Cloud applications are increasingly shifting from large monolithic services, to large numbers
of loosely-coupled, specialized microservices. Despite their advantages in terms of …

Public sector institutions that consult citizens to inform decision-making face the challenge of
evaluating the contributions made by citizens. This evaluation has important democratic …

People's activities and opinions recorded as digital traces online, especially on social media
and other web-based platforms, offer increasingly informative pictures of the public. They …

Many hoped that social networking sites would allow for the open exchange of information
and a revival of the public sphere. Unfortunately, conversations on social media are often …

Twitter was an integral part of Donald Trump's communication platform during his 2016
campaign. Although its topical content has been examined by researchers and the media …

This paper aims to aid the ongoing research efforts for combating the Infodemic related to
COVID-19. We provide an automatically annotated, bilingual (Arabic/English) COVID-19 …

Abstract In November 2017 Twitter doubled the available character space from 140 to 280
characters. This provided an opportunity for researchers to investigate the linguistic effects of …

YouTube introduced the Shorts video format in 2021, allowing users to upload short videos
that are prominently displayed on its website and app. Despite having such a large visual …

Due to the worldwide accessibility to the Internet along with the continuous advances in
mobile technologies, physical and digital worlds have become completely blended, and the …

Increasingly content sharing websites such as social media have become very popular in
many countries across the world. Classifying the gender of a person based on these short …