Twitter and the Irish language, #Gaeilge – agents and activities: exploring a data set with micro-implementers in social media

Mhichíl, Mairéad Nic Giolla; Lynn, Theo; Rosati, Pierangelo

doi:10.1080/01434632.2018.1450414

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“…The presence of these social actors in #TrasnanadTonnta also contributed to achieving the aims of the campaign by promoting the language in a global context and lending it legitimacy. Although Nic Giolla Mhichíl et al (2018) found that “micro-implementers” drive Irish-language activity in the Twittersphere, our analysis highlights the impact of communications at a macro-level on transnational campaign success.…”

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Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns for Gaeilge

McMonagle

Bhroin

2023

Social Media + Society

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Research increasingly shows how speakers and learners of minority languages exploit online spaces to forge communication networks and create and consume content in languages that are otherwise marginalized from central societal domains. While the connectivity afforded by internet technologies is imperative to computer-mediated communication, culturally authentic content and expressions of identity are central to meaning-making processes that may influence online participation (or not) in a particular language. We examine participation in two Twitter campaigns for the Irish language—both conceived to increase the visibility of Irish online but with drastically different outcomes. Using the Twitter interface to conduct a content analysis of tweets bearing the respective campaign hashtags, we reveal the discretionary approach to online engagement exhibited by minority-language users and explicate some of the social and communicative practices that contributed to the success of one campaign over the other, bolstered by a comprehensive campaign infrastructure and semantically enticing features.

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Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns for Gaeilge

McMonagle

Bhroin

2023

Social Media + Society

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“…In addition to demonstrating how social media analysis tools can be developed by employing the CymrIE processing resources, TwitterCymrIE itself can provide a platform for applications analysing Welsh Twitter data, such as different forms of sentiment and opinion analysis, as well as study of language use in this medium (see for example, McMonagle, et al, 2018;Nic Giolla Mhichíl, et al, 2018).…”

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Natural language processing for under-resourced languages: Developing a Welsh natural language toolkit

Cunliffe

Vlachidis

Williams

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Computer Speech & Language

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“…An investigation about Welsh (Cymraeg) speakers and Twitter, shows that speakers of this language are also active in social media (Jones et al, 2013). Additionally, there is another work that extracts and analyzes more than 80k tweets in Irish (Gaeilge) to do content, sentiment and network analysis (Mhichíl et al, 2018). It is also interesting a study combining Welsh, Irish and Frisian (Frysk) to investigate the use of hashtags across 3,000 different tweets (McMonagle et al, 2019).…”

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Social analysis of young Basque-speaking communities in twitter

Landa

Agerri

2021

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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In this paper we take into account both social and linguistic aspects to perform demographic analysis by processing a large amount of tweets in Basque language. The study of demographic characteristics and social relationships are approached by applying machine learning and modern deep-learning Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, combining social sciences with automatic text processing. More specifically, our main objective is to combine demographic inference and social analysis in order to detect young Basque Twitter users and to identify the communities that arise from their relationships or shared content. This social and demographic analysis will be entirely based on the automatically collected tweets using NLP to convert unstructured textual information into interpretable knowledge.

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Twitter and the Irish language, #Gaeilge – agents and activities: exploring a data set with micro-implementers in social media

Cited by 6 publications

References 25 publications

Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns for Gaeilge

Across the Cyberwaves: Twitter Campaigns for Gaeilge

Natural language processing for under-resourced languages: Developing a Welsh natural language toolkit

Social analysis of young Basque-speaking communities in twitter

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