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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"twitter users"”.
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Investment in and use of English: a case study of Egyptian Twitter users
… present qualitative study explores four Egyptian Twitter users’ use of English to better position themselves and express their identities on Twitter. Approximately 3000 tweets are gathered from Twitter and coded in relation to the topics they tweet about and the language they tweet in. After …
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#BlackLivesMatter: How a hashtag maintains a movement: A content analysis of the Black Lives Matter hashtag on Twitter
… engagement with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter by Twitter users. The data collection consisted of tweets shared between the time frame of July 17, 2014, to August 17, 2014. The methodology used was content analysis, which included the examination of the volume of Twitter tweets collected from this …
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TONGS: TLDR; Opinion Network Guide System
… are being generated every minute. For example, Twitter users post their current emotions in tweets, while Facebook users vent about their experience in posts. In just one minute, Twitter users upload 350,000 tweets, and Facebook users post anywhere from 2.5 million to 3 million posts. To keep up …
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Detecting and analyzing bursty events on Twitter
… in order to understand interactions between Twitter users and the role of exogenous events (not directly observable on Twitter) in driving tweets. The first stage of the system finds temporal clusters, or bursts of tweets. The second stage characterizes bursts along two dimensions, semantic …
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Analytic search methods in online social networks
… the problem of finding new accounts belonging to Twitter users whose previous accounts had been suspended for extremist activity, quantifying the performance of our optimal search policy in this application against other policies. In this application we use thousands of Twitter accounts related to …
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Online social network sensors for influenza outbreaks
… between postings on the online social network Twitter where users complain of influenza-like symptoms, and clinical data on actual influenza rates. In addition, previous research has shown that more popular individuals in a real-life social network are infected with influenza earlier than …
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Communities of Tweeple: How Communities Engage with Microblogging When Co-located
… research done on microblogging services, such as Twitter, has focused on how the individual communicates with their community at a micro and macro level; less research has been done on how the community affects the individual. We present in this thesis some ideas about this phenomenon. We do this …
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Why Did You Post That GIF? Understanding Relationship between User Identity and Self Expression through GIFs on Social Media
… GIFs they use. In this study, we explore how do Twitter users express their gender and racial identities through that of characters in gifs. We conducted a behavioral study (n=398) to simulate a series of tweeting and gif picking scenario and we found that gender and race identities have …
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Narrative Characteristics in Refugee Discourse: An Analysis of American Public Opinion on Afghan Refugee Crisis After the Taliban Takeover
… especially in the U.S. In this work, we focus on Twitter discourse regarding these events, especially potential opinion shifts over time and the effect social media posts by established U.S. legislators might have had on online public perception. To this end, we investigate two datasets on the war …
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Taking back the tech: an analysis of take back the S 2015 twitter campaign during 16 days of activism against gender violence
… study explores responses to abuse of women on Twitter, by analysing the tactics employed by the feminist network, Take Back The Tech! (TBTT) to combat online abuse through their global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign. This study employs various analytical frameworks …
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Affective attunement and counter-power affordances of Twitter to the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria
… attunement and counter-power affordances of Twitter during the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria. Drawing on qualitative data collected from Twitter during the protests, the study examined the ways in which Twitter facilitated affective attunement - the ability of Twitter users to attune to …
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Elas que narram: uma análise dos comentários no Twitter sobre a narração de mulheres no Campeonato Brasileiro de 2021
… the present research seeks to analyze how Twitter profiles manifest themselves about the participation of women in the narration of games from the Brazilian Football Championship (Brasileirão) of 2021. For this, it was necessary to divide the study into two methodological routes. First, a …
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Uses and Gratification of Sports Media Audiences
… sports is one of the most common topics for Twitter users (Kwak, Lee, Park & Moon, 2010). Thus, this thesis explores 1) sports media audiences' motivations to watch live NFL game broadcasts with others, 2) their gratifications as a consequence of the group watching, 3) their motivations to …
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A service composition platform in cloud computing using mobile devices for smart shopping
… been developed (e.g. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter). Users of these services are increasingly expecting and demanding more complex services which have more capabilities that can improve their day to day business. Users want services that are reliable, fast and easy to use. To effectively …
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From the Streets to the Tweets: Social Network Analysis of Canadian Street Gang Members and Their Use of Twitter, Facebook and Youtube
… To accomplish this goal, this study sampled 23 Twitter users and 36 Facebook users flagged as street gang members across Canada, along with 10 YouTube rap videos created by gang members. Secondly, using a network analysis add-on to Microsoft Excel called NodeXL, this essay employed social …
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Multi-level Methods for Estimating Community Language from Social Media with User and Community Sociodemographics
… outcomes from community-level language, e.g., Twitter, tended to (1) focus on keyword-driven analyses, where manually selected sets of words were examined for their ability to predict real-world outcomes (i.e., the community's use of the word "opioids" on Twitter to predict opioid poisoning …
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Decoding Identity Through Text-based Human Micro-expressions: A Novel Approach in Social Behavioral Biometrics
… Parrott’s primary emotion scores from OSN users’ writing samples posted on Twitter. The corresponding emotion-progression features are extracted using an original technique that turns users’ microblogs into emotion signals. The Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm is utilized to facilitate …
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WWF's Earth Hour Campaign: ‘Global Village' or Eco-Imperialism?
… and the power of new media to connect users across national, political and cultural borders. Environmental campaigns like WWF's Earth Hour, which touts itself as “the world's largest grassroots movement for the environment,” often adopt a utopian view of globalisation that celebrates …
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Creating and Interpreting a Cultural Landscape on Twitter to Understand People and Audiences
… a "cultural landscape" based on influential Twitter users are presented, using the network structure as well as external data about each account. We find that evidence that these influential users self-sort and audience members sort them along dimensions of identity. Race, political …
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DOIN’ IT FOR THE CULTURE: DEFINING BLACKNESS, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY ON BLACK TWITTER
… its purpose is to examine how Black Twitter users interact on Twitter through the portals of three trending hashtags from 2015: #BlackExperience, #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies, and #AskRachel. The hashtags #BlackExperience and #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies sparked conversations …
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