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The massive proliferation of social media data represents a transformative opportunity for conflict studies and for tracking the proliferation and use of weaponry, as conflicts are increasingly documented in these online spaces. At the same…

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The rising popularity of social media has radically changed the way news content is propagated, including interactive attempts with new dimensions. To date, traditional news media such as newspapers, television and radio have already…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Praboda Rajapaksha , Reza Farahbakhsh , Noel Crespi , Bruno Defude

Social Media have been extensively used for commercial and political communication, besides their initial scope of providing an easy-to-use outlet to produce and consume user-generated content. Besides being a popular medium, Social Media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Kostas Karpouzis , Stavros Kaperonis , Yannis Skarpelos

Information is crucial to the function of a democratic society where well-informed citizens can make rational political decisions. While in the past political entities were primarily utilizing newspaper and later television to inform the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Aaron Brookhouse , Tyler Derr , Hamid Karimi , H. Russell Bernard , Jiliang Tang

Social media platforms are revolutionizing the way users communicate by increasing the exposure to highly stigmatized issues in the society. Sexual abuse is one such issue that recently took over social media via attaching the hashtag…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Lydia Manikonda , Ghazaleh Beigi , Huan Liu , Subbarao Kambhampati

Social media platforms have become key tools for coordinated influence operations, enabling state actors to manipulate public opinion through strategic, collective actions. While previous research has suggested collaboration between states,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Valeria Pantè , David Axelrod , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Menczer , Emilio Ferrara , Luca Luceri

Opioid and substance misuse is rampant in the United States today, with the phenomenon known as the opioid crisis. The relationship between substance use and mental health has been extensively studied, with one possible relationship being…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Usha Lokala , Francois Lamy , Triyasha Ghosh Dastidar , Kaushik Roy , Raminta Daniulaityte , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Amit Sheth

The research assessed the role of social media in the unfolding of the EndSARS demonstrations in Nigeria. The study was necessary given the persistent call by governments for the strict regulation of social medium platforms. This is given…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Christopher Augustine

Online social networks such as Twitter are important platforms for spreading public opinion on a variety of subjects. The classification of users through the analysis of their posts on Twitter according to their opinion sharing can help…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Camila P. S. Tautenhain , Rodrigo Francisquini , Mariá C. V. Nascimento

This paper details the creation and use of a massive (over 32,000 messages) artificially constructed 'Twitter' microblog stream for a regional emergency preparedness functional exercise. By combining microblog conversion, manual production,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Andrew Hampton , Shreyansh Bhatt , Alan Smith , Jeremy Brunn , Hemant Purohit , Valerie L. Shalin , John M. Flach , Amit P. Sheth

With Twitter's growth and popularity, a huge number of views are shared by users on various topics, making this platform a valuable information source on various political, social, and economic issues. This paper investigates English tweets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Hamed Vahdat-Nejad , Mohammad Ghasem Akbari , Fatemeh Salmani , Faezeh Azizi , Hamid-Reza Nili-Sani

Social media is transforming various aspects of offline life, from everyday decisions such as dining choices to the progression of conflicts. In this study, we propose a coupled modelling framework with an online social network layer to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-21 Moyi Tian , P. Jeffrey Brantingham , Nancy Rodríguez

During the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, social networks become the preeminent medium for communication, social discussion, and entertainment. Social network users are regularly expressing their opinions about the impacts of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Eldor Abdukhamidov , Firuz Juraev , Mohammed Abuhamad , Tamer AbuHmed

It has been suggested that online search and retrieval contributes to the intellectual isolation of users within their preexisting ideologies, where people's prior views are strengthened and alternative viewpoints are infrequently…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-05-08 Danai Koutra , Paul Bennett , Eric Horvitz

Researchers have attempted to model information diffusion and topic trends and lifecycle on online social networks. They have investigated the role of content, social connections and communities, familiarity and behavioral similarity in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Kuntal Dey , Saroj Kaushik , L. Venkata Subramaniam

The advancement in technology has brought a new era in terrorism where Online Social Networks have become a major platform of communication with wide range of usage from message channeling to propaganda and recruitment of new followers in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-10-03 Fredrick Romanus Ishengoma

Social media comprises interactive applications and platforms for creating, sharing and exchange of user-generated contents. The past ten years have brought huge growth in social media, especially online social networking services, and it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Sheng Yu , Subhash Kak

The 21st century has redefined the way we communicate, our concept of individual and group privacy, and the dynamics of acceptable behavioral norms. The messaging dynamics on Twitter, an internet social network, has opened new ways/modes of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Krystal Blanco , Aida Briceno , Andrea Steele , Javier Tapia , John McKay , Sherry Towers , Kamuela E. Yong

Doctors and nurses in these weeks are busy in the trenches, fighting against a new invisible enemy: Covid-19. Cities are locked down and civilians are besieged in their own homes, to prevent the spreading of the virus. War-related…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Philipp Wicke , Marianna M. Bolognesi

Sentiment analysis can largely influence the people to get the update of the current situation. Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a contagious illness caused by the coronavirus 2 that causes severe respiratory symptoms. The lives of millions have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Nosin Ibna Mahbub , Md Rakibul Islam , Md Al Amin , Md Khairul Islam , Bikash Chandra Singh , Md Imran Hossain Showrov , Anirudda Sarkar