This article provides a sociology of Twitter (now known as X) and charts the development of
the study of the platform and its data in sociological venues through an analysis of 1,644 …

Opinion polarization in online social networks causes a lot of concerns on its social,
economic, and political impacts, and is becoming an important topic for academic research …

The COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted classroom instruction globally. Therefore, universities
have implemented online learning tools to help students learn. Changes in society have …

Social media influencers (SMIs) have prevailed in online communication networks and can
play key roles in connective action. However, how influencers connectively drive activism …

Social media campaigning is increasingly linked with anti-democratic outcomes, with
concerns to date centring on paid adverts, rather than organic content produced by a new …

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are decentralized digital tokens to represent the unique
ownership of items. Recently, NFTs have been gaining popularity and at the same time …

Influencing and framing debates on Twitter provides power to shape public opinion. Bots
have become essential tools of 'computational propaganda'on social media such as Twitter …

This article aims to discover key users in public health emergencies and explore their public
opinion evolution patterns, thus providing theoretical support for the establishment of a clear …

The pictures of the US Capitol attack, on January 6, 2021, represent a before and after in a
country marked by the culture of political polarization. Following a presidential campaign …

The identification of opinion leaders is a matter of great significance for companies and
authorities, as these individuals are able to shape the opinions and attitudes of entire …