Student research opportunities
Studying Real-world Events in Social Media
Project Code: CECS_790
This project is available at the following levels:
Honours, Summer Scholar, Masters, PhD
Keywords:
social media, social networks
Supervisor:
Dr Lexing XieOutline:
This project aims to map the traces that real-world events (e.g. elections, occupy wallst, or natural disasters) leave on social media.
We aim to understand the evolution of events, and dynamics at which events spread on the social media space, including twitter, blogs, youtube.
Background Literature
Event Diffusion Patterns in Social Media (2012)
Minkyoung Kim, Lexing Xie, Peter Christen, Intl. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 8 pages, Dublin, Ireland, June 2012, to appear pdf
