Interchange – Social Media and the Egyptian Revolution: Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

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Host Dave Stewart welcomes Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, an Egyptian double-Doctorate student whose research is in Web Mining Content and Analysis and Computational Linguistics.  From a beginning analysis of how Twitter and Social Networking was and is an integral component of being connected with current events, we segue into how the Internet and journalism have evolved, and how “sentiment analysis” helps contextualize the emerging information flow in our world today.