Social media and social networks contribute to shape the debate on societal and policy
issues, but the dynamics of this process is not well understood. As a case study, we monitor …

Twitter is a platform which may contain opinions, thoughts, facts and other information.
Within it, many and various communities are originated by users with common interests, or …

As the popularity of social media has been growing steadily since the beginning of their era,
the use of data from these platforms to analyze social phenomena is becoming more and …

Microblogging has taken a considerable upturn in recent years, with the growth of
microblogging websites like Twitter people have started to share more of their opinions …

The web is composed of a multitude of sources. The differences between these sources are
as vast as night and day. There are some key differences among them, and an accurate …

Social networks provide a rich data source for researchers that can be accessed in a
comparatively effortless way. As data and text mining methods such as Sentiment Analysis …

We propose an analytical framework aimed at investigating different views of the
discussions regarding polarized topics which occur in Online Social Networks (OSNs). The …

Web 2.0 helps to expand the range and depth of conversation on many issues and facilitates
the formation of online communities. Online communities draw various individuals together …

Analyzing information from social media to uncover underlying real-world phenomena is
becoming widespread. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the role of Twitter in identifying …

The growing availability of social media platforms, in particular microblogs such as Twitter,
opened new way to people for expressing their opinions. Sentiment Analysis aims at …