Frank Webb

ORCID: 0000-0003-4653-7826
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Research Areas
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Social Media in Health Education
  • Healthcare innovation and challenges
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Computational and Text Analysis Methods
  • Spam and Phishing Detection
  • Authorship Attribution and Profiling
  • Media Studies and Communication

George Mason University
2021-2023

Kent State University
2020

University of Alabama
2020

Indiana University Bloomington
2020

University of Cape Town
2020

Conference Board
2020

University of South Carolina
2018-2020

Researchers have collected Twitter data to study a wide range of topics. This growing body literature, however, has not yet been reviewed systematically synthesize Twitter-related papers. The existing literature review papers limited by constraints traditional methods manually select and analyze samples topically related goals this retrospective are identify dominant topics Twitter-based research, summarize the temporal trend topics, interpret evolution withing last ten years. mines large...

10.1109/access.2020.2983656 article EN cc-by IEEE Access 2020-01-01

ABSTRACT Although there are millions of transgender people in the world, a lack information exists about their health issues. This issue has consequences for medical field, which only nascent understanding how to identify and meet this population's health‐related needs. Social media sites like Twitter provide new opportunities overcome these barriers by sharing personal experiences. Our research employs computational framework collect tweets from self‐identified users, detect those that...

10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501023 article EN Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 2018-01-01

To combat health disinformation shared online, there is a need to identify and characterize the prevalence of topics by trolls managed individuals promote discord. The current literature limited few dominated vaccination. goal this study analyze breadth discussed left (liberal) right (conservative) Russian on Twitter. We introduce an automated framework based mixed methods including both computational qualitative techniques. Results suggest that 48 health-related topics, ranging from diet...

10.3390/ijerph18042159 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2021-02-23

Privacy needs and stigma pose significant barriers to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) people sharing information related their identities in traditional settings research methods such as surveys interviews. Fortunately, social media facilitates people’s belonging exchanging within online LGBT communities. Compared heterosexual respondents, users are also more likely have accounts on websites access daily. However, the current relevant studies not efficient or assume that any...

10.3390/electronics10151822 article EN Electronics 2021-07-29

Abstract There are millions of LGB and transgender individuals in the world. However, conducting LGBT health‐related studies labor‐intensive time‐consuming because challenges inherent studying these hidden populations. Social media sites like Twitter provide a platform for users to share their health concerns, giving researchers opportunity collect analyze social comments. This research used mixed method examine linguistic semantic characteristics tweets shared by self‐identified...

10.1002/pra2.264 article EN Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 2020-10-01

The movement of employees within an organization is a research area great relevance in variety fields such as economics, management science, and operations research, among others. In econophysics, however, only few initial incursions have been made into this problem. paper, based on approach inspired by the concept labor flow networks which capture workers firms entire national economies, we construct empirically calibrated high-resolution internal markets with nodes links defined basis...

10.3390/e25050784 article EN cc-by Entropy 2023-05-11
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