...Tomu Tominaga; Yoshinori Hijikata Social media profile images are one of many visual components of users. Moreover, user activities such as posting or chatting are regarded as self-expression behaviors. In this study, we examine Japanese Twitter users to explore the relationship between user...

...Kareem Darwish; Walid Magdy; Afshin Rahimi; Timothy Baldwin; Norah Abokhodair The tragic Paris terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015 sparked a massive global discussion on Twitter and other social media, with millions of tweets in the first few hours after the attacks. Most of these tweets were...

..., it needs to develop innovative strategies around these channels, to maximize audience engagement with the news it provides. In this paper, we focus on the issue of developing one such strategy for spreading news on Twitter. Using tweet corpora from two national news ecosystems - 1.7M tweets from 200...

...Stephanie Linek; Asmelash Teka Hadgu; Christian Pieter Hoffmann; Robert Jäschke; Cornelius Puschmann In this paper we investigate the role of the academic status in the following behaviour of computer scientists on Twitter. Based on a uses and gratifications perspective, we focus on the activity...