Richard Cruz¹, Johnson Kinyua^1,*, Charles Mutigwe²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 3405-3423, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.035906 - 15 March 2023

Abstract The massive increase in the volume of data generated by individuals on social media microblog platforms such as Twitter and Reddit every day offers researchers unique opportunities to analyze financial markets from new perspectives. The meme stock mania of 2021 brought together stock traders and investors that were also active on social media. This mania was in good part driven by retail investors’ discussions on investment strategies that occurred on social media platforms such as Reddit during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The stock trades by these retail investors were then executed using services like Robinhood. In… More >

Huma¹, Muhammad Khalid Sohail², Nadeem Akhtar³, Dost Muhammad³, Humaira Afzal⁴, Muhammad Rafiq Mufti⁵, Shahid Hussain^6,*, Mansoor Ahmed¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.3, pp. 3737-3748, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014398 - 01 March 2021

Abstract This study aims to identify the potential association of mental health and social media forum during the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 brings a lot of challenges to government globally. Among the different strategies the most extensively adopted ones were lockdown, social distancing, and isolation among others. Most people with no mental illness history have been found with high risk of distress and psychological discomfort due to anxiety of being infected with the virus. Panic among people due to COVID-19 spread faster than the disease itself. The misinformation and excessive usage of social media in… More >