Title of Document: THE EMOTIONS SOCIAL MEDIA BRING TO NEWS: THE EMERGENCE OF EMPATHY AND COMPASSION FOR ELEMENTS OF NEWS MESSAGES. EunRyung Chong Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Directed By: John E. Newhagen, Ph.D. Associate Professor Philip Merrill College of Journalism This study is an experiment examining qualitative differences of social media as an emerging news platform from traditional main s...

Intro: This paper outlines the design, dissemination and recruitment of participants into a global online survey examining perceptions regarding the value of social media for chronic pain self-management. Building on literature supporting the use of online survey in health research design, we outline the step-by-step process involved in creating this survey and also discuss how use of social me...

Unsolicited or unwanted messages is a byproduct of virtually every popular social media website. Spammers have become increasingly proficient at bypassing conventional spam filters, prompting a stronger effort to develop new methods that accurately detect spam while simultaneously acting as a more robust classifier against users that modify their behavior in order to avoid detection. This paper...

The online social communities employ several techniques to attract more users to their services. One of the essential demand of these communities is to find efficient ways to attract more users and improve their engagement. For this reason, social media sites typically take advantage of gamification systems to improve users’ participation. Among all the gamification services, badges are the mos...

Governments increasingly leverage social media to deliver better services to the public. Web 2.0 technologies enable people to interact and collaborate with one another efficiently and effectively. The use of web 2.0 technologies by government – government 2.0 – enables citizen to interact and collaborate with government in the delivery of public services. This exploratory study examines the us...

Scholarly research into the uses of social media has become a major area of growth in recent years, as the adoption of social media for public communication itself has continued apace. While social media platforms provide ready avenues for data access through their Application Programming interfaces, it is increasingly important to think through exactly what these data represent, and what concl...

Deception is frequently used in cyber attacks. Detecting deception is always a challenge, as witnessed in attacks in social media and other online environments. Contexts can help to identify deception. Unfortunately, there is not much literature available in this aspect. This paper explores the unique properties of contextual binding. It examines roles that it plays. It also proposes a novel ap...

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In the era of Social Web, there has been an explosive growth of user-contributed comments posted to various online social media. However, increasingly more misleading and deceptive user comments found at online social media have also been a great concern for consumers and merchants, and social spam have been brought to the attention by the legal circle in recent years. Social spam can cause tre...

The paper discusses opportunities and challenges of social media and social media analytics for the purpose of policy and decision making. The EU-FP7 ICT project UniteEurope is presented as an innovative on-going research and development project that combines the expertise and perspectives of technical practitioners, researchers and policy makers for elaborating a scientifically based social me...