Papers in this group
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This paper advances the study of microblogging and political events by investigating how one high-profile broadcast acted as a stimulus to real-time commentary from viewers using Twitter. Our case study is a controversial, high-ratings episode of…
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Blogs and tweets are ripping papers apart within days of publication, leaving researchers unsure how to react.
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Over the last few years, microblogging has gained prominence as a form of personal broadcasting media where information and opinion are mixed together without an established order, usually tightly linked with current reality. Location awareness and…
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The author reflects on the significance of the social networking web site twitter. He argues that the social connectedness that comes to characterize cyberspace are largely molded by the youths of today. He states that the creators of the Internet…
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This paper sets out some new ways of thinking and doing pedagogy in the twenty-first century. It indicates how 'content' and 'learning' are being transformed in the new millennium, and considers some quite precise ways in which schools and…
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The notion of community has often been caught between concrete social relationships and imagined sets of people perceived to be similar. The rise of the Internet has refocused our attention on this ongoing tension. The Internet has enabled people…
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Micro-blogs, a relatively new phenomenon, provide a new communication channel for people to broadcast information that they likely would not share otherwise using existing channels (e.g., email, phone, IM, or weblogs). Micro-blogging has become…
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PMID: 20166757
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Researchers are mining Twitter's vast flow of data to measure public sentiment, follow political activity, and detect earthquakes and flu outbreaks.
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Twitter is a popular microblogging service where users create status messages (called "tweets"). These tweets sometimes express opinions about different topics. The purpose of this project is to build an algorithm that can accurately classify…
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Users on Twitter, a microblogging service, started the phenome- non of adding tags to their messages sometime around February 2008. These tags are distinct from those in other Web 2.0 systems because users are less likely to index messages for later…
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We analyze the information credibility of news propagated through Twitter, a popular microblogging service. Previous research has shown that most of the messages posted on Twitter are truthful, but the service is also used to spread misinformation…
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Scholars are increasingly using the microblogging service Twitter as a communication platform. Since citing is a central practice of scholarship, we wondered whether scholars cite on Twitter; and, if so, how and why they cite. To investigate these…