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Polarization and acculturation in US Election 2016 outcomes – Can twitter analytics predict changes in voting preferences

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In this article, the authors investigated whether the nature of social media discussions have an impact on voting behavior during an election, through acculturation of ideologies and polarization of voter preferences, and found that discussions on Twitter could have polarized users significantly, and the reasons behind such polarization were explored using Newman and Sheth's model of voter's choice behavior.
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This article is published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change.The article was published on 2019-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 178 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social media analytics & Voting.

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Measuring social media influencer index- insights from facebook, Twitter and Instagram

TL;DR: A mechanism for measuring the influencer index across popular social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram is proposed and findings indicate that engagement, outreach, sentiment, and growth play a key role in determining the influencers.
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Theory building with big data-driven research – Moving away from the “What” towards the “Why”

TL;DR: Insight is provided on the methodological adaptations required in “big data studies” to be converted into “IS research” and contribute to theory building in information systems.
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Applications of big data in emerging management disciplines: A literature review using text mining

TL;DR: This study takes a systematic literature review approach to uncover the emerging management areas supported by big data in contemporary times using network analysis followed by natural language processing summarization techniques to find the emerging new management areas which are yet to get much attention.
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Investigating the impact of cybersecurity policy awareness on employees’ cybersecurity behavior

TL;DR: The results show that when employees are know of their company’s information security policy and procedures, they are more competent to manage cybersecurity tasks than those who are not aware of their companies’ cybersecurity policies.
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Community detection in graphs

TL;DR: A thorough exposition of community structure, or clustering, is attempted, from the definition of the main elements of the problem, to the presentation of most methods developed, with a special focus on techniques designed by statistical physicists.
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Community detection in graphs

TL;DR: A thorough exposition of the main elements of the clustering problem can be found in this paper, with a special focus on techniques designed by statistical physicists, from the discussion of crucial issues like the significance of clustering and how methods should be tested and compared against each other, to the description of applications to real networks.
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Immigration, Acculturation, and Adaptation

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework for cross-cultural psychology has been proposed, and some general findings and conclusions based on a sample of empirical studies have been presented, with a consideration of the social and psychological costs and benefits of adopting a pluralist and integrationist orientation to these issues.
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Content Analysis in Consumer Research

TL;DR: The use of documentary evidence such as historical records, novels, existing advertisements, and photographs has been little used in consumer research as mentioned in this paper, which has been shown to be useful in consumer behavior analysis.
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