Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of NodeXL in the context of
news diffusion. Journalists often include a social media dimension in their stories but lack …

The paper presents a systematic literature review of empirical studies on the use of Twitter
by higher education academics for professional development. Using content and thematic …

High quality cross-platform research is difficult and expensive to perform in political
communication. Yet studying media platforms in isolation ignores the realities of the …

Twitter sentiment analysis provides valuable feedback from public emotion concerning
certain events or products. Current research has been focused on obtaining sentiment …

This analysis examines the literature on gendered media coverage of women candidates for
higher office, and considers how biases in the treatment of candidates based on gender may …

This analysis investigates the presence of rape myths in the policy context, as reflected in
social media, and considers how those myths might manifest in policy related to sexual …

This paper sets out quantitative findings from a research project examining the dynamics of
online counter-narratives against hate speech, focusing on# StopIslam, a hashtag that …

We present Community Connect, a custom social media platform for conducting controlled
experiments of human behavior. The key distinguishing factor of Community Connect is the …

Social research has benefitted from big data and the evaluation community is embracing
thinking and approaches that extract value from big data. This article describes how Twitter …

With the increasing popularity of microblogging and social media platforms like Twitter,
researchers are trying to make use of the massive amount of user-created data to explore …