Within an ongoing research project by the chair of e-Finance at University of Frankfurt, first results show that BrandON Media data can be helpful to explain financial variables such as stock returns. Focusing on a large sample of more than 300,000 company-related messages posted in social media such as Facebook as well as news published on classic web portals, the sentiment expressed within these sources is related to the consequent capital market reaction. In addition, a unique measure determined by BrandON Media – News Popularity – is taken into account. News Popularity measures how trendy a specific news story is and thus resembles the possibility that investors notice a particular news item.
Read moreNew Dimension of Politics - Political Radar (Radar Polityczny)
Web 2.0 has created ample opportunities for citizens to participate in politics. The average citizen no longer just passively receives content sent to him by the media and politicians, but willingly enters with them and other receivers into a virtual dialogue. Social media has become an integral part of the communication repertoire of politics, and the tools created for its continuous monitoring open up new research perspectives. Establishing the cooperation between BrandON Media and Department of Political Sociology in the Institute of Political Science of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (CSWU) is to conduct a series of research on the basis of which there will be developed the Political Radar for monitoring and analysis of all actions performed by politicians and their reception in Social Media.
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