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The influence of social norms on synchronous versus asynchronous communication technologies

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Abdullah Almaatouq,

Fahad Alhasoun,

Riccardo Campari,

Anas AlfarisAuthors Info & Claims

PDM '13: Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Personal data meets distributed multimedia

Pages 39 - 42

https://doi.org/10.1145/2509352.2509398

Published: 22 October 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Extensive theoretic work attempts to address the role of social norms in describing, explaining and predicting human behaviors. However, traditional methods of assessing the effect can be expensive and time consuming. In this work, we utilize data generated by the call detail records (CDRs) and geo-tagged Tweets (GTTs) as enabling proxies for understanding human activity patterns. We present preliminary results on the effect of social norms on communication patterns during different times of the day, including prayer times. Specifically, we investigate the variations in population behavioral patterns with respect to social norms between asynchronous (i.e., Twitter) and synchronous (i.e., phone calls) communication mediums in the city of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.

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Alhindi TAldawood SAlmahmoud JSandoval CAl-Wabil AAlsaleh MWilliams S(2016)Towards Urban Tribes in Saudi Arabia: Social Subcultures Emerging from Urban Analytics of Social MediaSocial Computing and Social Media10.1007/978-3-319-39910-2_24(258-266)Online publication date: 22-Jun-2016
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DOI:10.1145/2509352

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Chen YLee SXie YYang YLasecki WOney SMark GFussell SLampe Cschraefel mHourcade JAppert CWigdor D(2017)CodeonProceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3025453.3025972(6220-6231)Online publication date: 2-May-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3025453.3025972
Alhindi TAldawood SAlmahmoud JSandoval CAl-Wabil AAlsaleh MWilliams S(2016)Towards Urban Tribes in Saudi Arabia: Social Subcultures Emerging from Urban Analytics of Social MediaSocial Computing and Social Media10.1007/978-3-319-39910-2_24(258-266)Online publication date: 22-Jun-2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39910-2_24
Almaatouq AAlabdulkareem ANouh MShmueli EAlsaleh MSingh VAlarifi AAlfaris APentland AMenczer FHendler JDutton WStrohmaier MMeyer ECattuto C(2014)TwitterProceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Web science10.1145/2615569.2615688(33-41)Online publication date: 23-Jun-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2615569.2615688

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