Potential Power and Problems in Sentiment Mining of Social Media

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wang ◽  
Qiannong Gu ◽  
Gang Wang

Sentiment mining research has experienced an explosive growth in awareness and demand as Web 2.0 technologies have paved the way for a surge of social media platforms that have significantly and rapidly increased the availability of user generated opinioned text. The power of opinions has long been known and is beginning to be tapped to a fuller potential through sentiment mining research. Social media sites have become a paradise for sentiment providing endless streams of opinioned text encompassing an infinite array of topics. With the potential to predict outcomes with a relative degree of accuracy, sentiment mining has become a hot topic not only to researchers, but to corporations as well. As the social media user base continues to expand and as researchers compete to fulfill the demand for sentiment analytic tools to sift through the endless stream of user generated content, the growth of sentiment mining of social media will continue well into the future with an emphasis on improved reliability, accuracy, and automation.

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Mufida Cahyani

The emergence of various kinds of social media applications does not only affect the way people communicate, but also penetrates into the realm of online mass media. Social media platforms that carry the concept of web 2.0 namely user generated content and network effects make it easy for a news to become viral in a short time, regardless of the validity and accuracy of the news. Web 2.0 itself is a direct application of the concept of Knowledge Management (KM) which emphasizes collaboration and user participation, but in a broader domain, it is slightly different from KM which emphasizes internal organizational participation. Hipwee as one of the social media-based online news sites applies both concepts to its content management. The purpose of this study was to analyze the extent of the application of KM in relation to Web 2.0. The method used to explore data through interviews with Hipwee managers and direct observation to the office location and also the Hipwee site. The results obtained are that the adaptation of the KM concept has not been applied to Web 2.0 on the Hipwee site, namely the concept of data mining, while the Web 2.0 concept has been applied to KM, namely unbounded collaboration, user generated content and network effects.


Author(s):  
Ganiyu Ojo Adigun ◽  
Adebayo Muritala Adegbore ◽  
Halimah Odunayo Amuda

This chapter discusses how to transform libraries into a social library by integrating social networking tools into library reference services. Social networking/media tools enable Reference Librarians to communicate, network, and share documents with many library clients regardless of location, and at little or no expense. Reference Librarians can build relationships and keep up to date with library clients. Social networking media, however, open up new forms of collaboration that are not so bounded by time, place, and access to funding. This chapter looks at the following: needs and purpose of reference services, social responsibility of library, social networking in library reference services, challenges and prospects of integrating social networking into reference services, social media platforms, and ways to improve the use of social networking in library reference services in the future.


Through case studies of incidents around the world where the social media platforms have been used and abused for ulterior purposes, Chapter 6 highlights the lessons that can be learned. For good or for ill, the author elaborates on the way social media has been used as an arbiter to inflict various forms of political influence and how we may have become desensitized due to the popularity of the social media platforms themselves. A searching view is provided that there is now a propensity by foreign states to use social media to influence the user base of sovereign countries during key political events. This type of activity now justifies a paradigm shift in relation to our perception and utilization of computerized devices for the future.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 205630511982984
Author(s):  
Abigail E. Curlew

Anonymous social media platforms comprise sprawling publics where users, untethered from their legal identity, interact with other anonymous users to share and read user-generated content. The emergence of mobile applications that promise anonymity as a primary feature has led to novel social configurations that have so far been understudied. This article is an empirical and theoretical attempt to understand the ways in which anonymous social media have altered the social through performative, digital acts mediated through a community of anonymous users. I do this through two main propositions: first, that practices of anonymity mediated through a social media platform comprise discrete performative acts of identity due to a process of dissociability, and second, that those dissociated performative acts become undisciplined. To address these propositions, I have drawn from 12 semi-structured interviews of undergraduate and graduate students at Queen’s University who were avid users of Yik Yak to explore the sociology of anonymity, surveillance, and identity. The findings are discussed in relation to theories of performativity and discipline that have been commonly deployed in media and surveillance studies.


Author(s):  
Anurag Singh

Social CRM is gradually stirring into the conventional business strategies in spite of much hue and cry for unsecured process and stepping. Seeing people networked for the sustainable advantages of the companies, they are now being enabled by web 2.0 technologies. Web 2.0 technology is a hopeful breakthrough to modernize the CRM. In the process and implementation of the strategy, few of corporate giants have already jumped into the social CRM, and few are in the process of comprehension and the adoption. This paper aims to portray the process of social media in monitoring and fostering the relationship. The study talks about the detailed functioning of social CRM after having the investigation of the present famous social CRM process. Further an initiative is taken to explore the social CRM practices in Indian industries and to explain other functions of SCRM through cases, for capability building and healthy management.


Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 456
Author(s):  
Varuni Bhatia

What do god posters circulating online tell us about the practice of popular Hinduism in the age of digital mediatization? The article seeks to address the question by exploring images and god posters dedicated to the planetary deity Shani on Web 2.0. The article tracks Shani’s presence on a range of online platforms—from the religion and culture pages of newspapers to YouTube videos and social media platforms. Using Shani’s presence on the Web as a case study, the article argues that content drawn from popular Hinduism, dealing with astrology, ritual, religious vows and observances, form a significant and substantial aspect of online Hinduism. The article draws attention to the specific affordances of Web 2.0 to radically rethink what engaging with the sacred object in a virtual realm may entail. In doing so, it indicates what the future of Hindu religiosity may look like.


Author(s):  
Ganiyu Ojo Adigun ◽  
Adebayo Muritala Adegbore ◽  
Halimah Odunayo Amuda

This chapter discusses how to transform libraries into a social library by integrating social networking tools into library reference services. Social networking/media tools enable Reference Librarians to communicate, network, and share documents with many library clients regardless of location, and at little or no expense. Reference Librarians can build relationships and keep up to date with library clients. Social networking media, however, open up new forms of collaboration that are not so bounded by time, place, and access to funding. This chapter looks at the following: needs and purpose of reference services, social responsibility of library, social networking in library reference services, challenges and prospects of integrating social networking into reference services, social media platforms, and ways to improve the use of social networking in library reference services in the future.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole J. Lee

The Mertonian norms of science were envisioned at a time when scientific communication was relatively centralized and hierarchical. However, Web 2.0 technologies and social media platforms have generated new systemic vulnerabilities by divorcing the certification and amplification of science. This paper argues for certified amplification, a Mertonian-styled norm that enjoins their recoupling, and introduces a taxonomy of strategies institutions have adopted to close the certification-amplification gap. The examples illustrating each taxonomic type collectively paint a picture of an ethos emerging in a decentralized fashion across a heterogeneous range of objects, communication modalities, and institutional contexts.


Author(s):  
وليد محمد هيكل

Altmetrics is one of the recent impact measures to measure all sources of information without bias or exception. These measurements are completely dependent on the Web 2.0 environment to track posts, comments and public discussions around research products in the social media, as they are not only based on reference citations that are considered in the traditional measurements but considered them as one of the factors in a variety of other measurements. Since the start of talking about these measurements, a number of services and tools have emerged which are developed continuously. Like any new field, it has its supporters and opponents due to the restrictions, problems and manipulations that face the application of these measurements. That is why this study targeted the concept of altmetrics and the advantages of their application, the expected disadvantages behind their use, as well as the methods of manipulation used by researchers and publishers and ways to confront them. The researcher has depended on documentary approach to discuss the topic of altmetrics, and then explain the related terms, and describe them accurately. This study found that the altmetrics is one of the new measurements as a branch of the scientometrics stemming from the informetrics. It mainly focuses on capturing, collecting and analyzing data of the impact of research products on the web environment. Therefore, this study recommends the necessity of concerting the efforts of the academic and research institutions to spread awareness of the use and the application of altmetrics in the academic community, as well as encourages the researchers to publish and share their researches on social media platforms.


Koneksi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 338
Author(s):  
Faiz Zulia Maharany ◽  
Ahmad Junaidi

'Nightmare' is the title of a video clip belonging to a singer and singer called Halsey, in which the video clip is explained about the figure of women who struggle against patriarchal culture which has been a barrier wall for women to get their rights, welfare and the equality needed they get. This research uses descriptive qualitative research methods. Data collection techniques are done through documentation, observation and study of literature. Then, analyzed using Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotics technique. The results of this study show the fact that signs, symbols or messages representing feminism in the video, 'Nightmare' clips are presented through scenes that present women's actions in opposing domination over men and sarcastic sentences contained in the lyrics of the song to discuss with patriarchy. Youtube as one of the social media platforms where the 'Nightmare' video clip is uploaded is very effective for mass communication and for conveying the message contained in the video clip to the viewing public.‘Nightmare’ adalah judul video klip milik musisi sekaligus penyanyi yang bernama Halsey, dimana pada Video klipnya tersebut menceritakan tentang figur perempuan-perempuan yang berusaha melawan budaya patriarki yang selama ini telah menjadi dinding penghalang bagi perempuan untuk mendapatkan hak-haknya, keadilan dan kesetaraan yang seharusnya mereka dapatkan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif deskriptif. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui dokumentasi, observasi dan studi kepustakaan. Kemudian, dianalisis menggunakan teknik semiotika milik Charles Sanders Peirce. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa terdapat tanda-tanda, simbol atau pesan yang merepresentasikan feminisme di dalam video klip ‘Nightmare’ yang dihadirkan melalui adegan-adegan yang menyajikan aksi perempuan dalam menolak dominasi atas laki-laki dan kalimat-kalimat sarkas yang terkandung dalam lirik lagunya untuk ditujukan kepada patriarki. Youtube sebagai salah satu platform media sosial dimana video klip ‘Nightmare’ diunggah sangat efektif untuk melakukan komunikasi massa dan untuk menyampaikan pesan yang terkandung di dalam video klip tersebut kepada masyarakat yang menonton.


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