Social Media Is Redistributing Power

Understanding the predictive power of social media

Please check this box if you do not wish your email address to be published Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments that have enabled the improvement of manuscript's quality. The authors would also like to acknowledge that the Before that, he served as a Researcher Grade D at the research center CERTH/ITI and at research center NCSR "...

The power of prediction with social media

Social media today provide an impressive amount of data about users and their societal interactions, thereby offering computer and social scientists, economists, and statisticians – among others– many new opportunities for research exploration. Arguably, one of the most interesting lines of work is that of predicting future events and developments based on social media data, as we have recently...

Redistributing Light

Is social media suitable for patient recruitment?

2015 The use of social media is tremendously increasing since years and will continue its growth. Recent examples show that social media can also be used to attract patients to clinical trials and improve recruitment rates. In addition, retention of the patient is increased. Social media help in designing clinical trials by obtaining early feedback from possible patients, informing patients abo...

Potential Power and Problems in Sentiment Mining of Social Media

Sentiment mining (SM), also called opinion mining or sentiment analysis, has evolved over the last decade from text mining and natural language processing, but aims to determine the attitudes of individuals/groups with respect to some specific topics. More recently, SM has greatly assisted decision makers in extracting opinions from unstructured human-authored documents. SM is a computational p...