Detection of topical influence in social networks via granger-causal inference

Hauffa, Jan; Wolfgang, Brau; Groh, Georg

doi:10.1145/3341161.3345024

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“…We collected a dataset consisting of more than 2.5 million Tweets posted across an 8‐year period, from 2007 to 2015, by using the Twitter's Application Program Interface (API). We gathered the Tweets using a Breadth‐First Search (BFS)‐based crawling technique (Hauffa, Koster, Hartl, Kollhofer, & Groh, ; Kwak, Lee, Park, & Moon, ; Macropol, Bogdanov, Singh, Petzold, & Yan, ; Russell, ). The technique, which is like a snowball sampling technique, starts with an initial small set of randomly chosen users.…”

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Harnessing big data for social justice: An exploration of violence against women‐related conversations on Twitter

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et al. 2019

Human Behav and Emerg Tech

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Social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat offer new means of communication, networking, and community building. Social media are mechanisms by which millions of people spread, share, and exchange information—ranging from sports and politics, to health and illness. Twitter users, in particular, also build communities on topics of interest. This paper examines Twitter content to examine the extent to which the topic of “violence against women” is posted and disseminated. We know very little about the intersection of social media and the social problem of “violence against women.” Is Twitter being used to advance advocacy efforts, seek information and assistance, and/or build communities among advocates and or victims? First, we need to know whether and to what degree Twitter contains posts on the topic of violence against women (VAW). This paper offers the first exploration into Twitter postings related to the topic of VAW. We collected 2.5 million tweets posted from 2007 through 2015. We then classified postings (referred to as “Tweets”). We compared posting on the topic of VAW to posting related to nine topics: politics, entertainment, sports, women, relationships, fashion, kids, school, and food. We found a small but actively engaged community that Tweets about VAW. Twitter users who post on the topic of VAW reply to one another in each conversation thread, but they rarely disseminate conversations through Retweeting. Our exploratory findings suggest that more might be learned from future studies that investigate the use of social media on the topic of VAW.

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confidence: 99%