Online Collective Action - Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media
von: Nitin Agarwal, Merlyna Lim, Rolf T. Wigand
Springer-Verlag, 2014
ISBN: 9783709113400
Sprache: Englisch
243 Seiten, Download: 5470 KB
Format: PDF, auch als Online-Lesen
| Preface | 6 | ||
| Glossary | 12 | ||
| Acknowledgments | 18 | ||
| Contents | 20 | ||
| List of Contributors | 22 | ||
| Part I: Concepts, Theories, and Methodologies | 24 | ||
| Sentiment Analysis in Social Media | 25 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 25 | ||
| 2 Sentiment Analysis | 26 | ||
| 2.1 Behind the Scenes | 28 | ||
| 3 Sentiment Analysis in Social Media | 30 | ||
| 4 Datasets | 33 | ||
| 5 Sentiment Analysis Tools | 34 | ||
| 6 Summary and Conclusions | 35 | ||
| References | 36 | ||
| Emotion Analysis on Social Media: Natural Language Processing Approaches and Applications | 40 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 40 | ||
| 2 Concepts and Motivations | 43 | ||
| 3 Approaches to Identifying Emotion Components | 46 | ||
| 3.1 Emotional Expression | 46 | ||
| 3.2 Emotion Holder | 48 | ||
| 3.3 Emotion Topic | 49 | ||
| 3.4 Need of Emotion Co-reference | 49 | ||
| 3.5 Results | 51 | ||
| 4 Application in Emotion Tracking | 52 | ||
| 4.1 Tracking Bloggers´ Emotions | 52 | ||
| 4.2 Sentiment Event Tracking | 53 | ||
| 5 Conclusions | 54 | ||
| References | 55 | ||
| Discovering Flow of Sentiment and Transient Behavior of Online Social Crowd: An Analysis Through Social Insects | 59 | ||
| 1 Background and Introduction | 60 | ||
| 2 Definitions, Terminologies and Mathematical Interpretations | 62 | ||
| 3 Pheromone Communication and Social Network: Functional Analogy | 62 | ||
| 4 Presentation of Data Snippets and Analysis with Proposed Model | 64 | ||
| 4.1 Proposed Algorithm and Analysis | 65 | ||
| 4.2 Validating the Flow of Information | 70 | ||
| 4.3 Post-Simulation Experience and Visualization | 73 | ||
| 5 Conclusion and Further Scope of Research | 76 | ||
| References | 76 | ||
| Collective Emotions Online | 78 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 79 | ||
| 2 Data | 80 | ||
| 2.1 Datasets | 80 | ||
| 2.2 Algorithms | 81 | ||
| 3 Cluster Distribution | 82 | ||
| 4 Life-Span of the BBC Forum and Digg Communities | 86 | ||
| 5 Users Impact on the Discussion in the BBC Forum | 88 | ||
| 6 Conclusions | 91 | ||
| References | 91 | ||
| Evaluation of Media-Based Social Interactions: Linking Collective Actions to Media Types, Applications, and Devices in Social ... | 94 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 95 | ||
| 2 Related Work | 96 | ||
| 3 A Human-Readable Technique for Representing and Evaluating Social Interactions | 97 | ||
| 3.1 Social Interactions in the Mechner Language | 97 | ||
| 3.2 Behavioral Contingencies Representation | 98 | ||
| 3.3 Behavioral Contingency Measurement | 100 | ||
| 3.4 Experiences from Applying our Technique | 101 | ||
| 4 A Method for Representing and Measuring Social Interactions | 102 | ||
| 4.1 Capturing | 102 | ||
| 4.2 Preparation | 102 | ||
| 4.3 Representation | 103 | ||
| 4.4 Measurement | 104 | ||
| 4.5 Interpretation | 104 | ||
| 4.6 Specialization | 104 | ||
| 5 Representing and Measuring Social Interactions on Facebook | 105 | ||
| 5.1 Data Capturing and Preparation | 105 | ||
| 5.2 Representing and Measuring Social Interactions | 106 | ||
| 5.3 Media Types Within Social Interactions | 108 | ||
| 5.4 Web Applications and Mobile Devices Within Media-Based Social Interactions | 109 | ||
| 5.5 Summarization of Results | 110 | ||
| 6 Final Remarks | 111 | ||
| References | 112 | ||
| Part II: Applications | 115 | ||
| The Studies of Blogs and Online Communities: From Information to Knowledge and Action | 116 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 116 | ||
| 2 Conceptual Background | 118 | ||
| 3 Methodology and Selection Criteria | 121 | ||
| 3.1 Development of the Selection Criteria | 122 | ||
| 3.2 Selecting a Blog Search Engine | 122 | ||
| 3.3 Search String | 122 | ||
| 3.4 Building the Database | 123 | ||
| 3.5 Cleaning the Database | 123 | ||
| 3.6 Developing Blog Attributes (Primary Analysis) | 124 | ||
| 3.7 Data Analysis and Network Mapping | 124 | ||
| 4 Overview of Results | 125 | ||
| 4.1 Mapping of the Information Dissemination within the Blog Space | 125 | ||
| 4.2 Mapping the Semantic Association and Knowledge Creation in Blogs | 128 | ||
| 4.3 Mapping of the Impact of Information Dissemination and the Emergence of Community Relationships | 130 | ||
| 5 Conclusions and Managerial Implications | 132 | ||
| References | 135 | ||
| Using Contemporary Collective Action to Understand the Use of Computer-Mediated Communication in Virtual Citizen Science | 137 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 137 | ||
| 2 The Integration of Computer-Mediated Communication into Citizen Science | 138 | ||
| 3 The Zooniverse: An Illustration of Virtual Citizen Science | 139 | ||
| 4 Online Collective Action and Virtual Citizen Science | 142 | ||
| 5 Conclusion | 146 | ||
| References | 147 | ||
| Socially Networked Citizen Science and the Crowd-Sourcing of Pro-Environmental Collective Actions | 149 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 150 | ||
| 2 The Transition from First Generation to ``Next Generation´´ Citizen Science to Support Ecological Research, Conservation, an... | 152 | ||
| 3 YardMap as an Example of a Citizen Science Practice Network | 154 | ||
| 4 The Added Value of Geocollaboration Tools | 154 | ||
| 5 What Game Theoretic Models and Behavioral Games Say About Human Potential for Collective Action | 156 | ||
| 6 How Proximate Mechanisms Can Engender Cooperation in Citizen Science Practice Networks | 158 | ||
| 7 Designing Citizen Science Practice Networks to Support Pro-Environmental Behavior | 161 | ||
| 8 Shifting Attitudes, Behaviors, and Social Norms within Electronic Practice Networks | 164 | ||
| References | 165 | ||
| Part III: Case Studies | 169 | ||
| The Spanish ``Indignados´´ Movement: Time Dynamics, Geographical Distribution, and Recruitment Mechanisms | 170 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 171 | ||
| 2 Network Theory in a Nutshell | 172 | ||
| 3 Data Collection and Modelling | 175 | ||
| 4 Methods and Findings | 177 | ||
| 4.1 Time Dynamics: Movement Growth and Saturation | 177 | ||
| 4.2 Spatial Dynamics: Communities and Geography | 180 | ||
| 4.3 Recruitment Dynamics: The Activation of Users | 183 | ||
| 4.3.1 The Network Position of Recruitment Seeds | 183 | ||
| 4.3.2 The Network Position of Information Spreaders | 184 | ||
| 5 Conclusions | 188 | ||
| Appendix: Protests Organizers | 190 | ||
| References | 190 | ||
| The Strength of Tweet Ties | 193 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 193 | ||
| 2 Background | 195 | ||
| 3 Social Movement Theory, Framing, and Twitter | 196 | ||
| 4 Data, Methods, and Analysis | 202 | ||
| 5 Conclusions | 206 | ||
| References | 207 | ||
| The Arab Spring in North Africa: Still Winter in Morocco? | 210 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 210 | ||
| 2 Digital Divide and Collective Action Frames | 211 | ||
| 3 Methods | 214 | ||
| 4 The Context: The Moroccan Blogosphere | 215 | ||
| 5 Online Collective Action in the Blogoma | 216 | ||
| 6 Influencing Offline Politics and Social Movements | 219 | ||
| 7 Conclusion | 221 | ||
| References | 222 | ||
| Online and Offline Advocacy for American Hijabis: Organizational and Organic Tactical Configurations | 225 | ||
| 1 Introduction | 226 | ||
| 2 Framing Organic and Organizational Collective Action | 227 | ||
| 3 The Tactic Is the Technology | 229 | ||
| 4 Methods | 229 | ||
| 5 Target Populations | 230 | ||
| 6 Frames of the Hijabis Fashion Community | 230 | ||
| 7 Confluence of Frames | 232 | ||
| 8 Hijab in the Workplace | 234 | ||
| 9 Tactical Repertoires | 236 | ||
| 10 Conclusion | 237 | ||
| Works Cited | 238 | ||
| Editor Biographies | 241 |