A multi-methods design to understand the #longCOVID and #longhaulers conversation on Twitter (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Santarossa ◽  
Ashley Rapp ◽  
Saily Sardinas ◽  
Janine Hussein ◽  
Alex Ramirez ◽  
...  

BACKGROUND The scientific community is just beginning to uncover potential long-term effects of COVID-19, and one way to start gathering information is by examining the present discourse on the topic. OBJECTIVE The conversation about long COVID-19 on Twitter provides insight into related public perception and personal experiences. METHODS A multipronged approach was used to analyze data (N = 2,500 records from Twitter) about long-COVID and from people experiencing long COVID-19. A text analysis was completed by both human coders and Netlytic, a cloud-based text and social networks analyzer. A social network analysis generated Name and Chain networks that showed connections and interactions between Twitter users. RESULTS Among the 2,010 tweets about long COVID-19, and 490 tweets by COVID-19 long-haulers 30,923 and 7,817 unique words were found, respectively. For booth conversation types ‘#longcovid’ and ‘covid’ were the most frequently mentioned words, however, through visually inspecting the data, words relevant to having long COVID-19 (i.e., symptoms, fatigue, pain) were more prominent in tweets by COVID-19 long-haulers. When discussing long COVID-19, the most prominent frames were ‘support’ (1090; 56.45%) and ‘research’ (435; 21.65%). In COVID-19 long haulers conversations, ‘symptoms’ (297; 61.5%) and ‘building a community’ (152; 31.5%) were the most prominent frames. The social network analysis revealed that for both tweets about long COVID-19 and tweets by COVID-19 long-haulers, networks are highly decentralized, fragmented, and loosely connected. CONCLUSIONS The present study provides a glimpse into the ways long COVID-19 is framed by social network users. Understanding these perspectives may help generate future patient-centered research questions.

Author(s):  
Sophie Mützel ◽  
Ronald Breiger

This chapter focuses on the general principle of duality, which was originally introduced by Simmel as the intersection of social circles. In a seminal article, Breiger formalized Simmel’s idea, showing how two-mode types of network data can be transformed into one-mode networks. This formal translation proved to be fundamental for social network analysis, which no longer needed data on who interacted with whom but could work with other types of data. In turn, it also proved fundamental for the analysis of how the social is structured in general, as many relations are dual (e.g. persons and groups, authors and articles, organizations and practices), and are thus susceptible to an analysis according to duality principles. The chapter locates the concept of duality within past and present sociology. It also discusses the use of duality in the analysis of culture as well as in affiliation networks. It closes with recent developments and future directions.


Social networks fundamentally shape our lives. Networks channel the ways that information, emotions, and diseases flow through populations. Networks reflect differences in power and status in settings ranging from small peer groups to international relations across the globe. Network tools even provide insights into the ways that concepts, ideas and other socially generated contents shape culture and meaning. As such, the rich and diverse field of social network analysis has emerged as a central tool across the social sciences. This Handbook provides an overview of the theory, methods, and substantive contributions of this field. The thirty-three chapters move through the basics of social network analysis aimed at those seeking an introduction to advanced and novel approaches to modeling social networks statistically. The Handbook includes chapters on data collection and visualization, theoretical innovations, links between networks and computational social science, and how social network analysis has contributed substantively across numerous fields. As networks are everywhere in social life, the field is inherently interdisciplinary and this Handbook includes contributions from leading scholars in sociology, archaeology, economics, statistics, and information science among others.


2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iraj Mohammadfam ◽  
Susan Bastani ◽  
Mahbobeh Esaghi ◽  
Rostam Golmohamadi ◽  
Ali Saee

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6347
Author(s):  
Marco Nunes ◽  
António Abreu ◽  
Célia Saraiva

Projects are considered crucial building blocks whereby organizations execute and implement their short-, mid-, and long-term strategic visions. Projects are thought, developed, and implemented to solve problems, drive change, satisfy unique needs, add value, and exploit opportunities, just to name a few objectives. Although existing project management tools and techniques aim to deliver projects with success, according to the latest reviewed literature, projects still keep failing at an impressive pace. Among the extensive list of factors that may threaten project success, several articles from the research literature place particular importance on a still underexplored factor that may strongly lead to unsuccessful project delivery. This factor—usually known as corporate behavioral risks—usually emerges and evolves as organizations work together to deliver projects across a bounded period of time, and is characterized by the mix of formal and informal dynamic interactions between the different stakeholders that constitute the different organizations. Furthermore, several articles from the research literature also point out the lack of proper models to efficiently manage corporate behavioral risks as one of the major factors that may lead to projects failing. To efficiently identify and measure how such corporate behaviors may contribute to a project’s outcomes (success or failure), a heuristic model is proposed in this work, developed based on four fundamental fields ((1) project management, (2) risk management, (3) corporate behavior, and (4) social network analysis), to quantitatively analyze four critical project social networks ((1) communication, (2) problem-solving, (3) advice, and (4) trust), by applying the theory of social network analysis (SNA). The proposed model in this work is supported with a case study to illustrate its implementation and application across a project lifecycle, and how organizations can benefit from its application.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-534
Author(s):  
Mehmet Ali Köseoğlu ◽  
John Parnell

PurposeThe authors evaluate the evolution of the intellectual structure of strategic management (SM) by employing a document co-citation analysis through a network analysis for academic citations in articles published in the Strategic Management Journal (SMJ).Design/methodology/approachThe authors employed the co-citation analysis through the social network analysis.FindingsThe authors outlined the evolution of the academic foundations of the structure and emphasized several domains. The economic foundation of SM research with macro and micro perspectives has generated a solid knowledge stock in the literature. Industrial organization (IO) psychology has also been another dominant foundation. Its robust development and extension in the literature have focused on cognitive issues in actors' behaviors as a behavioral foundation of SM. Methodological issues in SM research have become dominant between 2004 and 2011, but their influence has been inconsistent. The authors concluded by recommending future directions to increase maturity in the SM research domain.Originality/valueThis is the first paper to elucidate the intellectual structure of SM by adopting the co-citation analysis through the social network analysis.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-704
Author(s):  
Aprillian Kartino ◽  
M. Khairul Anam ◽  
Rahmaddeni ◽  
Junadhi

Covid-19 is a disease of the virus that is shaking the world and has been designated by WHO as a pandemic. This case of Covid-19 can be a place of dissemination of disinformation that can be utilized by some parties. The dissemination of information in this day and age has turned to the internet, namely social media, Twitter is one of the social media that is often used by Indonesians and the data can be analyzed. This study uses the social network analysis method, conducted to be able to find nodes that affect the ongoing interaction in the interaction network of information dissemination related to Covid-19 in Indonesia and see if the node is directly proportional to the value of its popularity. As well as to know in identifying the source of Covid-19 information, whether dominated by competent Twitter accounts in their fields. The data examined 19,939 nodes and 12,304 edges were taken from data provided by the web academic.droneemprit.id on the project "Analisis Opini Persebaran Virus Corona di Media Sosial", using the period of December 2019 to December 2020 on social media Twitter. The results showed that the @do_ra_dong account is an influential actor with the highest degree centrality of 860 and the @detikcom account is the actor with the highest popularity value of follower rank of 0.994741605. Thus actors who have a high degree of centrality value do not necessarily have a high follower rank value anyway. The study ignores if there are buzzer accounts on Twitter.  


Author(s):  
Mohana Shanmugam ◽  
Yusmadi Yah Jusoh ◽  
Rozi Nor Haizan Nor ◽  
Marzanah A. Jabar

The social network surge has become a mainstream subject of academic study in a myriad of disciplines. This chapter posits the social network literature by highlighting the terminologies of social networks and details the types of tools and methodologies used in prior studies. The list is supplemented by identifying the research gaps for future research of interest to both academics and practitioners. Additionally, the case of Facebook is used to study the elements of a social network analysis. This chapter also highlights past validated models with regards to social networks which are deemed significant for online social network studies. Furthermore, this chapter seeks to enlighten our knowledge on social network analysis and tap into the social network capabilities.


Author(s):  
Mochamad Yudha Febrianta ◽  
Yusditira Yusditira ◽  
Sri Widianesty

Virtual Hotel Operator (VHO) trend is growing rapidly, especially in Indonesia. Two of the most popular VHO in Indonesia are OYO and RedDoorz, both have been competing to attain the first position. Both OYO and RedDoorz have their own social media marketing strategies. For example, OYO persuades other conventional hotels to collaborate and use the OYO platform in their businesses. On the other hand, RedDoorz was recorded as the most visited Virtual Hotel Operator Platform in 2019, based on the data of Konsumen Jakpat 2019. OYO and RedDoorz also utilize social media to promote their services such as Instagram and Twitter. For advertising their businesses in social media, OYO and RedDoorz often use some social media influencers or known as influencer social media marketing. Influencers should be able to effectively deliver the messages and influence people’s decisions to use the products or services they advertise. This study aims to further explore the social media marketing strategy employed by OYO and RedDoorz. The results of Social Network Analysis by using “oyoindonesia” and ‘reddoorz’ as keywords in social media Twitter showed that RedDoorz has a bigger social network and more users involved in spreading their information than OYO. On the other hand, OYO's official account on Twitter is more efficient in performing its function as marketing media.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
marco nunes ◽  
Antônio José de Abreu Pina

Projects can be seen as the crucial building blocks whereby organizations execute and implement their short, and long-term strategic vision. Projects are thought to solve problems, drive change, satisfy unique needs, add value, or exploit opportunities, just to name a few. In order to successful deliver projects, project management tools and techniques are applied throughout a project´s lifecycle, essentially to efficiently and in a timely manner, identify and manage project risks. However, according to latest reviewed literature, projects keep failing at an impressive rate. Although research in the project management field argues that such failure rate is due to a huge variety of reasons, it highlights particular importance to a still underexplored and not quite well understood (regarding how it emerges and evolves) risk type, that may lead projects to failure. This risk type, called as corporate behavioral risks, usually emerge, and evolve as organizations work together across a finite period of time (for example, across a project lifecycle) to deliver projects, and is characterized by the mix of countless formal and informal dynamic interactions between the different elements that constitute the different organizations. Understanding the extent to which such corporate behavior influences project´s outcomes, is a breakthrough of high importance that positively impacts two dimensions; first, enables organizations that deliver projects (but not only), to increase the chances of project success, which in turn is a driver of sustainable business, because it allows the development and implementation of effective, and timely corrective measures to project´s tasks and activities, and second, it contributes to the scientific community (on the organizations field), to generate valuable and actionable new knowledge regarding the emergence and evolution of such cooperative risks, which can lead to the development of new theories and approaches on how to manage them. In this work, we propose a heuristic model to efficiently identify and analyze how corporate behavioral risks may influence project´s outcomes. The proposed model in this work, lays its foundations on four fundamental fields ((1) project management, (2) risk management, (3) corporate behavior, and (4) social network analysis), and will quantitatively measure four critical project social networks ((1) communication, (2) problem-solving, (3) advice, and (4) trust) that usually emerge as projects are being delivered, by applying the theory of social network analysis (SNA), more concretely, SNA centrality metrics. The proposed model in this work is supported with a case study to illustrate its implementation across a project lifecycle, and how organizations can benefit from its application.


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