Triggering Backlash

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Pan

This chapter captures the backlash—increased protests and lower legitimacy—triggered by prioritizing Dibao for targeted populations. The survey of 100 neighborhoods shows that when targeted populations receive Dibao benefits, there is greater contention over Dibao distribution in the neighborhood. Those who are turned away from benefits are more likely to protest and bargain for Dibao. Using large-scale social media data and deep learning to extract unique, off-line collective action events, this chapter shows that welfare-related protests are higher among cities that have a higher level of Dibao provision to targeted populations than cities that have lower levels. Although local administrators are adept at defusing protests, and collective action remains small and localized, people are left resentful and embittered. Data from a nationally representative survey shows that cities with a higher level of Dibao provision to targeted populations have lower assessment of government capabilities, especially in welfare provision and public responsiveness, as well as lower levels of political trust and satisfaction.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjun Magge ◽  
Elena Tutubalina ◽  
Zulfat Miftahutdinov ◽  
Ilseyar Alimova ◽  
Anne Dirkson ◽  
...  

Objective: Research on pharmacovigilance from social media data has focused on mining adverse drug effects (ADEs) using annotated datasets, with publications generally focusing on one of three tasks: (i) ADE classification, (ii) named entity recognition (NER) for identifying the span of an ADE mentions, and (iii) ADE mention normalization to standardized vocabularies. While the common goal of such systems is to detect ADE signals that can be used to inform public policy, it has been impeded largely by limited end-to-end solutions to the three tasks for large-scale analysis of social media reports for different drugs. Materials and Methods: We present a dataset for training and evaluation of ADE pipelines where the ADE distribution is closer to the average `natural balance' with ADEs present in about 7% of the Tweets. The deep learning architecture involves an ADE extraction pipeline with individual components for all three tasks. Results: The system presented achieved a classification performance of F1 = 0.63, span detection performance of F1 = 0.44 and an end-to-end entity resolution performance of F1 = 0.34 on the presented dataset. Discussion: The performance of the models continue to highlight multiple challenges when deploying pharmacovigilance systems that use social media data. We discuss the implications of such models in the downstream tasks of signal detection and suggest future enhancements. Conclusion: Mining ADEs from Twitter posts using a pipeline architecture requires the different components to be trained and tuned based on input data imbalance in order to ensure optimal performance on the end-to-end resolution task.


IEEE Access ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 114851-114861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiguang Zhou ◽  
Xinlong Zhang ◽  
Xiaoyun Zhou ◽  
Yuhua Liu

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 633-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Pasek ◽  
Colleen A. McClain ◽  
Frank Newport ◽  
Stephanie Marken

Researchers hoping to make inferences about social phenomena using social media data need to answer two critical questions: What is it that a given social media metric tells us? And who does it tell us about? Drawing from prior work on these questions, we examine whether Twitter sentiment about Barack Obama tells us about Americans’ attitudes toward the president, the attitudes of particular subsets of individuals, or something else entirely. Specifically, using large-scale survey data, this study assesses how patterns of approval among population subgroups compare to tweets about the president. The findings paint a complex picture of the utility of digital traces. Although attention to subgroups improves the extent to which survey and Twitter data can yield similar conclusions, the results also indicate that sentiment surrounding tweets about the president is no proxy for presidential approval. Instead, after adjusting for demographics, these two metrics tell similar macroscale, long-term stories about presidential approval but very different stories at a more granular level and over shorter time periods.


Author(s):  
Suppawong Tuarob ◽  
Conrad S. Tucker

The authors of this work propose a Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) model for predicting product market adoption and longevity using large scale, social media data. Social media data, available through sites such as Twitter® and Facebook®, have been shown to be leading indicators and predictors of events ranging from influenza spread, financial stock market prices, and movie revenues. Being ubiquitous and colloquial in nature allows users to honestly express their opinions in a unified, dynamic manner. This makes social media a relatively new data gathering source that can potentially appeal to designers and enterprise decision makers aiming to understand consumers response to their upcoming/newly launched products. Existing design methodologies for leveraging large scale data have traditionally relied on product reviews available on the internet to mine product information. However, such web reviews often come from disparate sources, making the aggregation and knowledge discovery process quite cumbersome, especially reviews for poorly received products. Furthermore, such web reviews have not been shown to be strong indicators of new product market adoption. In this paper, the authors demonstrate how social media can be used to predict and mine information relating to product features, product competition and market adoption. In particular, the authors analyze the sentiment in tweets and use the results to predict product sales. The authors present a mathematical model that can quantify the correlations between social media sentiment and product market adoption in an effort to compute the ability to stay in the market of individual products. The proposed technique involves computing the Subjectivity, Polarity, and Favorability of the product. Finally, the authors utilize Information Retrieval techniques to mine users’ opinions about strong, weak, and controversial features of a given product model. The authors evaluate their approaches using the real-world smartphone data, which are obtained from www.statista.com and www.gsmarena.com.


Author(s):  
Xiaomo Liu ◽  
Armineh Nourbakhsh ◽  
Quanzhi Li ◽  
Sameena Shah ◽  
Robert Martin ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 376 ◽  
pp. 244-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiguang Zhou ◽  
Xinlong Zhang ◽  
Zhiyong Guo ◽  
Yuhua Liu

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suppawong Tuarob ◽  
Conrad S. Tucker

Lead users play a vital role in next generation product development, as they help designers discover relevant product feature preferences months or even years before they are desired by the general customer base. Existing design methodologies proposed to extract lead user preferences are typically constrained by temporal, geographic, size, and heterogeneity limitations. To mitigate these challenges, the authors of this work propose a set of mathematical models that mine social media networks for lead users and the product features that they express relating to specific products. The authors hypothesize that: (i) lead users are discoverable from large scale social media networks and (ii) product feature preferences, mined from lead user social media data, represent product features that do not currently exist in product offerings but will be desired in future product launches. An automated approach to lead user product feature identification is proposed to identify latent features (product features unknown to the public) from social media data. These latent features then serve as the key to discovering innovative users from the ever increasing pool of social media users. The authors collect 2.1 × 109 social media messages in the United States during a period of 31 months (from March 2011 to September 2013) in order to determine whether lead user preferences are discoverable and relevant to next generation cell phone designs.


2022 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0

Social media data become an integral part in the business data and should be integrated into the decisional process for better decision making based on information which reflects better the true situation of business in any field. However, social media data are unstructured and generated in very high frequency which exceeds the capacity of the data warehouse. In this work, we propose to extend the data warehousing process with a staging area which heart is a large scale system implementing an information extraction process using Storm and Hadoop frameworks to better manage their volume and frequency. Concerning structured information extraction, mainly events, we combine a set of techniques from NLP, linguistic rules and machine learning to succeed the task. Finally, we propose the adequate data warehouse conceptual model for events modeling and integration with enterprise data warehouse using an intermediate table called Bridge table. For application and experiments, we focus on drug abuse events extraction from Twitter data and their modeling into the Event Data Warehouse.


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