Blog Post #1: Graph theory in social media analysis
Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041620301182.
This article above discusses the usage of graph theory on social media images and hashtags to assess relationships across the internet. More specifically, the study analyzed the usage of hashtags on photos and the content of the photos to identify the value of relationships on platforms such as Instagram and Twitter. This relates to content in the class because the study created a graph with the vertices being hashtags and the edges being the connection between hashtags (hashtag frequency used together in posts). This is similar to how we utilized graphs to represent vertices and their relationships in class.