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News Consumption in Time of Conflict: 2021 Palestinian-Israel War as an Example
Kareem Darwish
This paper examines news consumption in response to a major polarizing event, and we use the May 2021 Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an example. We conduct a detailed analysis of…
Political Framing: US COVID19 Blame Game
Chereen Shurafa, Kareem Darwish, Wajdi Zaghouani
Through the use of Twitter, framing has become a prominent presidential campaign tool for politically active users. Framing is used to influence thoughts by evoking a particular pe…
Embeddings-Based Clustering for Target Specific Stances: The Case of a Polarized Turkey
Ammar Rashed, Mucahid Kutlu, Kareem Darwish +2
On June 24, 2018, Turkey conducted a highly consequential election in which the Turkish people elected their president and parliament in the first election under a new presidential…
A Few Topical Tweets are Enough for Effective User-Level Stance Detection
Younes Samih, Kareem Darwish
Stance detection entails ascertaining the position of a user towards a target, such as an entity, topic, or claim. Recent work that employs unsupervised classification has shown th…
Quantifying Polarization on Twitter: the Kavanaugh Nomination
Kareem Darwish
This paper addresses polarization quantification, particularly as it pertains to the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court and his subsequent confirmation with the…
Embedding-based Qualitative Analysis of Polarization in Turkey
Mucahid Kutlu, Kareem Darwish, Cansin Bayrak +2
On June 24, 2018, Turkey conducted a highly-consequential election in which the Turkish people elected their president and parliament in the first election under a new presidential…
Predicting the Topical Stance of Media and Popular Twitter Users
Peter Stefanov, Kareem Darwish, Atanas Atanasov +1
Discovering the stances of media outlets and influential people on current, debatable topics is important for social statisticians and policy makers. Many supervised solutions exis…
Unsupervised User Stance Detection on Twitter
Kareem Darwish, Peter Stefanov, Michaël Aupetit +1
We present a highly effective unsupervised framework for detecting the stance of prolific Twitter users with respect to controversial topics. In particular, we use dimensionality r…
To Kavanaugh or Not to Kavanaugh: That is the Polarizing Question
Kareem Darwish
On October 6, 2018, the US Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh with the narrowest margin for a successful confirmation since 1881 and where the senators voted overwhelmingly along par…
Devam vs. Tamam: 2018 Turkish Elections
Mucahid Kutlu, Kareem Darwish, Tamer Elsayed
On June 24, 2018, Turkey held a historical election, transforming its parliamentary system to a presidential one. One of the main questions for Turkish voters was whether to start…
Seminar Users in the Arabic Twitter Sphere
Kareem Darwish, Dimitar Alexandrov, Preslav Nakov +1
We introduce the notion of "seminar users", who are social media users engaged in propaganda in support of a political entity. We develop a framework that can identify such users w…
Trump vs. Hillary: What went Viral during the 2016 US Presidential Election
Kareem Darwish, Walid Magdy, Tahar Zanouda
In this paper, we present quantitative and qualitative analysis of the top retweeted tweets (viral tweets) pertaining to the US presidential elections from September 1, 2016 to Ele…
Trump vs. Hillary Analyzing Viral Tweets during US Presidential Elections 2016
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish
In this paper, we provide a quantitative and qualitative analyses of the viral tweets related to the US presidential election. In our study, we focus on analyzing the most retweete…
Attitudes towards Refugees in Light of the Paris Attacks
Kareem Darwish, Walid Magdy
The Paris attacks prompted a massive response on social media including Twitter. This paper explores the immediate response of English speakers on Twitter towards Middle Eastern re…
Quantifying Public Response towards Islam on Twitter after Paris Attacks
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish, Norah Abokhodair
The Paris terrorist attacks occurred on November 13, 2015 prompted a massive response on social media including Twitter, with millions of posted tweets in the first few hours after…
#FailedRevolutions: Using Twitter to Study the Antecedents of ISIS Support
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish, Ingmar Weber
Within a fairly short amount of time, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has managed to put large swaths of land in Syria and Iraq under their control. To many observers, t…
Content and Network Dynamics Behind Egyptian Political Polarization on Twitter
Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish +1
There is little doubt about whether social networks play a role in modern protests. This agreement has triggered an entire research avenue, in which social structure and content an…