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 …

The widespread availability of analytical tools for Big Data offers enormous opportunities
and challenges for communication researchers. In contrast to user-generated texts, digital …

Twitter is the third most popular worldwide Online Social Network (OSN) after Facebook and
Instagram. Compared to other OSNs, it has a simple data model and a straightforward data …

Online publishing, social networks, and web search have dramatically lowered the costs of
producing, distributing, and discovering news articles. Some scholars argue that such …

Social media platforms such as Twitter provide convenient ways to share and consume
important information during disasters and emergencies. Information from bystanders and …

Two experiments examined the impact of Twitter followers, electronic word-of-mouth (eWoM)
valence, and celebrity type (prosocial versus antisocial) on consumer behavior in Twitter …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine how various characteristics of brand posts
influence online engagement on Facebook brand pages. Design/methodology/approach …

Twitter is among the fastest‐growing microblogging and online social networking services.
Messages posted on Twitter (tweets) have been reporting everything from daily life stories to …

Twitter as a new form of social media can potentially contain much useful information, but
content analysis on Twitter has not been well studied. In particular, it is not clear whether as …

Search systems in online social media sites are frequently used to find information about
ongoing events and people. For topics with multiple competing perspectives, such as …