Gender-Based Tweet Analysis (GTA)

Author(s):  
Dipti P. Rana ◽  
Navodita Saini

Each gender is having special personality and behavior characteristics that can be naturally reflected in the language used on social media to review, spread information, make relationships, etc. This information is used by different agencies for their profits. The magnified study of this information can reflect the implicit biases of their creators' gender. The ratio of gender is imbalanced across the global world, social media, discussion, etc. Twitter is used to discuss the issues caused by COVID-19 disease like its symptoms, mental health, advice, etc. This fascinating information motivated this research to propose the methodology gender-based tweet analysis (GTA) to study and magnify gender's impact on emotions of tweet data. The analysis of the experiment discovered the biases of gender on emotions of tweet data and highlighted the future real-world applications which may become more productive if gender biases are considered for the safety and benefit of society.

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-165
Author(s):  
S. Dinar Annisa Abdullah ◽  
Samudera Alfatra

This study tires to explore on how far the idea of Islamic moderation was adopted by Duta Damai of East Kalimantan in order to support a campaign of harmony in diversity. Using content analysis, this study tries to describe in depth the information content of Duta Damai community in East Kalimantan. The results of the study indicate that Duta Damai of East Kalimantan conducted counter-narratives of negative content on social media through opinions and statuses on social media, including: (1) alignment of Pancasila ideology with religious teachings, (2) revealing facts and education related to hoaxes ( 3) multicultural education campaigns and respect for differences, (4) actualization of the contemporary jihad. These four things are in line with the idea of Islamic, meaning that the community actualizes the idea of Islamic moderation in every campaign activity and movement. Through the tagline 'peace is Indonesia', Duta Damai of East Kalimantan want youth groups to actively campaign for the importance of positive speech and behavior and spread peaceful movement, both in the cyberspace and in the real world.


2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (23) ◽  
pp. e2019527118
Author(s):  
Benjamin A. Lyons ◽  
Jacob M. Montgomery ◽  
Andrew M. Guess ◽  
Brendan Nyhan ◽  
Jason Reifler

We examine the role of overconfidence in news judgment using two large nationally representative survey samples. First, we show that three in four Americans overestimate their relative ability to distinguish between legitimate and false news headlines; respondents place themselves 22 percentiles higher than warranted on average. This overconfidence is, in turn, correlated with consequential differences in real-world beliefs and behavior. We show that overconfident individuals are more likely to visit untrustworthy websites in behavioral data; to fail to successfully distinguish between true and false claims about current events in survey questions; and to report greater willingness to like or share false content on social media, especially when it is politically congenial. In all, these results paint a worrying picture: The individuals who are least equipped to identify false news content are also the least aware of their own limitations and, therefore, more susceptible to believing it and spreading it further.


BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed A. Mamun

Background The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health threat of international concern, intensifying peoples’ psychological risk and vulnerability by strengthening mental health stressors such as fear, panic and uncertainty. The unexpected fear of COVID-19 has been reported to be associated with suicide occurrences, similar to prior pandemics. Aims Identifying the factors associated with fear of COVID-19 could help us to develop better mental health strategy and practice to improve the situation here in Bangladesh. This was the first attempt to present a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based distribution of fear of COVID-19 across the country's administrative districts in a nationwide sample. Method Data for a total of 10 067 individuals were collected by an online survey during the first wave of the pandemic (1 to 10 April 2020); data for 10 052 participants were finally analysed after excluding 15 transgender individuals. The survey questionnaire included items concerning sociodemographic, behavioural and health-related variables, COVID-19-related issues, and the Bangla Fear of COVID-19 Scale. Results The mean fear of COVID-19 scores was 21.30 ± 6.01 (out of a possible 35) in the present sample. Female gender, highly educated, non-smoker, non-alcohol consumer, having chronic diseases, using social media, and using social media and not using newspapers as COVID-19 information sources were associated with a higher level of fear of COVID-19. Higher levels of fear of COVID-19 were found in districts of Magura, Panchagarh, Tangail, Sunamganj and Munshiganj; by contrast, Kushtia, Pirojpur, Chapainawabganj, Jhalokathi and Naogaon districts had lower fear of COVID-19. Based on the GIS-distribution, fear of COVID-19 was significantly associated with the district as well as in respect to its gender-based and education-level-based associations. However, fear of COVID-19 and COVID-19 cases were heterogeneously distributed across the districts; that is, no consistent association of higher COVID-19 cases with higher fear of COVID-19 was found. Conclusions This study being exploratory in nature may help to facilitate further studies, as well as directing governmental initiatives for reducing fear of COVID-19 in at-risk individuals. Providing adequate resources and mental health services in the administrative regions identified as highly vulnerable to fear of COVID-19 is recommended.


2012 ◽  
Vol 622-623 ◽  
pp. 1933-1936
Author(s):  
Fang Jun Wu

Open source software systems are becoming increasingly important these days and will grow stronger in the future. In order to gain more information about them, their structure characteristics and behavior characteristics need to be measured. This paper tests scale free characteristics on open source real-world software empirically. More specially, this paper checks whether Chidamber and Kemerer metrics suite follows power law or not through three versions of Weka. Our empirical results showed that the features of complex networks didn’t exist in Weka.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-164
Author(s):  
S. Dinar Annisa Abdullah ◽  
Samudera Alfatra

This study tires to explore on how far the idea of Islamic moderation was adopted by Duta Damai of East Kalimantan in order to support a campaign of harmony in diversity. Using content analysis, this study tries to describe in depth the information content of Duta Damai community in East Kalimantan. The results of the study indicate that Duta Damai of East Kalimantan conducted counter-narratives of negative content on social media through opinions and statuses on social media, including: (1) alignment of Pancasila ideology with religious teachings, (2) revealing facts and education related to hoaxes ( 3) multicultural education campaigns and respect for differences, (4) actualization of the contemporary jihad. These four things are in line with the idea of Islamic, meaning that the community actualizes the idea of Islamic moderation in every campaign activity and movement. Through the tagline 'peace is Indonesia', Duta Damai of East Kalimantan want youth groups to actively campaign for the importance of positive speech and behavior and spread peaceful movement, both in the cyberspace and in the real world.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 309-316
Author(s):  
D. Sridhar ◽  
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V. Kathiresan
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2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Anwar Hafidzi

This research begins with an understanding of the endemic radicalism of society, not only of the real world, but also of various online social media. This study showed that the avoidance of online radicalism can be stopped as soon as possible by accusing those influenced by the radical radicality of a secular religious approach. The methods used must be assisted in order to achieve balanced understanding (wasathiyah) under the different environmental conditions of the culture through recognizing the meaning of religion. The research tool used is primarily library work and the journal writings by Abu Rokhmad, a terrorist and radicalise specialist. The results of this study are that an approach that supports inclusive ism will avoid the awareness of radicalization through a heart-to-heart approach. This study also shows that radical actors will never cease to argue dramatically until they are able to grasp different views from Islamic law, culture, and families.Keywords: radicalism, deradicalization, multiculturalism, culture, religion, moderate.Penelitian ini berawal dari paham radikalisme yang telah mewabah di masyarakat, bukan hanya di dunia nyata, bahkan sudah menyusup di berbagai media sosial online. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa cara menangkal radikalisme online dapat dilakukan pencegahan sedini mungkin melalui pendekatan konseling religius multikultural terhadap mereka yang terkena paham radikal radikal. Diantara teknik yang digunakan adalah melalui pemahaman tentang konsep agama juga perlu digalakkan agar memunculkan pemahaman yang moderat (wasathiyah) diberbagai keadaan lingkungan masyarakat. Metode yang digunakan untuk penelitian ini adalah library research dengan sumber utama adalah karya dan jurnal karya Abu Rokhmad seorang pakar dalam masalah terorisme dan radikalisme. Temuan penelitian ini adalah paham radikalisasi itu dapat dihentikan dengan pendekatan hati ke hati dengan mengedepankan budaya yang multikultural. Kajian ini juga membuktikan bahwa pelaku paham radikal tidak akan pernah berhenti memberikan argumen radikal kecuali mampu memahami perbedaan pendapat yang bersumber dari syariat Islam, lingkungan sosial, dan keluarga.Kata kunci: radikalisme, deradikalisasi, multikultural, budaya, agama, moderat.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-143
Author(s):  
Hilary Holmes ◽  
Alba E. Lara ◽  
Gregory S. Brown

Background: Social media is a relatively new and impactful way to connect millions of people around the world. The intersection of mental health and social media is a poorly studied, yet important area of research. Specifically, with regard to college-aged youth, social media can potentially offer an educational tool to enhance mental health awareness or augment treatment when it is used for professional purposes by mental health advocates or healthcare professionals. There is also the added risk of disinformation, cyberbullying, and privacy breaches. Objective: This review aims to assess the current state of social media use and its influence on mental health, especially in college-age youth. Methods: The authors of this paper utilized PubMed and Medline databases to review the most recent experimental studies and literature reviews available on the topic of mental health and social media. Results: Abstracts and relevant papers were read in full, and information from these studies was cited accordingly. Conclusion: The authors conclude that although more research needs to be conducted, social media may offer benefits for mental health awareness, education, and treatment, specifically in populations such as college-age youth.


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