The modern science of networks has made significant advancement in the modeling of
complex real-world systems. One of the most important features in these networks is the …

Twitter has become a pervasive tool in election campaigns. Candidates, parties, journalists,
and a steadily increasing share of the public are using Twitter to comment on, interact …

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 …

Social media have been extensively praised for increasing democratic discussion on social
issues related to policy and politics. However, what happens when this powerful …

Until recently, social media was seen to promote democratic discourse on social and
political issues. However, this powerful communication platform has come under scrutiny for …

Metadata and data have become a regular currency for citizens to pay for their
communication services and security—a trade-off that has nestled into the comfort zone of …

In the last few years thousands of scientific papers have investigated sentiment analysis,
several startups that measure opinions on real data have emerged and a number of …

Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms
define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of …

Twitter has emerged as a major social media platform and generated great interest from
sentiment analysis researchers. Despite this attention, state-of-the-art Twitter sentiment …

Over the past decade, social media platforms have penetrated deeply into the mechanics of
everyday life, affecting people's informal interactions, as well as institutional structures and …