From Social Space to Online Social Media Space: Research Approaches and Challenges

Latent Space Approaches to Social Network Analysis

Network models are widely used to represent relational information among interacting units. In studies of social networks, recent emphasis has been placed on random graph models where the nodes usually represent individual social actors and the edges represent the presence of a speciŽ ed relation between actors. We develop a class of models where the probability of a relation between actors dep...

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Agora: Shaping Social Space from Information Space

Agora is a Java based client-server tool that provides for both synchronous and asynchronous communication within the context of a web page. Real-time text based ‘chat’ is augmented by shared news, personal mail, recent visitor history and user profiles.

Social Media Data in Research: Provenance Challenges

Online Social Media and Police in India: Behavior, Perceptions, Challenges

Police agencies across the globe are increasingly using Online Social Media (OSM) to acquire intelligence and connect with citizens. Developed nations have well thought of strategies to use OSM for policing. However, developing nations like India are exploring and evolving OSM as a policing solution. India, in recent years, experienced many events where rumors and fake content on OSM instigated...