Broadcasting to the masses or building communities: Polish political parties online communication during the 2011 election [PDF]
, 2012 The professionalisation of political communication is an evolutionary process (Lilleker & Negrine, 2002), a process that adapts to trends in communication in order to better engage and persuade the public.
Koc-Michalska, K. +2 more
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Bots increase exposure to negative and inflammatory content in online social systems
, 2019 Societies are complex systems which tend to polarize into sub-groups of individuals with dramatically opposite perspectives. This phenomenon is reflected -- and often amplified -- in online social networks where, however, humans are no more the only ...
De Domenico, Manlio +2 more
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Metropolises in the Twittersphere: An Informetric Investigation of Informational Flows and Networks
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2015 Information flows on social media platforms are able to show trends and user interests as well as connections between users. In this paper, we present a method how to analyze city related networks on the social media platform Twitter based on the user ...
Thorsten Förster, Agnes Mainka
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Learning user-specific latent influence and susceptibility from information cascades
, 2015 Predicting cascade dynamics has important implications for understanding information propagation and launching viral marketing. Previous works mainly adopt a pair-wise manner, modeling the propagation probability between pairs of users using n^2 ...
Cheng, Xue-Qi +3 more
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Designing for Schadenfreude (or, how to express well-being and see if you're boring people)
, 2010 This position paper presents two studies of content not normally expressed in status updates—well-being and status feedback—and considers how they may be processed, valued and used for potential quality-of-life benefits in terms of personal and social ...
André, Paul +5 more
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Museum Learning via Social Media: (How) Can Interactions on Twitter Enhance the Museum Learning Experience? [PDF]
, 2011 Museums are rich sources of artifacts, people and potential dialogic interactions. Recent developments in web technologies pose big challenges to museums to integrate such technologies in their learning provision.
Charitonos, Koula
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Who’s Following Twitter? Coverage of the Microblogging Phenomenon by U.S. Cable News Networks
International Journal of Communication, 2015 Through data captured in a digital content analysis (DCA) lab, we examine coverage of Twitter across three 24-hour U.S. cable news channels: CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC.
Deborah S. Chung +2 more
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Journalism and MediaThis study analyzed 2421 microblogs posted between the year 2012 to March 2022 reflecting the microbloggers’ attitudes toward different cultures. Results indicated that (1) the number of microblog posts expressing the users’ intercultural attitudes ...
Xiaotian Zhang
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Women-Focused Nonprofit Organizations and Their Use of Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Characterizing a Gendered Pandemic Through Information, Community, and Action. [PDF]
Soc Media Soc, 2023 Nau C, Quan-Haase A, McLaughlin R.
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, 2016 This paper examines the tumblarians as an information community and discusses community membership, information behaviours, and complementary models for a situated understanding of this unique personal-professional community.
Hockin, Tamarack
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