scholarly journals Characterizing English Variation across Social Media Communities with BERT

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 538-556
Author(s):  
Li Lucy ◽  
David Bamman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Language Variation ◽  
Dense Networks ◽  
Community Behavior ◽  
Unique Word ◽  
The Senses

Abstract Much previous work characterizing language variation across Internet social groups has focused on the types of words used by these groups. We extend this type of study by employing BERT to characterize variation in the senses of words as well, analyzing two months of English comments in 474 Reddit communities. The specificity of different sense clusters to a community, combined with the specificity of a community’s unique word types, is used to identify cases where a social group’s language deviates from the norm. We validate our metrics using user-created glossaries and draw on sociolinguistic theories to connect language variation with trends in community behavior. We find that communities with highly distinctive language are medium-sized, and their loyal and highly engaged users interact in dense networks.

Gossip as a Social Skill

2019 ◽  
pp. 171-192
Author(s):  
Francis T. McAndrew
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Skill ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Evolutionary Adaptation ◽  
Important Phenomenon ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Competent Person

Gossip is a more complicated and socially important phenomenon than most people think, and campaigns to stamp out gossip in workplaces and other social settings overlook the fact that gossip is part of human nature and an essential part of what makes social groups function as well as they do. This chapter takes the position that gossip is an evolutionary adaptation and that it is the primary tool for monitoring and managing the reputation of individuals in society. An interest in the affairs of other people is a necessary component of being a socially competent person, and the chapter explores the multi-dimensional nature of gossip-related social skills. It pays special attention to “gossip as a social skill,” rather than as a character flaw, and presents insights into related phenomena such as how people use social media such as Facebook.

Language Impoliteness among Indonesians on Twitter

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 161-176
Author(s):  
Miftahulkhairah Anwar ◽  
◽  
Fachrur Razi Amir ◽  
Herlina Herlina ◽  
Novi Anoegrajekti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
News Production ◽  
Production Platform ◽  
Technology Changes ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Stimulation Of

The presence of technology changes the way humans communicate in cyberspace compared to the real world. “Hootsuite We are social” research in January 2019 showed that there are approximately 150 million social media users in Indonesia or 56% of the total population. There has been an increase of 20 million social media users in Indonesia compared to last year. The extensive use of social media, including Twitter, is changing the news production platform. News is not only produced by mass media, but potentially by everyone who can produce reports, shape public opinion, and create a virtual society. This condition has a destructive power because it can quickly spread and provoke powerful emotions and heated discourse. This paper discusses the characteristics of Indonesian language impoliteness on Twitter using qualitative research methods. The data were collected from Twitter statuses of Indonesian users in 2018. The analysis showed that impoliteness in speech and language occurs because of the ideology and power of each speaker. The impolite speech in this research related to the impoliteness nuanced with contempt to ethnicity, religion, race, and to a social group. The impoliteness nuanced with insult to ethnicity was 20% of our observed samples, while impoliteness nuanced with religious contempt was 25.1%; impoliteness related to race was 18.3%; and impoliteness toward social groups was 36.6%. The impoliteness is also often caused by the stimulation of the occurring social and political causes at that time. Keywords: Impoliteness, contempt of ethnicity, religion, race, social groups.

Connecting Real and Virtual Neighbors

2014 ◽  
pp. 824-838
Author(s):  
Robin Blom ◽  
Jonathan S. Morgan ◽  
Paul Zube ◽  
Brian J. Bowe
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Neighborhood Revitalization ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Positive Feelings

Unlike most of the literature surveying the proliferation and increased usage of social media in society at large, this study analyzes the potential of blogs to mobilize local communities. It focuses on blogging in the context of a geographic locality and describes a participatory action research project in inner city Detroit built around the “Going Home” blog hosted by The Detroit News. The results of the project demonstrate that blogging can be used as a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization. United by positive feelings towards the neighborhood, geographically separated social groups of current and former residents connected online, shared sentiments and information, and combined their efforts to bring about positive social change in the physical community.

On the Privacy and Utility of Anonymized Social Networks

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Song ◽  
Xuesong Lu ◽  
Sadegh Nobari ◽  
Stéphane Bressan ◽  
Panagiotis Karras
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Do So

One is either on Facebook or not. Of course, this assessment is controversial and its rationale arguable. It is nevertheless not far, for many, from the reason behind joining social media and publishing and sharing details of their professional and private lives. Not only the personal details that may be revealed, but also the structure of the networks are sources of invaluable information for any organization wanting to understand and learn about social groups, their dynamics and members. These organizations may or may not be benevolent. It is important to devise, design and evaluate solutions that guarantee some privacy. One approach that reconciles the different stakeholders’ requirement is the publication of a modified graph. The perturbation is hoped to be sufficient to protect members’ privacy while it maintains sufficient utility for analysts wanting to study the social media as a whole. In this paper, the authors try to empirically quantify the inevitable trade-off between utility and privacy. They do so for two state-of-the-art graph anonymization algorithms that protect against most structural attacks, the k-automorphism algorithm and the k-degree anonymity algorithm. The authors measure several metrics for a series of real graphs from various social media before and after their anonymization under various settings.

scholarly journals Stereotypes, emotions, and behaviours in intergroup context in Portugal

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Teresa Nascimento ◽  
Mauro Bianchi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
Selection Of

Stereotype content has been much studied since the classic study by Katz and Braly (1933). The results obtained in these studies have been fundamental to building more complex experiments in order to explore the formation, purpose and maintenance of stereotypes. In Portugal, to our knowledge, the existing studies are quite scarce, and in some cases non-existent, particularly related to some social groups of interest. Furthermore, continuous social changes may bring variation in the meaning and importance of each attribute. The goal of this study is to explore and pre-test the stereotype content of 12 social groups in Portugal. Ninety-eight participants recruited online via social media responded to 35 stereotypic traits and their valence, 21 emotions and 12 behavioural tendencies related to these social groups. The results allow not only the selection of, for each group, the stereotypic traits, emotions, and behavioural tendencies that are significantly different from the midpoint of the scale, but also the identification of traits, emotions and behavioural tendencies that best seem to differentiate the different groups.

scholarly journals Advertising in Communication of the Catholic Church. The Case of Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3(27)) ◽  
pp. 409-425
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Stępniak
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Persuasive Communication ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

Religious advertising as a kind of religious persuasive communication based on the element of the sacred is a Polish phenomenon. The article presents studies on religious advertising, its definition and typology and reception by select social groups. This kind of advertising confirms not only Hjelm’s concept of the visibility of religion, as it exists in both the media and public sphere, but also David Herbert’s concept of republicisation. In a country without a clear division between State and the Church, despite a well-researched decline in traditional religiosity, religion is visible in social media and facilitates development of human relationships, both online and offline. Commercial media, including the Catholic ones, seem to be perfectly subjugated to the logic of media, which supports Stig Hjarvard’s process of mediatization of religion.

scholarly journals The COVID States Project #60: COVID-19 vaccine misinformation: From uncertainty to resistance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Ognyanova ◽  
David Lazer ◽  
Matthew Baum ◽  
James Druckman ◽  
Jon Green ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Vaccination Rates ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Social Media Platforms

In mid-July 2021, President Biden emphatically claimed that social media platforms were “killing people” by facilitating the spread of vaccine misinformation. Not long after, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell similarly declared that misinformation was to be blamed for the low vaccination rates of Americans.The public debate that followed brought to the forefront a series of important questions. How prevalent is the public’s belief in vaccine misinformation? Is that belief associated with vaccine resistance? Are some social groups more susceptible to it than others? Are social media companies responsible for the higher levels of vaccine resistance among some of their users?This report focuses on the first three questions, exploring misinformation beliefs across social groups and their connection with vaccine attitudes. We address the last question in our previous report and in a post published by the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog.

scholarly journals REGISTER APPLICATION ON INSTAGRAM: BEAUTY PRODUCT

LINGUISTICA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 453
Author(s):  
LEYLA CHRISTY SINAGA ◽  
IMMANUEL PRASETYA GINTINGS ◽  
JULI RACHMADANI HASIBUAN
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Language Variation ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Linguistic Form ◽  
Media Platform

In the era of globalization, seller-buyer transactions happened a lot on Instagram's social media platform. A register is a language variation that is usually used in the seller-buyer transaction. This study aimed to analyze the register in Instagram used in a beauty product by examining the linguistic form that is viewed from the register variable situation and understanding the meaning of register in a beauty product. This research uses qualitative research by collecting the data, analyzing the data, analyzing the context, and identifying the data. The object of this research is an Instagram account by guardian_id that was taken in February-March 2020. Based on the analysis, the researcher found 20 data with two types of linguistic form, the unstable situation of register that is field, tenor, mode, and two types of meaning in the register.

Opportunities and Threats Analysis Caused by Social Media

2022 ◽  
pp. 46-64
Author(s):  
Elina Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Electronic Learning ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Diverse Cultures

With the advent and widespread use of information and communication technologies, the need for information has become part of the daily work of individuals. Recently, social networks are one of the most important topics in cyberspace. This study seeks to identify and rank the opportunities and threats of social media for the society. Three hundred seventy students active in social networks are selected by clustering sampling method. A conceptual model is developed based on the review of theoretical literature and five opportunities of social network including electronic learning, filling leisure time, organizing social groups, getting to know about diverse cultures, possibility of conversation, as well as five threats include sharing anti values, abusing, dissemination of misinformation, internet addiction, and malacious communication have significant effect on the students.

Archive Everything

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Giannachi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

This book traces the evolution of the archive across the centuries by looking at primitive, Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian and contemporary archives. Crucially, the book evidences the fluidity and potential inter-changeability between libraries, archives and museums. A number of case studies offer an insight into the operation of a variety of different types of archives, including cabinets of curiosity, archival artforms, architectures, performances, road-shows, time capsules, social media documentation practices, databases, and a variety of museological web-based heritage platforms. The archive is shown to play a crucial role in how individuals and social groups administer themselves through and within a burgeoning social memory apparatus. This is why at the heart of every industrial revolution thus far, the archive continues to contribute to the way we store, preserve and generate knowledge through an accumulation of documents, artifacts, objects, as well as ephemera and even debris. The archive has always been strategic for different types of economies, including the digital economy and the internet of things. Shown here to increasingly affect to the way we map, produce, and share knowledge, the apparatus of the archive, which allows us to continuously renew who we are in relation to the past, so that new futures may become possible, now effectively pervades almost every aspect of our lives.

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