Cascades are a popular construct to observe and study information propagation (or
diffusion) in social media such as Twitter. and are defined using notions of influence, activity …

Twitter has been heavily used for users to report and share information about real-world
events. However, understanding the multiple aspects of an event as it happens is a very …

Over the last decade, technology has thrived to provide better, quicker, and more effective
platforms to help individuals connect and disseminate information to other individuals. The …

Important aspects of social networking analysis are covered in this work by combining
experimental and theoretical research. A specific focus is devoted to emerging trends and …

Trends and communities in social media networks shape news cycles, politics, public
governing, and economy these days. There is a wealth of information in the way users …

Social media channels have become more and more important for many organizations in
order to reach targeted groups of individuals as well as understand the needs and behaviors …

How to enable efficient analytics over such data has been an increasingly important
research problem. Given the sheer size of such social networks, many existing studies resort …

This paper explores two aspects of social network modeling. First, we generalize a
successful static model of relationships into a dynamic model that accounts for friendships …

Social networks, forums, and social media have emerged as global platforms for forming
and shaping opinions on a broad spectrum of topics like politics, sports, and entertainment …

There are a number of popular automated and manual textual approaches to analyzing
social media data as well as various visualization packages (Ahmed, 2021). This chapter …