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How to get into the news with Social network analysis
How to get into the news with Social network analysis
Andreas KaltenbrunnerEurecat | Barcelona Media
databeersbcn, Jul 22, Barcelona
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How to get in into the news with SNA
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Recipe to get in the news
1. Find an interesting SN Dataset 2. Main ingredient: Do some Ranking3. Find a catchy title4. Publish on Archive5. Wait
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- Barcelona Media- Barcelona Digital- Ascamm- Cetemmsa- CTM
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Computational Social Science
Social Media Research Group Digital Humanities Department @ Barcelona Media | Eurecat
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Example 1: Who is the best Tennis player in history
Radicchi F (2011) Who Is the Best Player Ever? A Complex Network Analysis of the History of Professional Tennis. PLoS ONE 6(2): e17249.
Generate a SN using matches played by professional tennis players between 1968 and 2010
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Example 1: Tennis players
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Example 2: Sister Cities
Kaltenbrunner A., Aragón P., Laniado D., Volkovich Y., (2013) Not all paths lead to Rome: Analysing the network of sister cities, IWSOS 2013 - 7th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- Analyse the social network of cities
- Group by countries
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Example 2: Sister Cities
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Example 2: Sister Cities
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Distance between cities does not matter => death of distance
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Example 3: Biographies on Wikipedia
Eom Y., Aragón P., Laniado D., Kaltenbrunner A., Vigna S., Shepelyansky D. L. (2015) Interactions of cultures and top people of Wikipedia from ranking of 24 language editions,PLoS ONE, 10, 3, 2015, e0114825
Aragón P., Kaltenbrunner A., Laniado D., Volkovich Y. (2012) Biographical Social Networks on Wikipedia - A cross-cultural study of links that made history,WikiSym'12- 8th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, Linz, Austria..
- Analyse the hyper-link network of Wikipedia- Rank articles about persons - Compare different language editions
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Ranking for English Wikipedia Ranking in Multiple languages
ΘA is the ranking score of algorithm A;NA is the number of appearances of a given person in
the top100 rank for all editions.
Example 3: Biographies on Wikipedia
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← Network of similar language editions
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Results: Birth place distribution of top ranked biographies
Sum of appearances of historical figures from a given country in the 24 lists of top 100 persons for PageRank.Color changes from zero (white) to 233 for Germany (black).
Overall Western11 editions are not European (AR, FA, HE, HI, JA, KO, MS, TH, TR,VI, ZH)
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Overlap with alternative rankings:
Hart’s Influential personas in History: 43%
Top 100 people Pantheon MIT list: 44%
Not bigger than Jesus, but relevant from an encyclopedic point of view
Example 3: Biographies on Wikipedia
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For extra impact:
Add minor comment about the relation of the results with a controversial topic
For example - Gender bias- Climate Change- Political Polarisation
Source: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal http://www.smbc-comics.com/
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Number of females in the top 100 PageRank historical figures of different Wikpedia editions
Overall male skewed
Rank
TH PageRank
1 Sirindhorn
2 Bhumibol Adulyadej
3 Sirikit
4 Thaksin Shinawatra
5 Gautama Buddha
6 Adolf Hitler
7 Taksin
8 Queen Victoria
9 Abhisit Vejjajiva
10 Pridi Banomyong
11 Yingluck Shinawatra
12 Galyani Vadhana
13 Srinagarindra
14 J. R. R. Tolkien
15 Samak Sundaravej
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Example 3: Biographies on Wikipedia
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A Final Suggestion:
Do not read the comments!
If you do, do not answer!
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Disclaimer:
Getting in the news does not give you more citations
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