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Towards the social media studies of science: social media metrics, present and future
In this paper we aim at providing a general reflection around the presen...
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Bot Electioneering Volume: Visualizing Social Bot Activity During Elections
It has been widely recognized that automated bots may have a significant...
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Social Media Alerts can Improve, but not Replace Hydrological Models for Forecasting Floods
Social media can be used for disaster risk reduction as a complement to ...
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Global Software Engineering in the Age of GitHub and Zoom
Much has changed since the inaugural ICGSE conference in 2006. Tools hav...
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The Investigation of Social Media Data Thresholds for Opinion Formation
The pervasive use of social media has grown to over two billion users to...
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Engaging Users through Social Media in Public Libraries
The participatory library is an emerging concept which refers to the ide...
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Raising Awareness of Conveyed Personality In Social Media Traces
Users' persistent social media contents like posts on Facebook Timeline ...
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Situational Awareness Enhanced through Social Media Analytics: A Survey of First Responders
Social media data has been increasingly used to facilitate situational awareness during events and emergencies such as natural disasters. While researchers have investigated several methods to summarize, visualize or mine the data for analysis, first responders have not been able to fully leverage research advancements largely due to the gap between academic research and deployed, functional systems. In this paper, we explore the opportunities and barriers for the effective use of social media data from first responders' perspective. We present the summary of several detailed interviews with first responders on their use of social media for situational awareness. We further assess the impact of SMART-a social media visual analytics system-on first responder operations.
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