In this section we highlight a selection of our relevant publications in the area of social media research. Where possible we offer pre-publications for download.

Forthcoming

Thelwall, M., Sud, P., & Wilkinson, D. (in press). Link and co-inlink network diagrams with URL citations or title mentions. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Thelwall, M., & Sud, P. (2012). Webometric research with the Bing Search API 2.0. Journal of Informetrics, 6(1), 44-52.

Thelwall, M., Sud, P., & Vis, F. (in press). Commenting on YouTube videos: From Guatemalan rock to El Big Bang. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Thelwall, M., Buckley, K., & Paltoglou, G. (in press). Sentiment strength detection for the social Web. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Vis, F. (2012), Tagging Islam online: the fastest growing religion on YouTube, for edited collection (Linda Woodhead et al), Everyday Islam in Europe, IB Taurus.

Vis, F. (2012), Online strive: Islam, conflict and gender on YouTube, Media, Religion and Gender Edited (Editor: Mia Lövheim), volume in to be published in the Routledge series “Media, Religion & Culture”, editors Stewart Hoover, Jolyon Mitchell, David Morgan.

2011

Chmiel, A., Sienkiewicz, J., Thelwall, M., Paltoglou, G., Buckley, K., Kappas, A. & Hołyst, J.A. (2011). Collective emotions online and their influence on community life, PLoS ONE, 6(7): e22207.

Kousha, K., Thelwall, & Rezaie, S. (2011). Assessing the citation impact of books: The role of Google Books, Google Scholar and Scopus. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(11) 2147–2164.

Mihelj, S., Van Zoonen, L., and Vis, F., (2011), ‘Cosmopolitanism and the Muslim Ummah On-line: ‘YouTubers’ responding to the anti-Islam film Fitna’. British Journal of Sociology.

Thelwall, M. & Sud, P. (2011). A comparison of methods for collecting web citation data for academic organisations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(8), 1488–1497.

Thelwall, M., Buckley, K., & Paltoglou, G. (2011). Sentiment in Twitter events. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(2), 406-418. [read a summary in this science blog]

Vis, F., van Zoonen, L. and Mihelj, S., (2011), ‘Women responding to the anti-Islam film Fitna: voices and acts of citizenship on YouTube’, Feminist Review, 97(1): 110-129.

Vis, F (2011, forthcoming). ‘Innovative Methods for Studying YouTube’ for edited collection (Linda Woodhead), Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion: Research in Practice, Oxford University Press.

Van Zoonen, L., Mihelj, S. and Vis, F., (2011, in press), ‘YouTube interactions between agonism, antagonism and dialogue: video responses to the anti-Islam film Fitna’, New Media & Society.

2010

Angus, E., Thelwall, M., Stuart, D. (2010). Flickr’s potential as an academic image resource: an exploratory study. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 42(4) 268–278.

Thelwall, M., Buckley, K., Paltoglou, G., Cai, D., & Kappas, A. (2010). Sentiment strength detection in short informal text. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(12), 2544-2558. [sentistrength web site]

Thelwall, M., Wilkinson, D. & Uppal, S.(2010). Data mining emotion in social network communication: Gender differences in MySpace, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), 190-199.

Thelwall, M. & Wilkinson, D. (2010). Public dialogs in social network sites: What is their purpose? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(2), 392-404.

Wilkinson, D. & Thelwall, M. (2011). Researching personal information on the public Web: Methods and ethics, Social Science Computer Review, 29(4), 387-401.(please email for a copy).Related e-research ethics article.

Wilkinson, D. & Thelwall, M. (2010). Social network site changes over time: The case of MySpace. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(11), 2311–2323.

Van Zoonen, L., Vis, F., and Mihelj, S. (2010), ‘Emerging citizenship on YouTube: activism, satire and online debate around the anti-Islam video Fitna’, Critical Discourse Studies, 7(4): 249-262

2009

Cugelman, B., Thelwall, M., & Dawes, P. (2009). The dimensions of website credibility and their relation to active trust and behavioural impact, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 24, 455-472.

Kousha, K. & Thelwall, M. (2009). Google Book Search: Citation analysis for social science and the humanities, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(8), 1537-1549.

Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M., (2009). Sentiment analysis: A combined approach, Journal of Informetrics, 3(1), 143-157.

Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M., Hellsten I., & Scharnhorst A., (2008). Evolving debate in online communication: A graph analytical approach, Internet Research.18(5), 520-540.

Shifman, L. & Thelwall, M. (2009). Assessing global diffusion with Web Memetics: The spread and evolution of a popular joke, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 60(12), 2567-2576.

Thelwall, M. (2009). Homophily in MySpace, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.60(2), 219-231.

Thelwall, M. (2009). MySpace comments. Online Information Review, 33(1), 58-76.[an analysis of words used in MySpace comments]

Vis, F. (2009) ‘Wikinews reporting of Huricane Katrina’, in S. Allan and E. Thorsen (eds) Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang

2008

Angus, E., Thelwall, M., & Stuart D. (2008). General patterns of tag usage among university groups in Flickr, Online Information Review, 32(1), 89-101.

Park, H. W., & Thelwall, M. (2008). Developing network indicators for ideological landscapes from the political blogosphere in South Korea. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(4), 856-879.

Thelwall, M. (2008). No place for news in social networking web sites? Online Information Review, 32(6), 726-744.

Thelwall, M. (2008). Social networks, gender and friending: An analysis of MySpace member profiles, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(8), 1321-1330.

Thelwall, M., Wouters, P., & Fry, J. (2008). Information-Centred Research for large-scale analysis of new information sources, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(9), 1523-1527.

Thelwall, M. (2008). Quantitative comparisons of search engine results, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(11), 1702-1710. [See also Google patents, which are relevant and I hadn't spotted at the time. Particularly this]

Thelwall, M. (2008). Fk yea I swear: Cursing and gender in a corpus of MySpace pages, Corpora, 3(1), 83-107. Preprint (with extended literature review and background information compared to the published version, and a revised first two paragraphs of the conclusion [8 Jan, 2008]) available at: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1993/papers/MySpaceSwearing_online.doc 

2007

Prabowo, R., Thelwall, M. & Alexandrov, M. (2007). Generating overview timelines for major events in an RSS corpus. Journal of Informetrics, 1(2), 131-144.

Thelwall, M. & Stuart, D. (2007). RUOK? Communication technologies blogged during a crisis. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12(9).

2006

Thelwall, M. & Hellsten, I. (2006). The BBC, Telegraph and Wikinews timelines of the London Attacks: A comparison with contemporary discussions. Information Research 12(1).