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This paper critiques the use of a social network analysis methodology for examining the reach and influence of Instagram hashtags, paying particular attention to Instagram posts and hashtags that deal with the depiction and narrativization of natural ...

The internet has changed the transaction of buying and selling. Product promotion uses the internet because many people use space to share information. Social media is one of the means to convey information from companies to consumers. Each social ...

#MyBodyMyChoice is a well-known hashtag originally created to advocate for women’s rights, often used in discourse about abortion and bodily autonomy. The Covid-19 outbreak prompted governments to take containment measures such as vaccination campaigns ...

Social media acts as one of the eminent platforms for communication. Twitter is one of the leading social media microblogging platforms, where users can post and interact. #Hashtags specify the tweeter trends on a certain topic. Currently, the hashtag ...

Hashtag, a product of user tagging behavior, which can well describe the semantics of the user-generated content personally over social network applications, e.g., the recently popular micro-videos. Hashtags have been widely used to facilitate various ...

Since the inception of gatekeeping research in the 1940s, most studies on gatekeeping have been human‐centric, treating and studying individuals as gatekeepers, who perform their gatekeeping role using a combination of the following mechanisms: ...

As social network services (SNS) are expanding from friend-based to interest-based, users form a new type of relationships, namely interest-based relationships, with friends and others through social activities (e.g., likes, comments). Although such ...

We studied the topical preferences of social media campaigns of India's two main political parties by examining the tweets of 7382 politicians during the key phase of campaigning between Jan - May of 2019 in the run up to the 2019 general election. First,...

Students' confusion is a barrier for learning, contributing to loss of motivation and to disengagement with course materials. However, detecting students' confusion in large-scale courses is both time and resource intensive. This paper provides a new ...

Memory institutions and other organizations interested in preserving social media data are using a variety of collection level metadata to represent those materials. The aim of this paper is to start a dialogue within the metadata community about how ...

Communications on the popular social networking platform, Twitter, can be mapped in terms of a hashtag graph, where vertices correspond to hashtags, and edges correspond to co-occurrences of hashtags within the same distinct tweet. Furthermore, a vertex ...

Linguistic style and affect shape how users perceive and assess political content on social media. Using linguistic methods to compare political discourse on far-left, mainstream and alt-right news articles covering the #MeToo movement, we reveal ...

Online social activism ('slacktivism') carries low barriers to entry and is generally considered to be low risk and low impact for participants. However, recent social and political activism shows 'hashtag activism' is effective in mobilizing offline ...

Twitter data are widely used in the social sciences. The Twitter Application Programming Interface API allows researchers to build large databases of user activity efficiently. Despite the potential of Twitter as a data source, less attention has been ...

Social media generate large-scale data to study food and drink consumption in everyday life. Using Instagram posts in Switzerland over five years, our goal is two-fold. First, we extract key food & drink consumption patterns, through the lenses of a ...

Hashtags, created by social network users, have gained a huge popularity in recent years. As a kind of metatag for organizing information, hashtags in online social networks, especially in Instagram, have greatly facilitated users' interactions. In ...

Web identifiers such as usernames, hashtags, and domain names serve important roles in online navigation, communication, and community building. Therefore the entities that choose such names must ensure that end-users are able to quickly and accurately ...

Determining affective states such as confusion from students' participation in online discussion forums can be useful for instructors of a large classroom. However, manual annotation of forum posts by instructors or paid crowd workers is both time-...

Hashtags have become a powerful tool in social platforms such as Twitter to categorize and search for content, and to spread short messages across members of the social network. In this paper, we study temporal hashtag usage practices in Twitter with ...

The aim of this article is to engage with problems of sampling and completeness currently discussed within data science through the specific example of conversations in Twitter. Some of the difficulties involved in Twitter concern restrictions laid out ...