التحليل المرئي لبيانات منصات التواصل الاجتماعي كمصدر مفتوح للمعلومات في التعامل مع أزمة اللاجئين : دراسة تحليلية باستخدام برنامج (Nodexl) = Visual Analysis of Social Media Platforms Data as an Open Source of Information in Addressing Refugee Crisis : An Analytical Study Using Nodexl

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (114) ◽  
pp. 19-75
Author(s):  
عبد الرزاق ، محمد سيف الدين
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Source Of Information

scholarly journals Intermittent brain network reconfigurations and the resistance to social media influence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Italo Ivo Lima Dias Pinto ◽  
Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana ◽  
Kristen Flaherty ◽  
Aditi Periyannan ◽  
Amir Meghdadi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Brain Networks ◽  
Brain Network ◽  
Opinion Formation ◽  
Opinion Change ◽  
Neural Processes ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Source Of Information

Since their development, social media has grown as a source of information and has a significant impact on opinion formation. Individuals interact with others and content via social media platforms in a variety of ways but it remains unclear how decision making and associated neural processes are impacted by the online sharing of informational content, from factual to fabricated. Here, we use EEG to estimate dynamic reconfigurations of brain networks and probe the neural changes underlying opinion change (or formation) within individuals interacting with a simulated social media platform. Our findings indicate that the individuals who show more malleable opinions are characterized by less frequent network reconfigurations while those with more rigid opinions tend to have more flexible brain networks with frequent reconfigurations. The nature of these frequent network configurations suggests a fundamentally different thought process between the individuals who are more easily influenced by social media and those who are not. We also show that these reconfigurations are distinct to the brain dynamics during an in-person discussion with strangers on the same content. Together, these findings suggest that network reconfigurations in the brain may not only be diagnostic to the informational context but also the underlie opinion formation.

scholarly journals Health-protective behaviour, social media usage and conspiracy belief during the COVID-19 public health emergency

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Allington ◽  
Bobby Duffy ◽  
Simon Wessely ◽  
Nayana Dhavan ◽  
James Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Conspiracy Beliefs ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Protective Behaviours

Abstract Background Social media platforms have long been recognised as major disseminators of health misinformation. Many previous studies have found a negative association between health-protective behaviours and belief in the specific form of misinformation popularly known as ‘conspiracy theory’. Concerns have arisen regarding the spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories on social media. Methods Three questionnaire surveys of social media use, conspiracy beliefs and health-protective behaviours with regard to COVID-19 among UK residents were carried out online, one using a self-selecting sample (N = 949) and two using stratified random samples from a recruited panel (N = 2250, N = 2254). Results All three studies found a negative relationship between COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and COVID-19 health-protective behaviours, and a positive relationship between COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and use of social media as a source of information about COVID-19. Studies 2 and 3 also found a negative relationship between COVID-19 health-protective behaviours and use of social media as a source of information, and Study 3 found a positive relationship between health-protective behaviours and use of broadcast media as a source of information. Conclusions When used as an information source, unregulated social media may present a health risk that is partly but not wholly reducible to their role as disseminators of health-related conspiracy beliefs.

Tracking the imagined audience: A case study on Nike’s use of Twitter for B2C interaction

First Monday ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacky Au Duong ◽  
Frauke Zeller
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Business To Consumer ◽  
Source Of Information

Social media platforms have become the new centre of attention in business-to-consumer (B2C) communication. These interactions provide a rich source of information for businesses in terms of their customers’ preferences, backgrounds and behaviour. We introduce a multi-disciplinary theoretical and methodological framework based on studies in marketing, communication and computer-mediated communication, which aims to inform marketing professionals and academic researchers on how social media can facilitate B2C engagement.

scholarly journals Exploring the disparity of influence between users in the discussion of Brexit on Twitter

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amirarsalan Rajabi ◽  
Alexander V. Mantzaris ◽  
Kuldip Singh Atwal ◽  
Ivan Garibay
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
European Union ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Good Source ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Source Of Information

AbstractThe topic of political polarization has received increased attention for valid reasons. Given that an increased amount of the social exchange for opinions happens online, social media platforms provide a good source of information to investigate various aspects of the phenomena. In this work, data collected from Twitter are used to examine polarization surrounding the topic of the Brexit referendum on the membership of the European Union. The analysis specifically focuses on the question of how different tiers of users in terms of influence can project their opinions and if the polarized conditions affect the relative balance in the broadcast capabilities of the tiers. The results show that during polarization periods, users of the higher tier have increased capabilities to broadcast their information in relation to the lower tiers thereby further dominating the discussion. This validates previous modeling investigations and the hypothesis that polarization provides an opportunity for influencers to increase their relative social capital.

scholarly journals The role of social media in delivering news related to the COVID-19 pandemic: Moroccan community as a case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 119 ◽  
pp. 07007
Author(s):  
Nezha Mejjad ◽  
Hanane Yaagoubi ◽  
Mourad Gourmaj ◽  
Aniss Moumen ◽  
Nabil Chakhchaoui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
Shared Information ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Source Of Information

The study aims to assess the Moroccan community’s using rate of social media, especially during the imposed lockdown, and analyze how the community is using and exploring the news published on Facebook. In this order, we prepared and shared a survey questionnaire among Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp users. The obtained responses exhibit that only 5% of respondents share the news immediately without verifying the source, while 54 % share news only after verifying the source; the rest did not prefer to share COVID-19 related news. This may reflect the awareness level of the sampled population about the importance of verifying the source of information before sharing it, especially during such conditions. However, 64% of participants think that Social Media platforms are not sufficient and appropriate to warn and inform the population about this sanitary crisis as not all Moroccan citizens have access to the internet and do not use social media. Besides, the COVID-19 period has known a rapid spread of misinformation and fake news through these platforms, impacting community mental health. Although, it is recommended to consider warning people about the best practices and use of shared information through these platforms

scholarly journals Understanding Social Media’s Role in Propagating Falsehood in Conflict Situations: Case of the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Kingsley Lyonga Ngange ◽  
Moki Stephen Mokondo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Computer Software ◽  
Information Graphics ◽  
Alternative Source ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
Source Of Information

Social media have been welcomed as important tools that contribute to satisfying the daily information needs of citizens in today’s global society. To many, they serve as an open and alternative source of information especially where the conventional media fail to play their role of serving the public’s interest first. Notwithstanding, there have been serious and legitimate concerns about the spread of fake news over social media especially during the 2016 US presidential elections (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017). This coincided with the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis (CAC) in which the Cameroon government blamed social media users for spreading false information about the crisis to the extent that government shut down the Internet in the two affected Anglophone regions of the country for 93 days in 2017. This article therefore, examines the content of information (graphics, audios, videos, texts) posted on two widely used social media platforms (WhatsApp and Facebook) during the Anglophone Crisis, in order to understand how falsehood is propagated especially during crisis situations. A qualitative approach to analyse data of falsehood during the crisis was used and three major ways were identified through which falsehood was propagated. Principally, social media activists used computer software to distort pictures and superimpose content that depict the messages they wanted to pass across. They also spread rumours using texts, audio clips and distorted videos. The conclusion is that social media have been awash with falsehood in the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis. The major recommendation therefore, is that users of social media should make efforts to verify the authenticity of information obtained from such media before consuming and disseminating to others. The December 2014 Law on Terrorism in Cameroon treats such offences seriously and defaulters are severely punished with heavy jail sentences and fines.

Tik Tok the New Alternative Media for Youngsters for Online Sharing of Talent: An Analytical Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
Keshav Patel ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Version ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Tik Tok, the new wave of social media which has introduced a new sub culture for the present generation and has brought a revolution in the social media for youngsters. Tik Tok has become a new platform for portrayal of talent for youngsters adding new meaning to already existing social media platforms. It is the fastest growing social media which has fascinated and engrossed so many youngsters across the globe and is one of the fastest growing in India. Tik Tok is basically the new alternative version of online sharing, that allows its users its interface for preparing short videos and music pieces. Tik Tok is the new obsession among youngsters which is giving them a platform to express them innovatively and ingeniously. The present paper is based on case study of individuals who used Tik Tok to highlight their talent.

Conducting Semantic-Based Network Analyses from Social Media Data

2015 ◽  
pp. 369-427
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Free Information ◽  
Keyword Searches ◽  
Media Data

Network analysis is widely used to mine social media. This involves both the study of structural metadata (information about information) and the related contents (the textual messaging, the related imagery, videos, URLs, and others). A semantic-based network analysis relies on the analysis of relationships between words and phrases (as meaningful concepts), and this approach may be applied effectively to social media data to extract insights. To gain a sense of how this might work, a trending topic of the day was chosen (namely, the free-information and data leakage movement) to see what might be illuminated using this semantic-based network analysis, an open-source technology, NodeXL, and access to multiple social media platforms. Three types of networks are extracted: (1) conversations (#hashtag microblogging networks on Twitter; #eventgraphs on Twitter; and keyword searches on Twitter; (2) contents (video networks on YouTube, related tags networks on Flickr, and article networks on Wikipedia; and (3) user accounts on Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Wikipedia.

Disappearing acts: Content moderation and emergent practices to preserve at-risk human rights–related content

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482091272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Veronica Banchik
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Organizational Resources ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Depth Interviews

Human rights groups, journalists, and “open source investigators” increasingly depend on social media platforms to collect eyewitness media documenting possible human rights violations and conflicts. And yet, this content—often graphic, controversial, even uploaded by perpetrators—is often removed by the platforms, for various reasons. This article draws on in-depth interviews to examine how practitioners reliant on human rights–related content understand, experience, and deal with platform content moderation and removals in their day-to-day work. Interviews highlighted that both the actual and anticipated removal of social media content complicated and added to practitioners’ work. In addition, practitioners unevenly possess the technical, financial, and organizational resources to mitigate the risks and ramifications of removal by preserving content and appealing content moderation decisions. This article sheds light on the impacts of content moderation for stakeholders other than the primary account holders, and highlights platforms’ affordances and shortcomings as archives of war.

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