Advances in Social Media Analysis and Decentralized Platforms

The field of social media analysis is moving towards the development of novel methods for integrating and analyzing multi-source data to improve situational awareness and crisis response. Researchers are leveraging AI-driven approaches, such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Large Language Models, to refine crisis-related social media content and identify subtle cognitive inconsistencies in malicious linguistic steganography. Another key direction is the study of decentralized social media protocols, with a focus on understanding how these protocols operationalize decentralization and distribute power among component owners. Noteworthy papers include: Signals from the Floods, which introduced a novel AI-driven method for refining crisis-related social media content. GSDFuse, which presented a state-of-the-art method for capturing cognitive inconsistencies in social media steganalysis. Bridging the Narrative Divide, which developed a platform-agnostic framework for reconstructing social graphs and information diffusion networks. Seeing the Politics of Decentralized Social Media Protocols, which analyzed four decentralized social media protocols to develop a novel conceptual framework for understanding how protocols operationalize decentralization.

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Signals from the Floods: AI-Driven Disaster Analysis through Multi-Source Data Fusion

GSDFuse: Capturing Cognitive Inconsistencies from Multi-Dimensional Weak Signals in Social Media Steganalysis

Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems

Retweets, Receipts, and Resistance: Discourse, Sentiment, and Credibility in Public Health Crisis Twitter

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Seeing the Politics of Decentralized Social Media Protocols

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