Social media revolutions

France, Russia, China: A Structural Analysis of Social Revolutions

'A revolution', writes Samuel P. Huntington in Political Order in Changing Societies, 'is a rapid, fundamental, and violent domestic change in the dominant values and myths of a society, in its political institutions, social structure, leadership, and government activities and policies'.' In The Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution, Lenin provides a different, but comple...

Technological Revolutions

In skill-biased (de-skilling) technological revolutions learning investments required by new machines are greater (smaller) than those required by preexisting machines. Skill-biased (de-skilling) revolutions trigger reallocations of capital from slow(fast-) to fast(slow-) learning workers, thereby reducing the relative and absolute wages of the former. The model of skill-biased (de-skilling) re...

Philosophical Revolutions

Social Media Mining: Major Concerns in Social Media Mining

Social Media has gained remarkable attention. This is due to the affordability of accessing social network sites such as Twitter, Google+, Facebook and other social network sites. Organizations and people relying on the Social Media for information and opinion of other users on diverse subject matters Online Social Network (OSN) mining has been a active area of research in the current years. Th...

How Noisy Social Media Text, How Diffrnt Social Media Sources?

While various claims have been made about text in social media text being noisy, there has never been a systematic study to investigate just how linguistically noisy or otherwise it is over a range of social media sources. We explore this question empirically over popular social media text types, in the form of YouTube comments, Twitter posts, web user forum posts, blog posts and Wikipedia, whi...