@inproceedings{a4dc879491314ca2bcedd3c0407d4a1a,
title = "Social media and social reality: Theory, evidence and validation",
abstract = "Social Media provide an exciting and novel view into social phenomena. The vast amounts of data that can be gathered from the Internet coupled with massively parallel supercomputers such as the Cray XMT open new vistas for research. Conclusions drawn from such analysis must recognize that social media are distinct from the underlying social reality. Rigorous validation is essential. This paper briefly presents results obtained from computational analysis of social media -utilizing both blog and twitter data. Validation of these results is discussed in the context of a framework of established methodologies from the social sciences. Finally, an outline for a set of supporting studies is proposed.",
keywords = "Blogs, Graph theory, Method, Multimethod, Opinion leaders, Scale-free networks, Social media, Social science, Supercomputing, Thought leaders, Twitter, Validation",
author = "Reynolds, {William N.} and Weber, {Marta S.} and Farber, {Robert M.} and Courtney Corley and Cowell, {Andrew J.} and Michelle Gregory",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1109/ISI.2010.5484733",
language = "Ingl{\'e}s",
isbn = "9781424464609",
series = "ISI 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics: Public Safety and Security",
pages = "221--226",
booktitle = "ISI 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics",
note = "2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics: Public Safety and Security, ISI 2010 ; Conference date: 23-05-2010 Through 26-05-2010",
}