...Hiroki Hara; Yoshikatsu Fujita; Kazuhiko Tsuda Purpose This paper aims to estimate the population in a specific space from the numbers of posted tweets and their senders, using Twitter's real-time property and location information data. Design/methodology/approach The population...

... along ethnic, religious and political boundaries. The purpose of this paper is to check for the presence of hate speech in social media platforms like Twitter, and to what degree is hate speech permissible, if available? It also intends to find out what monitoring mechanisms the social media platforms...

... topics on Twitter is proposed. Also, measures to evaluate the topical cohesiveness of a group are introduced. Inspired from precision and recall, the proposed measures, called expertise and representativeness, assess how a set of groups match the topic distribution. An adapted measure is also introduced...

... Internet Blogs RSS Twitter I reviewed the first edition of this book back in 2007 when I was working on a project to explore social software (or social media as it's more commonly now called) the use of libraries by distance learners. At the time I was conducting my literature review Sauers had...

.... Examining such real‐time information exchange is important as users rely on this for various purposes such as seeking help and evaluating the airline services before purchasing. Design/methodology/approach This study uses Twitter, a popular microblog service. An analysis of 8,978 postings that mention...

..., and engage with communities in the spaces of their choosing. Findings The Web Team has been active in moving into the social media space, and was an early adopter of popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The social bookmarking site Delicious also became an integral part of the new...