Gargiulo, F, Bindi, J and Apolloni, A. 2016. Data from: The topology of a discussion: the #occupy case. [Online]. Dryad. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q1h04
Gargiulo, F, Bindi, J and Apolloni, A. Data from: The topology of a discussion: the #occupy case [Internet]. Dryad; 2016. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q1h04
Gargiulo, F, Bindi, J and Apolloni, A (2016). Data from: The topology of a discussion: the #occupy case. [Data Collection]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q1h04
Description
Introduction: We analyse a large sample of the Twitter activity that developed around the social movement 'Occupy Wall Street', to study the complex interactions between the human communication activity and the semantic content of a debate. Methods: We use a network approach based on the analysis of the bipartite graph @Users-#Hashtags and of its projections: the 'semantic network', whose nodes are hashtags, and the 'users interest network', whose nodes are users. In the first instance, we find out that discussion topics (#hashtags) present a high structural heterogeneity, with a relevant role played by the semantic hubs that are responsible to guarantee the continuity of the debate. In the users’ case, the self-organisation process of users’ activity, leads to the emergence of two classes of communicators: the 'professionals' and the 'amateurs'. Results: Both the networks present a strong community structure, based on the differentiation of the semantic topics, and a high level of structural robustness when certain sets of topics are censored and/or accounts are removed. Conclusions: By analysing the characteristics of the dynamical networks we can distinguish three phases of the discussion about the movement. Each phase corresponds to a specific moment of the movement: from declaration of intent, organisation and development and the final phase of political reactions. Each phase is characterised by the presence of prototypical #hashtags in the discussion.
Keywords
Data capture method | Aggregation |
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Date (Date published in a 3rd party system) | 26 August 2016 |
Language(s) of written materials | English |
Data Creators | Gargiulo, F, Bindi, J and Apolloni, A |
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LSHTM Faculty/Department | Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases |
Participating Institutions | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom |
Date Deposited | 28 Aug 2020 08:58 |
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Last Modified | 28 Aug 2020 09:30 |
Publisher | Dryad |