Advances in Social Media Analysis and AI-Driven Insights

The field of social media analysis and AI-driven insights is rapidly evolving, with a growing focus on developing innovative methods and frameworks to extract valuable information from online data. Recent studies have highlighted the importance of localized datasets and task-specific training in improving the accuracy of social media analysis tools. The use of multimodal datasets, such as those combining text and image data, has also shown promise in enhancing the performance of these tools. Furthermore, the application of AI-driven methodologies, including large language models and graph neural networks, has enabled researchers to uncover emerging trends and patterns in social media data, with potential applications in fields such as sustainability and crisis management. Noteworthy papers in this area include the introduction of the WildFireCan-MMD dataset, which provides a valuable resource for analyzing user-generated content during wildfires, and the development of the SCRAG framework, which forecasts community responses to social media posts using a retrieval-augmented generation technique. Overall, these advances have significant implications for our understanding of online behavior and the development of more effective social media analysis tools.

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WildFireCan-MMD: A Multimodal dataset for Classification of User-generated Content During Wildfires in Canada

Controlled Territory and Conflict Tracking (CONTACT): (Geo-)Mapping Occupied Territory from Open Source Intelligence

Beyond Misinformation: A Conceptual Framework for Studying AI Hallucinations in (Science) Communication

Uncovering Conspiratorial Narratives within Arabic Online Content

Rhythm of Opinion: A Hawkes-Graph Framework for Dynamic Propagation Analysis

Beyond Binary Opinions: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach to Uncertainty-Aware Competitive Influence Maximization

An experimental study of the influence of anonymous information on social media users

Aspirational Affordances of AI

Computational Typology

Detecting Actionable Requests and Offers on Social Media During Crises Using LLMs

Leveraging Social Media Analytics for Sustainability Trend Detection in Saudi Arabias Evolving Market

Schelling segregation dynamics in densely-connected social network graphs

Debunking with Dialogue? Exploring AI-Generated Counterspeech to Challenge Conspiracy Theories

SCRAG: Social Computing-Based Retrieval Augmented Generation for Community Response Forecasting in Social Media Environments

A Constraint Opinion Model

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