Measuring Network Structure Metrics as a Proxy for Socio-political Activity in Social Media

Mwanza, Selvas and Suleman, Hussein (2017) Measuring Network Structure Metrics as a Proxy for Socio-political Activity in Social Media, Proceedings of International Workshop on Data Mining in Politics, 12 December 2017, New Orleans, USA, IEEE.

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Abstract

Social surveys have been used by researchers and policy makers as an essential tool for understanding social and political activities in society. Social media has introduced a new way of capturing data from large numbers of people. Unlike surveys, social media deliver data more rapidly and cheaply. In this paper, we aim to rapidly identify socio-political activity in South Africa using proxy data from social media. We measure and analyse scalar properties of a network created by user interactions on Twitter. Our experimental results show that network diameter and reciprocity have statistical significance in determining socio-political activity.

Item Type:	Conference paper
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Social Media, Social Networks Analysis, RDF Graphs, Socio-political, Network Metrics
Subjects:	Information systems > Information retrieval
Date Deposited:	25 Nov 2017
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2019 15:31
URI:	http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1224

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