Metrics derived from Twitter and other social media—often referred to as altmetrics—are
increasingly used to estimate the broader social impacts of scholarship. Such efforts …

While social media has become an empowering agent to individual voices and freedom of
expression, it also facilitates anti-social behaviors including online harassment …

Search systems in online social media sites are frequently used to find information about
ongoing events and people. For topics with multiple competing perspectives, such as …

Users frequently use search systems on the Web as well as online social media to learn
about ongoing events and public opinion on personalities. Prior studies have shown that the …

Over the past few years, there is a heated debate and serious public concerns regarding
online content moderation, censorship, and the principle of free speech on the Web. To ease …

Relying on Gudykunst's cultural variability in communication (CVC) framework and culture-
specific facial expressions of emotion, we examined how people's use of emoticons varies …

Twitter has unarguably been the most popular among the data sources that form the basis of
so-called altmetrics. Tweets to scholarly documents have been heralded as both early …

Though a fair amount of research is being done to address disinformation in online social
media, it has so far managed to stay ahead of the researchers' learning curves forcing the …

Finding topic experts on microblogging sites with millions of users, such as Twitter, is a hard
and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose and investigate a new methodology for …

Recent publications question the public visibility of communication science as a discipline
and its relevance for the broader society. To address this issue, we analyze the public …