Twitter is a microblogging website where users read and write millions of short messages on a variety of topics every day. This study uses the context of the German federal electi...
Andranik Tumasjan, Timm O. Sprenger, Philipp G. Sa...
Vlogs have rapidly evolved from the ’chat from your bedroom’ format to a highly creative form of expression and communication. However, despite the high popularity of vlogging...
User retention is important to the success of online social media, particularly in virtual world settings where users shape one another’s online experience. We study a rich set ...
While recent research examined the impressions projected by users of Social Network Sites through their relatively static online profiles, the addition of status updates to Facebo...
Vladimir Barash, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Ellen Isaacs,...
We investigate the impact of a discussion snippet’s overall sentiment on a user’s willingness to read more of a discussion. Using sentiment analysis, we constructed positive, ...
Hyung-il Ahn, Werner Geyer, Casey Dugan, David R. ...
In this paper we examine the effects of noise when creating a real-world weblog corpus for information retrieval. We focus on the DiffPost (Lee et al. 2008) approach to noise remo...
James Lanagan, Paul Ferguson, Neil O'Hare, Alan F....
We present an application for accessing and creating socially constructed sets of information. Users store and retrieve information, such as bits of text, through the use of "...
There is an ongoing debate, not just among academics but in popular culture, about whether social media can expand people's social networks, and whether online friends can be...
Microblogging concurrently with live media events is becoming commonplace. The resulting comment stream represents a parallel, social conversational reflection on the event. Altho...
David A. Shamma, Lyndon Kennedy, Elizabeth F. Chur...
Social media sites derive their value by providing a popular and dependable community for participants to engage, share, and interact. This community value and related services li...