The rise of the internet and mobile telecommunications has created the possibility of using
large datasets to understand behavior at unprecedented levels of temporal and geographic …

Crisis motivates people to track news closely, and this increased engagement can expose
individuals to politically sensitive information unrelated to the initial crisis. We use the case …

In this chapter, we provide a fair assessment of these advantages and limitations in the use
of social media as data generators for research in the social sciences, with a particular …

How can we measure the resource mobilization (RM) efforts of social movements on
Twitter? In this article, we create the first ever measure of social movements' RM efforts on a …

Focal days of protest are increasingly common to episodes of revolutionary mobilization.
This paper explores the significance of focal days in patterning sustained protest in Egypt …

Purpose As more and more people are beginning to take virtual communities (VC) as
effective communication channels and the main places to get information and knowledge …

Scholars have offered multiple theoretical resolutions to explain inconsistent findings about
the relationship of state repression and protests, but this repression-dissent puzzle remains …

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 …

Ranking nodes based on their centrality stands a fundamental, yet, challenging problem in
large-scale networks. Approximate methods can quickly estimate nodes' centrality and …

We analyze socialbots active tweeting in relation to Juan Orlando Hernández, the recently
reelected president of Honduras. We find a clear bimodal separation between humans and …