Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Social Dynamics and Personal Attributes in Social Media

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Joint Workshop

GWAP as a Tool to Analyze, Design, and Test Geo-Social Systems

2013 ◽  
pp. 380-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Deplano ◽  
Giancarlo Ruffo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Traffic Information ◽  
Real Time Traffic ◽  
Social Events

In this chapter, the authors discuss the state-of-the-art of Geo-Social systems and Recommender systems, which are becoming extremely popular for users accessing social media trough mobile devices. Moreover, they introduce a general framework based on the interaction among those systems and the “Game With A Purpose” (GWAP) paradigm. The proposed framework/platform can help researchers to understand geo-social dynamics in order to design and test new services, such as recommenders of places of interest for tourists, real-time traffic information systems, personalized suggestions of social events, and so forth. To target the governance of such complexity, relevant data must be collected by the investigators, shared with the community, and analyzed to find dynamical patterns that correlate spatial-temporal information with the user’s preferences and objectives. The authors argue that the GWAP approach can be exploited to successfully satisfy many of these tasks.

Statistical Methods for Conducting the Ontology and Classifications of Fake News on Social Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 632-651
Author(s):  
Joshua Ojo Nehinbe
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
Political Rivalry

Fake news and its impacts are serious threats to social media in recent time. Studies on the ontology of these problems reveal that serious cybercrimes such as character assassination, misinformation, and blackmailing that some people intentionally perpetrate through social networks significantly correlate with fake news. Consequently, some classical studies on social anthropology have profiled the problems and motives of perpetrators of fake news on political, rivalry, and religious issues in contemporary society. However, this classification is restrictive and statistically defective in dealing with cyber security, forensic problems, and investigation of social dynamics on social media. This chapter exhaustively discusses the above issues and identifies solutions to challenges confronting research community in the above domain. Thematic analysis of responses of certain respondents reveal three new classifications of fake news that people propagate on social media on the basis of mode of propagation, motives of perpetrators, and impacts on victims.

scholarly journals Use and Appropriation of Virtual Social Networks: Mexico and Spain, a Cross-Cultural Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Salvador Madrigal Moreno ◽  
Jaime Gil Lafuente ◽  
Gerardo Gabriel Alfaro Calderón ◽  
Flor Madrigal Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Study ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Embryonic Stage ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Current

Virtual social networks (VSN) represent a phenomenon that continues reconfiguring the social dynamics. They have gone from the embryonic stage to a stage of maturity where it is observed that the context uses and appropriates those considered useful, giving them the use that seems to fit. Thus, Mexico and Spain contexts have specific characteristics and conditions. The aim of this study is to describe the access and appropriations of VSN, both in Mexico and in Spain and to show the challenges they face. The structure of this research is primarily an introduction to explain social networks as a current media phenomenon to later compare how each context has accessed, used and fitted these social networks into their own contexts. Finally, it will be discussed how Spain and Mexico face their challenges and last how each country treat the social media either as a threat or as an opportunity.

Social dynamics of Twitter usage in London, Paris, and New York City

First Monday ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Adnan ◽  
Paul A. Longley ◽  
Shariq M. Khan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Media ◽  
New York City ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The penetration and use of social media services differs from city to city. This paper investigates the social dynamics of Twitter social media usage in three ethnically diverse cities — London, Paris, and New York City. We present a spatial analysis of Tweeting activity in the three cities, broken down by ethnicity and gender. We model the ethnic identity of Twitter users using their paired forenames and surnames. The geo–tagged Tweets provide an insight into the geography of their activity patterns across the three cities. The gender of each Twitter user is identified through classification of forenames, suggesting that, irrespective of the ethnic identity, the majority of Twitter users are male. Taken together, the results present a window on the activity patterns of different ethnic groups.

Students ' understandings of mental health and their preferred learning platforms

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Bone ◽  
Pat Dugard ◽  
Panos Vostanis ◽  
Nisha Dogra
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Learning Preferences ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Content Type ◽  
School Based ◽  
Mental Health Interventions ◽  
Learning Platforms ◽  
Indian Students

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine students’ understandings of mental health and their learning preferences, in order to provide guidance for developing targeted mental health education. Design/methodology/approach – A study-specific self-administered questionnaire was used at two English schools (n=980; ages 11-18), incorporating a combination of open-ended and fixed-choice items. Data were subject to content analysis, cross-tabulation of frequencies and statistical analyses. Findings – Overall, students understood mental health in terms of personal attributes or disorder, however older students were more likely to talk about relationships. Males were less likely to say they wanted to learn about mental health than females, believing they had no need to learn more. White students were also less interested in learning about mental health than Indian students. Overall, students said they would not use social media to learn, however Indian students were most likely to want to use it. Younger students preferred school-based learning to online. Research limitations/implications – The questionnaires were study specific and self-report. However interesting demographic variations in responses were found, worthy of further exploration. Social implications – Policymakers should consider targeted mental health interventions in schools and research the potential roles/barriers of the internet and social media. Long-term possible benefits relate to improved preventative strategies within schools. Originality/value – Previous research has focused on the delivery of mental health promotion/education in schools, whereas the current study drew on a large sample of students to understand how they define mental health for themselves, as well as how they prefer to learn about it.

scholarly journals In.To. COVID-19 Socio-epidemiological Co-causality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elroy Galbraith ◽  
Matteo Convertino ◽  
Jie Li ◽  
Victor Del-Rio Vilas
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Forecast Accuracy ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Information Dynamics ◽  
Web Based ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Social media can forecast disease dynamics, but infoveillance remains focused on infection spread, with little consideration of media content reliability and its relationship to behavior-driven epidemiological outcomes. Sentiment-encoded social media indicators have been poorly developed for expressed text to forecast healthcare pressure and infer population risk perception patterns. Here we introduce Infodemic Tomography (InTo) as the first web-based interactive infoveillance cybertechnology that forecasts and visualizes spatio-temporal sentiments and healthcare pressure as a function of social media positivity (i.e., Twitter here), considering both epidemic information and potential misinformation. Information spread is measured on volume and retweets and the Value of Misinformation (VoMi) is introduced as the impact on forecast accuracy where misinformation has the highest dissimilarity in information dynamics. We validate InTo for COVID-19 in New Delhi and three other SE Asian cities. We forecast weekly hospitalization and cases using ARIMA models and interpolate spatial hospitalization using geostatistical kriging on inferred risk perception curves between tweet positivity and epidemiological outcomes. Geospatial tweet positivity tracks accurately ~60% of hospitalizations and forecasts hospitalization risk hotspots along risk aversion gradients. VoMi is higher for risk-prone areas and time periods, where misinformation has the highest predictability, with high incidence and positivity manifesting popularity-seeking social dynamics. Hospitalization gradients, VoMi, effective healthcare pressure and spatial model-data gaps can be used to predict hospitalization fluxes, misinformation, capacity gaps and surveillance uncertainty. Thus, InTo is a participatory instrument to better prepare and respond to public health crises by extracting and combining salient epidemiological and social surveillance at any desired space-time scale.

scholarly journals Understanding users Display-Name Consistency across Social Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5S3) ◽  
pp. 471-476
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Social Networking Services ◽  
Twitter User ◽  
The Social ◽  
Twitter Users

Online users create their profiles on numerous social platforms to get benefits of various types of social media content. During online profile creation, the user selects a username and feeds his/her personal details like name, location, email, etc. As different social networking services acquire common personal attributes of the same user and present them in a variety of formats. To understand the availability and similarity of personal attributes across various social networking services, we propose a method that uses the different distance measuring algorithms to determine the display-name similarity across social networks. From the experimental results, it is found that at least twenty percent GooglePlus-Facebook and Facebook-Twitter users select the same display name, while forty five percent Google and Twitter user select identical name across both the social networks.

scholarly journals NOT EVEN THE SKY IS THE LIMIT: THE MEANINGS OF CONSUMPTION AND THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL MOBILITY ON THE @blogueiradebaixarenda PROFILE ON INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 831-859
Author(s):  
Carla Barros
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Observational Research ◽  
Cultural Mediator ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Abstract The article sets out to explore the meanings surrounding consumption on the @blogueiradebaixarenda profile on the Instagram and YouTube online social networks, considering the perceptions of materiality and their articulations with the dynamics of social mobility. It analyses the elements making up the “low-income lifestyle” as a native category within the context of “digital influencers.” Through online observational research, the posts, hashtags and comments on both social media platforms were analysed, seeking to explore how consumption practices appear as mediators of social dynamics and identity constructs. Among the results, the articulations between materiality and social mobility, the idea of minimalism within the “low-income lifestyle” and the blogger’s status as a cultural mediator are highlighted.

scholarly journals Understanding the Users Personal Attributes Similarity Across Online Social Networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 3902-3908
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Services ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Modern Era

In this modern era of technology, everyone accessing the Internet is obsessed with social media. A User accesses different social media services to fulfill his diverse needs. For instance, Instagram is mainly used for sharing personal visual content while Twitter is known for finding latest news and trends, similarly Facebook for personal posts. Such services lead to the distribution of personal information of an Internet user on these platforms. In this paper, we build a framework to discover the relationship among the attributes of a user across the social media.We use different fuzzy string matching algorithms to find the similarities between the attributes. We extract the ‘name’ and ‘username’ from a publicly shared dataset and apply two character based and token based algorithms on these features. The results are indicative of the fact that only a limited number of users share the same name and username across the sites. On further analysis, it is found that although name and username of most of the users do not exactly match, they tend to be similar with the infinitesimal difference like; underscore, period, one digit numbers, etc. This study provides an analysis of the typical variations in names and usernames, which can further be studied for the extension to other social networks This profile will help in behavior analysis of a user, which will further help us to improve recommendations and analyze for criminal behavior and similar applications.

scholarly journals Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cultural Engagement ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Clear Point ◽  
Social Media Platforms

A few months into the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (2009-2001), the promises of social media, including its ability to influence a participatory governance model, grassroots civic engagement, new social dynamics, inclusive societies and new opportunities for businesses and entrepreneurs, became more evident than ever. Simultaneously, cartography received new considerable interest as it merged with social media platforms. In an attempt to rearticulate the relationship between media and mapping practices, whilst also addressing new and social media, this interdisciplinary book abides by one relatively clear point: space is a media product. The overall focus of this book is accordingly not so much on the role of new technologies and social networks as it is on how media and mapping practices expand the very notion of cultural engagement, political activism, popular protest and social participation.

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