Computational, AI, and Data-Driven Social Media Research

 
 
JSOMER Thematic Collection 06

Computational, AI, and Data-Driven Social Media Research

Studies using computational methods, multilingual analysis, large language models, analytics, digital trace data, or automated approaches to examine social media phenomena.

This thematic collection brings together previously published JSOMER articles on computational, AI, and data-driven social media research. The collection is intended to support topic-based discovery across volumes and issues and will be reviewed as new JSOMER content is published.

Inclusion Criterion

Articles are included when computational analysis, artificial intelligence, large language models, automated classification, sentiment analysis, digital trace data, or social media analytics forms a substantive part of the method or contribution.

Collection Information

Curated by: JSOMER Editorial Office
Last updated: July 21, 2026

This curated discovery collection is not a separately published issue. Every article retains its original bibliographic record and version of record.

Articles in This Collection

01
 

Extracting emerging events from social media: X/Twitter and the multilingual analysis of emerging geopolitical topics in near real time

John Burns, Tom Kelsey, Carl Donovan

Review Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 1 (2025)  ·  2025

02
 

Us vs. Them: Moral, Cognitive and Affective Language in Group Identity Tweets

Ares Boira-Lopez, Joseph Stewart, Hairong Song, Marina Mery, Divya Patel, Cecelia Gordon, Bachazile Sikhondze, Shane Connelly, Matthew Jensen, Shaila Miranda

Review Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 2 (2025)  ·  2025

03
 

Multilingual X/Twitter sentiment analysis of geopolitical risk using granger causality focusing on the Ukraine war and financial markets

John Burns, Tom Kelsey, Carl Donovan

Review Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 2 (2025)  ·  2025

04
 

Comparison of commercial decoder-only large language models for multilingual sentiment analysis of short text

John Burns, Tom Kelsey

Review Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 4 (2025)  ·  2025

05
 

Tweets, likes, and click-throughs: assessing the return on investment of higher education social media marketing initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic

Christina Crovetto

Original Research Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 4 (2025)  ·  2025

06
 

Social media analytics for investigations: A survey of recent trends, challenges and future research direction

Sarbagya Shakya, Edgar Ceh-Varela

Review Article  ·  Vol. 2, No. 4 (2025)  ·  2025

07
 

The vax files: Social media reactions to pandemic plotlines

Giovanna Henery

Original Article  ·  Vol. 3, No. 1 (2026)  ·  2026

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