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The State of the Art: A Literature Review of Socia ...

November 2013

This article is a seminal piece and a foundational resource in the field of social media analytics and open source intelligence by some of the field’s leading authors.

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State of the Art 2015: a literature review of soci ...

September 2015

This is a foundational report and a seminal work in the study of social media intelligence and open source research. The paper reviews 245 papers in a semi-systematic literature review of how information and insight can be drawn from open social media sources.

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What every jihadi in Syria needs: hair gel, an iPa ...

2013

This short news article in The Daily Telegraph discusses European and North American jihadis’ use of Twitter and social media in Syria.

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New Terrorism and New Media

2014

This short 2014 article discusses the turn to social media by Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, and particularly their presence on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media sites.

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Adaptive Event Profiler: An innovative state-of-th ...

2014

This short diagram and explanation briefly introduces researchers to the adaptive event-profiling tool STEER that can be used for event detection.

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National Security and Social Media Monitoring: A P ...

2013

This 2013 article focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and particularly social media monitoring of Twitter for purposes of national security.

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Geolocation Prediction in Social Media Data by Fin ...

2012

This article addresses the degree to which geolocation prediction is vital to geospatial applications like localised search and local event detection.

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Text-Based Twitter User Geolocation Prediction

March 2014

This article reveals just how vital geographical location is to geospatial applications like local search and event detection. In this paper, the research team investigates and seeks to improve on the task of text-based geolocation prediction of Twitter users.

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SUPER: Towards the Use of Social Sensors for Secur ...

May 2015

In this paper, the authors argue that despite the widespread use of social media in various domains (e.g.

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Down the (White) Rabbit Hole: The Extreme Right an ...

August 2015

This source pertains to the method by which extreme right and hate groups take advantage of user-generated video content websites’ recommender systems to pander to wider, more susceptible audiences.

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