  This survey draws a broad-stroke, panoramic picture of the State of the Art
(SoTA) of the research in generative methods for the analysis of social media
data. It fills a void, as the existing survey articles are either much narrower
in their scope or are dated. We included two important aspects that currently
gain importance in mining and modeling social media: dynamics and networks.
Social dynamics are important for understanding the spreading of influence or
diseases, formation of friendships, the productivity of teams, etc. Networks,
on the other hand, may capture various complex relationships providing
additional insight and identifying important patterns that would otherwise go
unnoticed.
