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Multilingual use of twitter: social networks and language choice

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CSCW '12: Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2141512.2141621

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Understanding the language ecology within an online social network could inform the design of socio-technical systems that effectively enable information diffusion and collective action across language borders. This dissertation work proposes to explore the language choices of bilingual and multilingual users in the microblogging site Twitter in relation to their social network and types of information shared. At the same time, it aims at identifying the characteristics that could enable cross-language information flows. The methodology will follow a recently proposed paradigm of Web content analysis that includes social network analysis.

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Multilingual use of twitter: social networks and language choice
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Web-based interaction

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Reviewer: George Popescu

This short doctoral colloquium proposal summarizes the main goals and methodology of a research project focusing on the study of multilingual use of Twitter. Two research directions are proposed: one studying social networks and one studying language choice in the Twitter platform. This exploratory presentation highlights the importance of information diffusion across language borders. Twitter's potential lies in the ease with which it can spread information about events taking place in the world across languages and countries. Thus, the proposed research concentrates on identifying the users that build language bridges and understanding their language choices, in order to inform the design of a social and technical system that would facilitate the information flow across multiple languages. The main methods used for the research development center on data collection-of recent message posts and language identification-via Twitter's application programming interface (API). Both qualitative and quantitative approaches for content analysis will be used. Finally, this proposal highlights the expected benefits of joining the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) doctoral consortium, specifically, the new challenges in the field and the discovery of network analysis tools. Online Computing Reviews Service

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CSCW '12: Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion

February 2012

388 pages

ISBN:9781450310512

DOI:10.1145/2141512

General Chairs:
Steven Poltrock
Boeing Research & Technology
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University of Milano-Biccoca
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Microsoft Research
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Gloria Mark
University of California, Irvine
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John Riedl
University of Minnesota

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Thomas PSaldanha EVolkova S(2021)Studying information recurrence, gatekeeping, and the role of communities during internet outages in VenezuelaScientific Reports10.1038/s41598-021-87473-811:1Online publication date: 14-Apr-2021
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87473-8
Tolmie PProcter RRouncefield MLiakata MZubiaga A(2018)Microblog Analysis as a Program of WorkACM Transactions on Social Computing10.1145/31629561:1(1-40)Online publication date: 18-Jan-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3162956
Hamed AWu XRubin A(2014)A twitter recruitment intelligent system: association rule mining for smoking cessationSocial Network Analysis and Mining10.1007/s13278-014-0212-64:1Online publication date: 12-Aug-2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-014-0212-6

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