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ESOMAR Guideline on Social Media Research

July 2011

This document aims to provide guidance for the use of social media in market, social and opinion research.

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Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Sch ...

2008

This article deals with how social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach.

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Mapping Networks of Influence: Tracking Twitter Co ...

May 2015

This article attempts to understand how networks of influence are formed among Twitter users, and the relative influence of global news media organizations and information providers in the Twittersphere during such global news events.

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A Review of Facebook Research in the Social Scienc ...

May 2012

This article deals with the rapidly growing body of research that has accompanied the meteoric rise of Facebook as social scientists assess the impact of Facebook on social life.

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Demographics of Key Social Networking Platforms

January 2015

This brief report is based on a September 2014 survey and includes statistical data on users of social media and networking platforms, comparing the years 2013 and 2014 for the differences in gender, age, race, education, wage, and demographic location (i.e. rural, suburban, urban).

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How Jihadist Networks Maintain a Persistent Online ...

2015

The article examines the activity of the ‘media mujahedeen’ – the supporters of jihadist groups who disseminate propaganda content online.

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Predicting Opinion Leaders in Twitter Activism Net ...

December 2015

This study employs content and network analysis techniques to explore the predictors of opinion leadership in a political activist network on Twitter. The results demonstrate the feasibility of using user-generated content to measure user characteristics.

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Twitter and the #Ottawa Attacks

November 2014

This article assesses the degree to which social media, but primarily Twitter, contributed to hysteric reactions surrounding the lone gunman during the 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa.

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Rumors, False Flags, and Digital Vigilantes: Misin ...

2014

This article discusses how the Boston Marathon bombing story unfolded on every possible carrier of information available in the spring of 2013, including Twitter.

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Options and Strategies for Countering Online Radic ...

2013

The purpose of this article is to inform the wider, academic debate about strategies and options for countering online radicalization within the U.S. domestic context.

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This portal gathers an annotated collection of recent research on the ways in which social media and new technologies may be leveraged in the fight against violent extremism

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