Is it really about me?

Нааман, Мор; Boase, Jeffrey; Lai, Chih‐Hui

doi:10.1145/1718918.1718953

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“…Online social networking environments present a tremendous scientific opportunity: they generate largescale data about the communication patterns and preferences of hundreds of millions of individuals [1], which can be analyzed to form sophisticated models of individual and group behavior [2,3]. However, some researchers have questioned the validity of such data, pointing out that social media content is largely focused on entertainment and emotional expression [4,5], potentially rendering it a poor measure of the behaviors and outcomes typically of interest to social scientists.…”

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More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior

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Is social media a valid indicator of political behavior? There is considerable debate about the validity of data extracted from social media for studying offline behavior. To address this issue, we show that there is a statistically significant association between tweets that mention a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives and his or her subsequent electoral performance. We demonstrate this result with an analysis of 542,969 tweets mentioning candidates selected from a random sample of 3,570,054,618, as well as Federal Election Commission data from 795 competitive races in the 2010 and 2012 U.S. congressional elections. This finding persists even when controlling for incumbency, district partisanship, media coverage of the race, time, and demographic variables such as the district's racial and gender composition. Our findings show that reliable data about political behavior can be extracted from social media.

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“…The rest reported the latest news or commented on current events. Naaman et al confirmed that a large amount of content that Twitter users shared focused on themselves (Naaman, Boase, & Lai, 2010). They explained that these self-focused messages helped maintain relationships with their friends by enhancing the authors' presence.…”

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Rethinking civic computing in China

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Nardi

2016

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Civic computing research is concerned with the relationship of digital technologies to civic participation. We discuss Foucault’s work on the care of the self which considers how a person seeks a certain mode of being such as happiness, perfection, or wisdom. We describe our qualitative study of Chinese mainland citizens who used technologies to understand and participate in political events, in particular the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement. We examine how care of the self offers an alternative, critical perspective for rethinking civic participation and civic computing.

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“…We particularly have chosen only individual Twitter users by excluding spammers, bots, marketers, organizations, and companies. Additionally, in order to eliminate dead and inactive accounts, only users who had at least 10 friends, 10 followers, had tweeted in 7 days, and had posted at least 500 messages were included in the study 3 . The male/female ratio was 50:50, and whether the user is male or female was determined by user name, profile information, and profile pictures.…”

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“…To analyze the content of tweets, the last 20 tweets of each user were retrieved and coded, except for direct replies (tweets that address another specific user with "@username"). Overall, a total 4000 tweets were obtained, which were then coded into 7 categories, 2 sub-categories, and 5 genres derived from Naaman et al 3 . A single bilingual Japanese coder coded the tweets during the 4th week of November and the 1st week of December 2011.…”

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“…Microblogs allow users to share and exchange real-world information 2 publicly or semi-publicly 3 , which perhaps explains the popularity of these platforms. As of April 2011, Twitter, the largest microblogging site, had about 300 million users worldwide 4 and has been regarded as one of the top 3 social networks alongside Facebook and LinkedIn 5 .…”

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Culture and Social Media Usage: Analysis of Japanese Twitter Users

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2013

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Twitter, one of the most popular microblogging tools, has been used extensively all around the world. However, up to date, no study has addressed how culture influences the use of this communication platform. In order to close the literature gap and promote cross-cultural understandings, this paper content analyzed 4,000 tweets from 200 college students in Japan and the USA. The results showed that Japanese college students post more self-related messages and ask fewer questions compared to American college students. It was also found that tweets that refer to TV are more common in Japan, whereas sports and news tweets stand out in the USA. The evidence from this study suggests that there is a subtle and complicated relationship between culture and Twitter use.

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Is it really about me?

Cited by 486 publications

References 6 publications

More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior

More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior

Rethinking civic computing in China

Culture and Social Media Usage: Analysis of Japanese Twitter Users

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