Abstract Over the last years, prodigious success of online social media sites has marked a shift in way people connect and share information. Coincident with this trend is proliferation location-aware devices consequent emergence user-generated geospatial data. From scientific perspective, these location data are incredible value as it can be mined to provide researchers useful information abou...

Drawing on network theory, this study considers the content of U.S. presidential debates and how candidates’ language differentiates them. Semantic network analyses of all U.S. presidential debates (1960–2004) were conducted. Results reveal that regardless of party affiliation, election winners were more central in their semantic networks than losers. Although the study does not argue causation...