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与别不同的小世界:新守门人和对推特政治信息的过滤

Small Worlds with a Difference: New Gatekeepers and the Filtering of Political Information on Twitter
课程网址: http://videolectures.net/acmwebsci2011_juergens_gatekeepers/  
主讲教师: Pascal Jürgens
开课单位: 美因茨大学
开课时间: 2011-07-19
课程语种: 英语
中文简介:
关于社交网络平台的政治讨论是越来越重要的政治信息来源, 是交换意见的机会, 也是媒体的热门报价来源。我们分析了2009年德国大选前在微博上的政治沟通, 在交流政治信息和意见的基础上, 提取了一个有针对性的用户互动网络。与以往研究的预期一致, 由此产生的网络展示了小世界的属性, 有利于快速、高效的信息传播。我们接着证明, 高度连通的节点, 小世界网络的特点, 能够对网络内传递的信息产生强大的选择性影响。我们使用基于熵的度量来识别这些新的守门人及其对信息流的影响。最后, 我们对他们的政治信息的输入和输出进行分析。事实表明, 新守门员和普通用户都倾向于根据自己的个人喜好在微博上过滤政治内容。因此, 我们表明, 推特上的政治沟通同时高度依赖少数用户, 在网络结构中处于关键地位, 并因自身的政治观点而有偏见。
课程简介: Political discussions on social network platforms represent an increasingly relevant source of political information, an opportunity for the exchange of opinions and a popular source of quotes for media outlets. We analyzed political communication on Twitter during the run-up to the German general election of 2009 by extracting a directed network of user interactions based on the exchange of political information and opinions. In consonance with expectations from previous research, the resulting network exhibits small-world properties, lending itself to fast and efficient information diffusion. We go on to demonstrate that precisely the highly connected nodes, characteristic for small-world networks, are in a position to exert strong, selective influence on the information passed within the network. We use a metric based on entropy to identify these New Gatekeepers and their impact on the information flow. Finally, we perform an analysis of their input and output of political messages. It is shown that both the New Gatekeepers and ordinary users tend to filter political content on Twitter based on their personal preferences. Thus, we show that political communication on Twitter is at the same time highly dependent on a small number of users, critically positioned in the structure of the network, as well as biased by their own political perspectives.
关 键 词: 语义网; 政治讨论社会网络平台; 政治观点
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最后编审: 2020-06-06:魏雪琼(课程编辑志愿者)
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