P. (2011). Is Happiness Contagious Online? A Case of Twitter and the 2010 Winter Olympics. Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 4-7, Kauai, HI, USA. DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2011.259.

Steffen-Fluhr, N., Gruzd, A., Collins, R. and Osatuyi,B. (2010). N is for Network: New Tools for Mapping Organizational Change. National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates (NAMEPA)/ Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network (WEPAN) 4th Joint Conference, April 12-14, 2010, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Link

Gruzd, A., Wong, J. (2010). Blogging with CONTEXT: A context-aware information retrieval system for bloggers. Proceedings of the 3rd Information Interaction in Context Symposium, August 18-22, 2010, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. DOI: 10.1145/1840784.1840827

Gruzd, A. (2009). Automated Discovery of Emerging Online Communities Among Blog Readers: A Case Study of a Canadian Real Estate Blog. Proceedings of the Internet Research 10.0 Conference, October 7-11, 2009, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Link

Gruzd, A. (2009). Automated Discovery of Social Networks in Text-Based Online Communities. Position Paper. Proceedings of the GROUP’09 Conference, Doctoral Consortium, May 10-13, 2009, Sanibel Island, FL, USA. DOI: 10.1145/1531674.1531733 (Paper Acceptance Rate: 36%)

Gruzd, A. (2009). Name Networks: A Content-Based Method for Automated Discovery of Social Networks to Study Collaborative Learning. Proceedings of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference, January 19-23, 2009, Denver, CO, USA. Link

Gruzd, A. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2008). The Analysis of Online Communities using Interactive Content-based Social Networks. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Conference, October 24-29, 2008, Columbus, OH, USA, pp. 523-527. DOI: 10.1002/meet.2008.1450450318

Haythornthwaite, C. & Gruzd, A. (2008). Analyzing Networked Learning Texts. Proceedings of Networked Learning Conference, Halkidiki, Greece, May 5-6, 2008, pp. 136-143. Link

Downie, J., Lee, J., Gruzd, A. & M. Cameron Jones (2007) Toward an understanding of similarity judgments for music digital library evaluation. Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries (JCDL ’07). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 307–308. DOI: 10.1145/1255175.1255235

Gruzd, A. & Twidale, M.B. (2006). Write While You Search: Ambient Searching of a Digital Library in the Context of Writing. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Digital Libraries in the Context of Users’ Broader Activities (DL-CUBA) at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL’06), Chapel Hill, NC, USA, pp. 13-16. Link

Attarwala, S. & Gruzd, A. (2021). Visualizing Large-Scale Social and Communication Networks with the help of Apache Spark and Compute Canada’s Digital Infrastructure. Ryerson IT Conference, May 24, 2021 (virtual). Link N/A.

Krause, N. & Gruzd, A. (2021). Archiving the Pandemic: Recording and Analyzing Two Billion Pandemic-Related Tweets. Ryerson IT Conference, May 24, 2021 (virtual). Link N/A.

Gruzd, A. & Mai, P. (2021). No Viral Video Should Go to Waste: Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior Around a Doctor Featured in the Viral COVID-19 Video – “America’s Frontline Doctors”. MISDOOM Symposium on Misinformation in Online Media, September 21-22, 2021. Link

Krause, N. & Gruzd, A. (2021). Archiving the Pandemic: Recording and Analyzing Two Billion Pandemic-Related Tweets. Ryerson IT Conference, May 24, 2021 (virtual). Link N/A.

Attarwala, S. & Gruzd, A. (2021). Visualizing Large-Scale Social and Communication Networks with the help of Apache Spark and Compute Canada’s Digital Infrastructure. Ryerson IT Conference, May 24, 2021 (virtual). Link N/A.

MacDonald, B., Gruzd, A., & Collins, V. (2020). Scientific Communication Networks: Tracking Victorian and Twenty-First Century Communication with Social Network Analysis. International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety). July 22-24, 2020 (virtual). DOI: 10.1145/3400806

Gruzd, A., Mai, P., Recuero, R., & Soares, F. (2020). Studying Toxicity on Twitter during the 2019 Federal Election in Canada. International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety). July 22-24, 2020 (virtual). DOI: 10.1145/3400806

Abul-Fottouh, D., Song, M., & Gruzd, A. (2020). Examining algorithmic biases in YouTube’s recommendations of vaccine videos. Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), July 13-17, 2020 (virtual). DOI:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2020.104175

Gruzd, A., Kumar, P., Abul-Fottouh, D. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2020). Coding and classifying knowledge exchange on social media: #Twitterstorians and AskHistorians. The 18th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW), June 13-17, 2020 (virtual). DOI: 10.1007/s10606-020-09376-y

Gruzd, A., Mai, P., Recuero, R., & Soares, F. (2020) Disinformation and Hyperpartisanship on Twitter during the 2018 Presidential Election in Brazil. The Digital Media and the 2019 Federal Election Symposium, February 21, 2020, Ottawa, Canada. Link

Recuero, R., Soares, F., & Gruzd, A. (2019). Disinformation and Hyperpartisanship on Twitter during the 2018 Presidential Election in Brazil. The 3rd European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science, September 2-4, 2019, Zurich, Switzerland. Link

Chaudhry, I., & Gruzd, A. (2018) Analyzing Racist Discourse on Facebook. The 2nd European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science, December 5th-7th, 2018, Cologne, Germany. Link

Song, M., & Gruzd, A. (2018) Examining the Influence of Pro-vaccine and Anti-vaccine Videos on YouTube. The 2nd European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science, December 5th-7th, 2018, Cologne, Germany. Link

Kumar, P., Gruzd, A., Mai, P. (2018). Mapping out Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) on Twitter: Case of India. The 2018 Association of Internet Researchers Conference, October 11, 2018, Montreal, QC. Link

Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Burkell, J., McNeish, J., Quan-Haase, A. (2018) Social Media Users’ Privacy Expectations and the Ethics of Using Their Data by Third Parties. Roundtable. The 2018 Association of Internet Researchers Conference, October 11, 2018, Montreal, QC.  Link

Boichak, O. & Gruzd, A. (2018). Mobilizing Diasporas: Mapping Transnational Relief Efforts in the Social Media Age. The Internet, Policy & Politics Conference, September 20-21, 2018, Oxford, UK. Link

Esteve, M., Kumar, P., Gruzd, A., Haythornthwaite, C., Gilbert, S., & Paulin, D. (2017). Developing Learning Analytics Methods on Reddit. Learning & Student Analytics Conference (LSAC), October 26-27, 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Link

Gruzd, A., Kumar, P., Haythornthwaite, C., Esteve, M., Gilbert, S., & Paulin, D. (2017) Using Content Analysis to Study Learning in the Wild on Reddit. World Conference on Online Learning/ICDE2017, October 18-21, 2017, Toronto, Canada. Link.

Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Kumar, P., Mai, P. (2017). The Ethics of Social Media Data Use for Research. Data Power Conference, June 22-23, 2017, Ottawa, Canada. Link

Gruzd, A. & Lannigan, J. (2017). Studying People’s Sentiments on Social Media About #BigLift – a Major Bridge Re-decking Project in Halifax, Canada. Panel on Expanding our Understanding of Social Media Use in Public Management, Public Management Research Conference at American University’s School of Public Affairs, June 8-10, 2017, Washington DC, USA. Link

Gruzd, A. (2016). Who Are We Modelling: Bots or Humans? In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web (pp. 551–551). DOI:10.1145/2872518.2896920

Gruzd, A. & Tsyganova, K. (2014). Politically Polarized Online Groups and their Social Structures formed around the 2013-2014 crisis in Ukraine. Internet, Politics, Policy 2014: Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy. September 25–26, 2014, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. DOI: 10.1002/poi3.91

Robbins, T. and Gruzd, A. (2012). Distributed ‘Influence’ and the 2011 Canada Games’ Social Media Campaign, Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on Social Media, Halifax, NS, September 28-29, 2012. Link.

Gruzd, A. (2012). Investigating Political Polarization on Twitter: A Canadian Perspective. Internet, Politics, Policy 2012: Big Data, Big Challenges? September 20–21, 2012, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Link

Collins, R., Steffen-Fluhr, N., Gruzd, A., Wu, B., Passerini K., and Zhu, M. (2012). Talking Through the Noise: Methodological Issues in Collecting Faculty Network Data. Sunbelt Social Networks Conference, March 12-18, 2012, Redondo Beach, CA, USA. Link N/A

Gruzd, A. (2012). Examining Polarization in Political Social Media: A Case of Twitter and the 2011 Canadian Federal Election. Proceedings of the 40th Canadian Association for Information Science conference, May 30 – June 2, 2012, Waterloo, O.N., Canada. DOI: 10.29173/cais643

Gruzd, A., Wilk, A. and Staves, K. (2011). Scholarly Practices in the Age of Online Social Media. Proceedings of the 39th Canadian Association for Information Science Conference, June 2 – 4, 2011, Fredericton, N.B. Canada. DOI: 10.29173/cais564

Gruzd, A., Wellman, B. and Tahkteyev, Y. (2011). Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community, Conference paper presented at the International Communication Association Conference, May 26-30, 2011, Boston. DOI: 10.1177/0002764211409378

Dimitrova, D., Mok, D., Gruzd, A., Mo, G.Y., Hayat, Z. and Wellman, B. (2011). Networked Science: Discipline and Distance in Research Collaboration (NAVEL), Conference paper presented at the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, February 8-13, 2011, St Pete Beach, FL. Link

Hayat, Z., Dimitrova, D., Gruzd, A., Mo, G.Y., and Wellman, B. (2011). Collaboration and Productivity in Network Organizations, Conference paper presented at the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, February 8-13, 2011, St Pete Beach, FL. Link

Mo, G.Y., Dimitrova, D., Gruzd, A., Hayat, Z., and Wellman, B. (2011). Centrality and Hierarchy in a Networked Organization, Conference paper presented at the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, February 8-13, 2011, St Pete Beach, FL. Link

Mo, G.Y., Dimitrova, D., Gruzd, A., Hayat, Z., and Wellman, B. (2011). Sequencing in Information Dissemination in Scholarly Networks, Conference paper presented at the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, February 8-13, 2011, St Pete Beach, FL. Link

Gruzd, A. & Staves, K. (2011). Trends in scholarly use of online social media. Position paper presented at the Workshop on Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaboration, the 44th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Link

Osatuyi, B., Steffen-Fluhr, N., Gruzd, A., and Collins, R. (2010). An Empirical Investigation of Gender Dynamics and Organizational Change: The Co-Authorship Network Analysis Approach. Management Conference, July 26-29, 2010, Montréal, QC, Canada. Link

Gruzd, A., Chung, C.J., Park, H.W. (2010). Studying online conversations in the Korean blogosphere: A network approach. Conference paper presented at the International Network of Social Network Analysis (INSNA) Conference, Session on Words and Networks, June 29 – July 04, 2010, Trento, Italy. Link

Wellman, B., Dimitrova, D., Gruzd, A., Mok, D., Hyatt, Z., Guangying, M. (2010). The role of ties in initiating collaborative research, Conference paper presented at the International Network of Social Network Analysis (INSNA) Conference, June 29 – July 04, 2010, Trento, Italy. Link

Takhteyev, Y., Gruzd, A., and Wellman, B. (2010). Geography of Twitter Networks. Conference paper presented at the International Network of Social Network Analysis (INSNA) Conference, Session on Twitter Networks, June 29 – July 04, 2010, Trento, Italy. Link

Collins, R., Osatuyi, B., Steffen-Fluhr, N., and Gruzd, A. (2010). Women in Academia: Examining Women’s Positions in Social Networks Based on Faculty Co-authorship Data. Conference paper presented at the 13th Biannual Conference of the Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science, Trades and Technology (CCWESTT), May 13-15, 2010, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Link N/A

Wellman, B., Gruzd, A. and Takhteyev, Y. (2009). Networking on Twitter: A Case Study of a Networked Social Operating System. Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN), September 25-26, 2009, New York City, NY, USA. Link N/A.

Gruzd, A., Takhteyev, Y. and Wellman, B. (2009). A Tweetise on Twitter: Networked Individualism Online. Thematic Session on Imagined Communities in the 21st Century, American Sociological Association, August 8-11, 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA. Link N/A.

Gruzd, A. (2007). Web APIs: A Step towards Greater Mobility of User-Created Data across Social Networking Websites and Their Implications for Research in Information Behavior. Position Paper, SIG USE 2007 Research Symposium on Mobility and Social Networks in Information Behavior, October 20, 2007, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Link

Gruzd, A. & Haythornthwaite, C. (2008). Automated Discovery and Analysis of Social Networks from Threaded Discussions. Conference paper presented at the International Network of Social Network Analysis (INSNA) Conference, St. Pete Beach, Florida, January 22-27, 2008. Link

Anatoliy A. Gruzd, J. Stephen Downie, M. Cameron Jones, and Jin Ha Lee. (2007). Evalutron 6000: collecting music relevance judgments. Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries (JCDL ’07). New York, NY, USA, 507. DOI:10.1145/1255175.1255307

Mai, P., Saiphoo, A., Soares, F., & Gruzd, A. (2022). The Influence of Influencers in Canada: A Census-balanced Survey About Social Media Influencers in Canada. Report. Toronto Metropolitan University Social Media Lab. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare. 21586947

Gruzd, A., Mai, P., Soares, F., & Saiphoo, A. (2022). The Reach of Russian Propaganda & Disinformation in Canada. Report. Toronto Metropolitan University Social Media Lab. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20277855

Mai, P., & Gruzd, A. (2022). The State of Social Media in Canada 2022 Report. Toronto Metropolitan University Social Media Lab. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.21002848

Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2020). Going viral: How a single tweet spawned a COVID-19 conspiracy theory on Twitter. Big Data & Society, 7(2). DOI: 10.1177/2053951720938405

Gruzd, A. (2020, July 26). Canada’s out-of-date online privacy rules aren’t protecting you. The Conversation. Link

Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2020). The State of Social Media in Canada 2020. Report. Toronto Metropolitan University Social Media Lab. Link

Gruzd, A. & Mai, P. (2020). Inoculating against an Infodemic: A Canada-wide COVID-19 News, Social Media, and Misinformation Survey. Report. Toronto Metropolitan University Social Media Lab. DOI: 10.5683/SP2/JLULYA

Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2020, July 8). Companies are increasingly turning to social media to screen potential employees. The Conversation. Link

Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2020, April 22). Conspiracy theorists are falsely claiming that the coronavirus pandemic is an elaborate hoax. The Conversation. Link

Mai, P. & Gruzd, A. (2020, April 14). We Can Inoculate Ourselves against COVID-19 Misinformation. Policy Options. Link

Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Mai, P., & Dubois, E. (2018). The State of Social Media in Canada 2017. Report. Toronto Metropolitan University Social Media Lab. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3158771

Gruzd, A., Jacobson, J., Mai, P., & Dubois, E. (2018). Social Media Privacy in Canada. Report. Toronto Metropolitan University Social Media Lab. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3195503

Dubois, E., Gruzd, A., Mai, P., & Jacobson, J. (2018). Social Media and Political Engagement in Canada. Report. Toronto Metropolitan University Social Media Lab. DOI: 10.5683/SP2/9MCJJH

Takhteyev, Y. , Wellman, B., & Gruzd, A. (2012). How Twitter Makes the Internet More Local. Foreign Affairs. Link

Gruzd, A. (2011). Universities and Social Networking: What’s there for us? (Vol. 19 (#1), pp. 6-7). FOCUS Newsletter on University Teaching and Learning. Dal News. Link N/A

Gruzd, A., & Mai, P. (2011). It’s a ‘Twittermobile!  SAAB Magazine, Vol. 10(#2), pp. 52-53). Link N/A

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