Mathematics in Social Media

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in social media and machine learning, addressing research innovations, applications, trends, and open challenges in this crucial area.

This book sheds light on the challenges facing social media in combating malicious accounts, and aims to introduce current practices to address the challenges. It further provides an in-depth investigation regarding characteristics of “Pathogenic Social Media (PSM),”by focusing on how they differ from other social bots (e.g., trolls, sybils and cyborgs) and normal users as well as how PSMs communicate to achieve their malicious goals.

This book sheds light on the challenges facing social media in combating malicious accounts, and aims to introduce current practices to address the challenges. It further provides an in-depth investigation regarding characteristics of “Pathogenic Social Media (PSM),”by focusing on how they differ from other social bots (e.g., trolls, sybils and cyborgs) and normal users as well as how PSMs communicate to achieve their malicious goals.

by Susanne Ørnager (Author),‎ Haakon Lund (Author),‎ Gary Marchionini (Editor)

by Andrea Ceron (Author), Luigi Curini (Author), Stefano Maria Iacus (Author)

The Internet has truly grown humongous especially in the last decade with the rise of various forms of social media, which give users a platform to express themselves and also communicate and collaborate with each other. This book will help the user to understand the current social media landscape and how analytics can be leveraged to derive insights from it. This data can be analyzed for gaining valuable insights into the behavior and engagement of users, organizations, businesses, and brands. It will help readers in framing business problems and solving those using social data.

At a time when the news cycle turns on a tweet, journalism gets confused with opinion, and facts are treated as negotiable information, applying critical thinking skills to your social media consumption is more important than ever.

This proceedings book presents state-of-the-art developments in theory, methodology, and applications of network analysis across sociology, computational science, education research, literature studies, political science, international relations, social media research, and urban studies.