Online Social Media (OSM) have revolutionized the way people interact and share
information. Many recent events and developments have shown that OSM are very powerful …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of NodeXL in the context of
news diffusion. Journalists often include a social media dimension in their stories but lack …

Explosion in usage of social media has made its analysis a relevant topic of interest, and
particularly so in the political science area. Within Data Science, no other techniques are …

In recent years the use of Social Media has increased to hundreds of millions of users all
around the world who are participating in the" Social computing revolution" by using social …

The study of social phenomena is becoming increasingly reliant on big data from online
social networks. Broad access to social media data, however, requires software …

This paper describes Mecodify, an open-source tool aimed at codifying and presenting
online data primarily for the use of social media researchers. Although the first stage of the …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to assess high-dimensional visualisation, combined
with pattern matching, as an approach to observing dynamic changes in the ways people …

In recent years, social media are said to have an impact on the public discourse and
communication in the society. In particular, social media are increasingly used in political …

Scholarly research into the uses of social media has become a major area of growth in
recent years, as the adoption of social media for public communication itself has continued …

Through social media platforms, massive amounts of data are being produced. As a
microblogging social media platform, Twitter enables its users to post short updates as …