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Language Limitations in Rumor Research? Comparing French and English Tweets Sent During the 2015 Paris Attacks
Tom Wilson
Stephanie A. Stanek
Emma S. Spiro
Kate Starbird
Tina Comes, F.B., Chihab Hanachi, Matthieu Lauras, Aurélie Montarnal, eds
The ubiquity of social media facilitates widespread participation in crises. As individuals converge online to understand a developing situation, rumors can emerge. Little is currently known about how online rumoring behavior varies by language. Exploring a rumor from the 2015 Paris Attacks, we investigate Twitter rumoring behaviors across two languages: French, the primary language of the affected population; and English, the dominant language of Internet communication. We utilize mixed methods to qualitatively code and quantitatively analyze rumoring behaviors across French and English language tweets. Most interestingly, temporal engagement in the rumor varies across languages, but proportions of tweets affirming and denying a rumor are very similar. Analyzing tweet deletions and retweet counts, we find slight (but not significant) differences between languages. This work offers insight into potential limitations of previous research of online rumoring, which often focused exclusively on English language content, and demonstrates the importance of considering language in future work.
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url:http://idl.iscram.org/show.php?record=2042
citekey:TomWilson_etal2017
citation:Tom Wilson, Stephanie A. Stanek, Emma S. Spiro, & Kate Starbird. (2017). Language Limitations in Rumor Research? Comparing French and English Tweets Sent During the 2015 Paris Attacks. In eds Aurélie Montarnal Matthieu Lauras Chihab Hanachi F. B. Tina Comes (Ed.), Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management (pp. 546-553). Albi, France: Iscram.
2017
ConferencePaper
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social media
rumoring, language
crisis informatics
information diffusion
file:http://idl.iscram.org/files/tomwilson/2017/2042_TomWilson_etal2017.pdf
Iscram
English
2411-3387
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management
2017
546
553
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