On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 10:14:49 -0800, Gerald L. Peterson wrote:
It IS a fascinating world., that of tweets. I would assume that various
research and marketing firms do big data analyses of tweets. It would
seem to
offer rich possibilities to also explore the issues you highlight here
as well
as the spread of rumors, emotional contagion, and source factors such
as those
from celebrities, those hi and low social status, etc. I wonder if the
Survey
Research center at U. Michigan is doing anything interesting along
these lines.
Maybe some tipsters will have connections?
I don't have any connection to the SRC but a search of their website and
a more general google search does not provide any hits involving tweets
or twitter. It is possible that there is such research that hasn't been
published yet or, if published, is in another language. There is a
paper
the examines tweets and other data from the "Great East Japan
Earthquake"
and though it is unaffiliated with the SRC it does cite an SRC
publication
that reports a survey of the people affected by the earthquake but the
paper is in Japanese. The original article is available here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290000901_Behaviour_Analysis_Using_Tweet_Data_and_geo-tag_Data_in_a_Natural_Disaster
The SRC report in the reference list is identified as "Survey Research
Center 2011" and a weblink is provided to the report. So, if you can
read Japanese, one might be able to figure out if the SRC used tweet
data in this instance.
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
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