Social Media in Contemporary Geopolitical Processes

About the survey of propagandistic messages in contemporary social media

INTRODUCTION Currently social networks are very popular, rapidly developing and becoming an integral part of the Internet users’ lives. The purpose of this research is to define the parameters of such promotional messages that influence the perception of information. The object of research is social networking services on the Internet. The subject under research is the process of promoting soci...

Social Media in Organizations: Leveraging Personal and Collective Knowledge Processes

Using Gaussian Processes for Rumour Stance Classification in Social Media

Social media tend to be rife with rumours while new reports are released piecemeal during breaking news. Interestingly, one can mine multiple reactions expressed by social media users in those situations, exploring their stance towards rumours, ultimately enabling the flagging of highly disputed rumours as being potentially false. In this work, we set out to develop an automated, supervised cla...

A Tutorial on Hawkes Processes for Events in Social Media

This chapter provides an accessible introduction for point processes, and especially Hawkes processes, for modeling discrete, inter-dependent events over continuous time. We start by reviewing the definitions and the key concepts in point processes. We then introduce the Hawkes process, its event intensity function, as well as schemes for event simulation and parameter estimation. We also descr...

Internet Use in the Contemporary Media Environment

ecent developments in computer hardware and software, data exchange protocols, compression technologies, and the physical communication infrastructure have quickly made the Internet-World Wide Web (WWW) a viable communication technology used by an estimated 147 million people (Computer Industry Almanac, 1999) in 171 countries (Zakon, 1999). Researchers have examined Internet content (McLaughlin...