Social data in digital form—including user-generated content, expressed or implicit relations
between people, and behavioral traces—are at the core of popular applications and …

Urban computing is an emerging area of investigation in which researchers study cities
using digital data. Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) generate one specific type of …

Relying on Gudykunst's cultural variability in communication (CVC) framework and culture-
specific facial expressions of emotion, we examined how people's use of emoticons varies …

Brand post popularity positively relates to consumers' purchase intentions, actual sales, and
stock prices. Research suggests that social media posts should be vivid, practical …

Social media platforms present numerous challenges to empirical research, making it
different from researching cases in offline environments, but also different from studying the …

Online interactions are increasingly involving images, especially those containing human
faces, which are naturally attention grabbing and more effective at conveying feelings than …

As one of the Web's primary multilingual knowledge sources, Wikipedia is read by millions of
people across the globe every day. Despite this global readership, little is known about why …

Purpose The aim of this paper is to introduce a holistic decolonial lens for Library and
Information Studies (LIS). As such it centres in the following questions: what does …

Food and drink are two of the most basic needs of human beings. However, as society
evolved, food and drink became also a strong cultural aspect, being able to describe strong …

As fake news spreads rapidly in social media, attempts to develop detection technology to
automatically identify fake news are actively being developed, recently. However, most of …