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Author | Fedor Vitiugin; Carlos Castillo | ||||
Title | Comparison of Social Media in English and Russian During Emergencies and Mass Convergence Events | Type | Conference Article | ||
Year | 2019 | Publication | Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management | Abbreviated Journal | Iscram 2019 |
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Keywords | Social Media, Crisis Informatics, Twitter, Information Extraction. | ||||
Abstract | Twitter is used for spreading information during crisis events. In this paper, we first retrieve event-related information posted in English and Russian during six disasters and sports events that received wide media coverage in both languages, using an adaptive information filtering method for automating the collection of about 100 000 messages. We then compare the contents of these messages in terms of 17 informational and linguistic features using a difference in differences approach. Our results suggest that posts in each language are focused on different types of information. For instance, almost 50% of the popular people mentioned in these messages appear exclusively in either the English messages or the Russian messages, but not both. Our results also suggest differences in the adoption of platform mechanics during crises between Russian-speaking and English-speaking users. This has important implications for data collection during crises, which is almost always focused on a single language. |
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Address | Independent;Universitat Pompeu Fabra | ||||
Corporate Author | Thesis | ||||
Publisher | Iscram | Place of Publication | Valencia, Spain | Editor | Franco, Z.; González, J.J.; Canós, J.H. |
Language | English | Summary Language | English | Original Title | |
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ISSN | 2411-3387 | ISBN | 978-84-09-10498-7 | Medium | |
Track | T8- Social Media in Crises and Conflicts | Expedition | Conference | 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2019) | |
Notes | Approved | no | |||
Call Number | ISCRAM @ idladmin @ | Serial | 1916 | ||
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