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Come Together!”: Interactions of Language Networks and Multilingual Communities on Twitter

verfasst von : Nabeel Albishry, Tom Crick, Theo Tryfonas

Erschienen in: Computational Collective Intelligence

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Emerging tools and methodologies are providing insight into the factors that promote the propagation of information in online social networks following significant activities, such as high-profile international social or societal events. This paper presents an extensible approach for analysing how different language communities engage and interact on the social networking platform Twitter via an analysis of the Eurovision Song Contest held in Stockholm, Sweden, in May 2016. By utilising language information from user profiles (N = 1,226,959) and status updates (N = 7,926,746) to identify and categorise communities, our approach is able to categorise these interactions, as well as construct network graphs to provide further insight on these multilingual communities. The results show that multilingualism is positively correlated with activity whilst negatively correlated with posting in the user’s own language.

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Fußnoten
1
For Twitter, status may also be referred to as post, or tweet.
 
2
In this context, different language refers to tweet’s language that is different to the user profile language settings.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
“Come Together!”: Interactions of Language Networks and Multilingual Communities on Twitter
verfasst von
Nabeel Albishry
Tom Crick
Theo Tryfonas
Copyright-Jahr
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67077-5_45