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From Digital Tracks to Digital Twins: On the Path to Cross-Platform Profile Linking

Authors : Sergej Schultenkämper, Frederik S. Bäumer, Benjamin Bellgrau, Yeong Su Lee, Michaela Geierhos

Published in: Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. EDOC 2023 Workshops

Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland

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In recent years, many studies have focused on correlating the profiles of real users across different social media. On the one hand, this provides a better overview of the user’s social behavior; on the other hand, it can be used to warn of possible abuse through identity theft or cyberbullying. We try to make the threat on the Web predictable for the individual user by creating digital twins. To do this, it is important to use different data sources and to merge overlapping data across platforms. In this paper, we show that YouTube is a suitable entry point into the online social network for making connections between platforms, tracking user activity across platforms, and finally merging the collected profile information into an overall picture, the digital twin.

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Title: From Digital Tracks to Digital Twins: On the Path to Cross-Platform Profile Linking
Authors: Sergej Schultenkämper
Frederik S. Bäumer
Benjamin Bellgrau
Yeong Su Lee
Michaela Geierhos
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Book: Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. EDOC 2023 Workshops
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-54711-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-54712-6

Copyright Year: 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54712-6_10

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