Shahan Ali Memon
Rohith Krishnan Pillai
Yelena Mejova
Ingmar Weber
ABSTRACT
Is it possible to "hack" an image of an international entity by driving international and domestic media? Here, we present an image/brand monitoring tool for a country, Qatar, which presents an overview of the contexts and references to media in which it is mentioned on social media. Tracking dozens of languages, this tool allows a global understanding of the perceptions and concerns Twitter users associate with Qatar, and which mainstream media may be driving these sentiments.
- Ruth García-Gavilanes, Yelena Mejova, and Daniele Quercia. 2014. Twitter ain't without frontiers: Economic, Social, and Cultural Boundaries in International Communication. In CSCW. 1511--1522. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Britney Harris. 2013. Diplomacy 2.0: The Future of Social Media in Nation Branding. Exchange: The Journal of Public Diplomacy 4 (2013), 3. Issue 1.Google Scholar
- Haewoon Kwak and Jisun An. 2014. A First Look at Global News Coverage of Disasters by Using the GDELT Dataset. In SocInfo. 300--308.Google Scholar
- Jacob Ratkiewicz, Michael Conover, Mark Meiss, Bruno Goncalves, Snehal Patil, Alessandro Flammini, and Filippo Menczer. 2011. Truthy: mapping the spread of astroturf in microblog streams. In WWW. 249--252. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Bogdan State, Patrick Park, Ingmar Weber, and Michael Macy. 2015. The Mesh of Civilizations in the Global Network of Digital Communication. PLOS ONE 10 (05 2015), 1--9.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Public Perception of a Country: Exploring Tweets About Qatar
Recommendations
Lesser evil? Public opinion on regulating fake news in Japan, South Korea, and Thailand – A three-country comparison
AbstractThis study quantitatively examines and compares public opinion on regulating fake news, and factors affecting the opinion in three Asian countries: Japan, South Korea, and Thailand. Based on the third-person effect, it is hypothesised ...
Highlights- We examine public opinion on regulating fake news in Japan, S. Korea, and Thailand.
Journalists’ Use of Social Media to Infer Public Opinion: The Citizens’ Perspective
Journalists increasingly use social media data to infer and report public opinion by quoting social media posts, identifying trending topics, and reporting general sentiment. In contrast to traditional approaches of inferring public opinion, citizens are ...
The use of Facebook for political commentary in South Africa
The use of the Internet, and especially social media networks, is becoming increasingly relevant for 21stcentury politics, not only for political campaigning purposes, but also as a platform to encourage the public to engage in political discourse. This ...
Comments