Over the recent years, the growth of online social media has greatly facilitated the way
people communicate with each other. Users of online social media share information …

Internet and social media have become a widespread, large scale and easy to use platform
for real-time information dissemination. It has become an open stage for discussion …

News media often leverage documents to find ideas for stories, while being critical of the
frames and narratives present. Developing angles from a document such as a press release …

In recent years, we have witnessed a rise in fake news, ie, provably false pieces of
information created with the intention of deception. The dissemination of this type of news …

The growing use of social networks has led to the emergence of ethical and privacy
concerns regarding the management of user data and how social networks train algorithms …

Every day automated algorithms make decisions that can amplify the power of businesses
and governments. Yet as algorithms come to regulate more aspects of our lives, the contours …

Moving beyond the dominant bag-of-words approach to sentiment analysis we introduce an
alternative procedure based on distributed word embeddings. The strength of word …

In the current era of automation, machines are constantly being channelized to provide
accurate interpretations of what people express on social media. The human race nowadays …

Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide introduces the linguistic
frameworks currently used to analyse language found in social media contexts. This highly …

User-contributed messages on social media sites such as Twitter have emerged aspowerful,
real-time means of information sharing on the Web. These short messages tend to reflect a …