Social data in digital form—including user-generated content, expressed or implicit relations
between people, and behavioral traces—are at the core of popular applications and …

In recent years, news media have been hugely disrupted by news promotion, commentary
and sharing in online, social media (eg, Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit). This disruption has …

Prior research has examined how companies exploit Twitter in communicating with
investors, and whether Twitter activity predicts the stock market as a whole. We test whether …

Detecting events in real-time from the Twitter data stream has gained substantial attention in
recent years from researchers around the world. Different event detection approaches have …

The proliferation of social networking services has resulted in a rapid growth of their user
base, spanning across the world. The collective information generated from these online …

Public health thrives on high-quality evidence, yet acquiring meaningful data on a
population remains a central challenge of public health research and practice. Social …

Purpose There are currently no studies concerning the use of Google Hangout in North
Cyprus. Thus, this study examines the perceptions of preservice teacher and language …

Twitter is now a key platform for public communication between a diverse range of
participants, but the overall shape of the communication network it provides remains largely …

News documents published online represent an important source of information that can be
used for event detection and tracking as well as for analyzing the temporal publishing …

Our chapter illustrates how citizens can enact varying styles and degrees of political
engagement through social media. It also investigates if citizens engage with political …