And of course, analysis of tweets shows just how polite we Canadians are! http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/01/07/polite-canadian-study-tweets-mcmaster_n_8935540.html
Jim Jim Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology University of Winnipeg 204-786-9757 Room 4L41A (4th Floor Lockhart) www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark<http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark> From: Carol DeVolder [mailto:devoldercar...@gmail.com] Sent: January-13-17 6:30 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Has Anyone Done a Content & Stylistic Analysis of Tweets? These showed up in my Facebook feed: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/06/upshot/how-to-know-what-donald-trump-really-cares-about-look-at-who-hes-insulting.html?_r=0 http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/ On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu<mailto:m...@nyu.edu>> wrote: This is a follow-up to my original post and Claudia's response because of new information. On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:06:07 -0800, Claudia Stanny wrote: I haven't seen an analysis other than the examination of the originating device to determine "true" authorship (V himself on an android or an underling on an iPhone). I'm sure a content analysis can't be far behind, if only from the literary types who use this type of analysis to guess at authorship. There is a literature on this analysis among Shakespeare scholars and Biblical scholars (authorship of different books0. The latest issue of "Psychological Methods" is a special issue devoted to "Big Data in Psychology" (big data is the current fad in "Data Science") and one of the articles is relevant to my original question of whether there was research on the analysis of the content of Tweets. The following reference and abstract describes research that focused on change in emotional content of Tweets from before and after violent incidents on college campuses. Interestingly, it uses Pennebaker's LIWC in addition to statistical analyses. For those who are interested, here's some info: Tweeting negative emotion: An investigation of Twitter data in the aftermath of violence on college campuses.Jones, N. M.; Wojcik, S. P.; Sweeting, J.; & Silver, R. C. Psychological Methods, Vol 21(4), Dec 2016, 526-541. doi: 10.1037/met0000099 Studying communities impacted by traumatic events is often costly, requires swift action to enter the field when disaster strikes, and may be invasive for some traumatized respondents. Typically, individuals are studied after the traumatic event with no baseline data against which to compare their postdisaster responses. Given these challenges, we used longitudinal Twitter data across 3 case studies to examine the impact of violence near or on college campuses in the communities of Isla Vista, CA, Flagstaff, AZ, and Roseburg, OR, compared with control communities, between 2014 and 2015. To identify users likely to live in each community, we sought Twitter accounts local to those communities and downloaded tweets of their respective followers. Tweets were then coded for the presence of event-related negative emotion words using a computerized text analysis method (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, LIWC). In Case Study 1, we observed an increase in postevent negative emotion expression among sampled followers after mass violence, and show how patterns of response appear differently based on the timeframe under scrutiny. In Case Study 2, we replicate the pattern of results among users in the control group from Case Study 1 after a campus shooting in that community killed 1 student. In Case Study 3, we replicate this pattern in another group of Twitter users likely to live in a community affected by a mass shooting. We discuss conducting trauma-related research using Twitter data and provide guidance to researchers interested in using Twitter to answer their own research questions in this domain. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) So, I guess the real question is whether anyone is doing a LIWC analysis of Voldemort's tweets? I'd suggest folks write up a research proposal to get some grant money to do this research if it isn't being done but I have a feeling that anyone suggesting such research will probably be gulaged after you know who takes over. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu<mailto:m...@nyu.edu> P.S. Maybe out Canadian colleagues can do a LIWC analysis of tweets before and after the election, eh? ;-) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: devoldercar...@gmail.com<mailto:devoldercar...@gmail.com>. 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