Social media and real world events
How would you feel if one of your social media posts about an event was used in this kind of analysis, are you always a reliable source of data? How would you make judgements about the accuracy of information that other people posted about the event?
Further reading
Optionally you may like to read the summary of Vieweg et al’s situational awareness paper that is attached to this article. It is a good example the first part of the Web Science cycle, where studies inform theory about a technology is used. The next part of the cycle would be to use this new understanding to create more powerful analyses and tools.References
- De Longueville, B., Smith, R. S., & Luraschi, G. (2009). “OMG, from here, I can see the flames!”: a use case of mining location based social networks to acquire spatio-temporal data on forest fires. Proceedings of the 2009 International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks, ACM
- Lee, R., Wakamiya, S., & Sumiya, K. (2013). Urban area characterization based on crowd behavioral lifelogs over Twitter. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 17(4).
- Mao, Y., Wei, W., & Wang, B. (2013). Twitter volume spikes: analysis and application in stock trading. Presented at the SNAKDD ‘13: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis, ACM
- Sakaki, T., Okazaki, M., & Matsuo, Y. (2010). Earthquake shakes Twitter users (pp. 851–860). Presented at the the 19th international conference on the World Wide Web , New York, New York, USA: ACM Press.
- Signorini, A., Segre, A. M., & Polgreen, P. M. (2011). The Use of Twitter to Track Levels of Disease Activity and Public Concern in the U.S. during the Influenza A H1N1 Pandemic. PLOS ONE, 6(5)
- Tsou, M., & Yang, J. (n.d.). Spatial Analysis of Social Media Content (Tweets) during the 2012 US Republican Presidential Primaries. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 2013
- Tumasjan, A., Sprenger, T. O., Sandner, P. G., & Welpe, I. M. (2010). Predicting Elections with Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal about Political Sentiment. Proceedings of the Fourth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media
- Vieweg, S., Hughes, A. L., Starbird, K., & Palen, L. (2010). Microblogging during two natural hazards events: what twitter may contribute to situational awareness. Presented at the CHI ‘10: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM
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