Tracking discourse on social media
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Tracking Discourse on Social Media
Archives Unleashed: Web Archive HackathonToronto, Ontario
Team Critical Load Average
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Two events:
● Charlie Hebdo shooting (Jan 7, 2015)● Bataclan attack (Nov 13, 2015)
Two social media sites:
● Reddit● Twitter
TRACKING DISCOURSE ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Four approaches:
● Attention span● Information flow● Topic modeling● Network analysis
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REDDIT COMMENT:
TWEET:
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REDDIT DATA
~50M comments a month on Reddit
13M comments the week following Hebdo shooting
25M comments the week following Bataclan attack
48,840 comments about the Hebdo shooting
110,520 comments about the Bataclan attack
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6,964,831 bataclan tweets (english, nov. 13 - nov. 19)
4,280,030 hebdo tweets (english, jan. 7 - jan 13)
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All our data
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Use ALL available resources
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60GB of JSON -> 1GB of txt
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Attention on social media
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Longitudinal Analysis (spread of information/misinformation)
(http://www.cs.odu.edu/~anwala/files/temp/archivesUnleashedHackathon/Bataclan_Twitter.html)
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Longitudinal Analysis (evolution of conversation)
day 1 day 2 day 3 day 4 day 5 day 6 day 7
(http://www.cs.odu.edu/~anwala/files/temp/archivesUnleashedHackathon/Bataclan_Twitter.html)
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Topic Modeling
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Topic Modeling
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NETWORK ANALYSIS: Word co-occurrence pattern for Charlie Hebdo
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NETWORK ANALYSIS: Word co-occurrence pattern for Bataclan
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FURTHER RESEARCH
● Longer time spans● Other types of events● Categorization (hashtags or subreddits)
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This project brought to you by Team Critical Load Average:
Alexander Nwala, Old Dominion UniversityAllison Hegel, UCLAFederico Nanni, University of BolognaJonathan Armoza, NYUKelsey Utne, Cornell UniversityNick Ruest, York UniversityYu Xu, USC