Sensibly highlighting the hidden structures of many real-world networks has attracted
growing interest and triggered a vast array of techniques on what is called nowadays …

Identifying and tracking community structures in complex networks are one of the
cornerstones of network studies, spanning multiple disciplines, from statistics to machine …

Political campaigning on social media is a core feature of contemporary democracy.
However, evidence of the effectiveness of this type of campaigning is thin. This study tests …

The rise of populism has turned researchers' attention to the importance of affect in politics.
This is a corpus-assisted study investigating lexis in the semantic domain of anger and …

Finding communities of connected individuals in complex networks is challenging, yet
crucial for understanding different real-world societies and their interactions. Recently …

Social media is an important arena for policy contestation. Although online social media
debates can yield notable power over political processes offline, little research has …

The transformation from authoritative to user-generated data landscapes has garnered
considerable attention, notably with the proliferation of crowdsourced geospatial data …

Social scientists have long studied international differences in political culture and
communication. An influential strand of theory within political science argues that different …

Tweeting Brexit presents the most thorough examination of the role that the most political
social network, Twitter, played in creating, negotiating, and challenging Brexit narratives …

Recent years have seen a veritable boom in the creation of policy labs. These institution-
based innovation laboratories aim to open up the processes of public policy design to the …