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Using language to save the world: interactions between society, behaviour and social media
1. Using language to save the world:
interactions between society, behaviour and
social media
Dr. Diana Maynard
University of Sheffield, UK
27 July 2018, GESIS, Cologne
2. Twitter Fun Facts
• 500 million tweets sent per day
• 24% of all male internet users use Twitter (vs 21% of
women)
• 37% of Twitter users are 18-29
• 25% of Twitter users are 30-49
9. Top 10 most followed Twitter users
2017 2015 2013
Katy Perry Katy Perry Katy Perry
Justin Bieber Justin Bieber Justin Bieber
Barack Obama Taylor Swift Lady Gaga
Taylor Swift Barack Obama Barack Obama
Rihanna Youtube Taylor Swift
Ellen de Generes Lady Gaga YouTube
Lady Gaga Rihanna Britney Spears
Youtube Ellen de Generes Rihanna
Justin Timberlake Twitter Instagram
Twitter Justin Timberlake Justin Timberlake
15. People don’t write “properly”
l Grundman:politics makes #climatechange scientific issue,people
don’t like knowitall rational voice tellin em wat 2do
l Want to solve the problem of #ClimateChange? Just #vote for a
#politician! Poof! Problem gone! #sarcasm #TVP #99%
l Human Caused #ClimateChange is a Monumental Scam!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiX792kNQeE … F**k yes!!
Lying to us like MOFO's Tax The Air We Breath! F**k Them!
l The last people I will listen2 about guns r those that know
nothing about them&politicians who live in states w/strictest
gun laws #cali #ny
22. 2
2
Ecuador, 7.8 earthquake , April 2017, ~700 people
die
Droughts, affecting 60 million in 34 countries
Maxwell, California, Feb 2017
Portugal, forest fires, 64 confirmed deaths, Jun 2017
Manchester, May 2017, 22 dead
Haiti, Hurricane Matthew, Oct 2016,
~500 people died, farming devastated
29. Behaviour Analysis
• Based on the assumption that users in different behavioural
stages communicate differently (different emotions,
directives, etc.)
Pajarito @lindopajarito . 2h
Our building needs 40% of all energy consumed in Switzerland! L
DJPajarito @DJPajaritoGenial . 12h
I'm so proud when I remember to save energy and I know
however small it's helping.
Desirability: Negative sentiment (expressing personal
frustration- anger/sadness)
Buzz: Positive sentiment (happiness/joy). I/we + present tense
HotelPajarito @HotelPajarito . 18h
Join us today today to switch of a light for EH! J
Invitation: Positive sentiment (happy) + use of vocatives
30. • How do people talk about elections and political
events?
• How do the MPs talk about different topics?
• How does the public respond to them?
Social media and politics
33. Parties / themes co-occurrence
UK economy
Europe
Tax and revenue
NHS
Borders and Immigration
Scotland
Employment
Community and society
Public health
Media and communications
LabourPartyCandidate
LabourPartyMP
ConservativePartyCandidate
ConservativePartyMP
UKIPCandidate
OtherMP
SNPCandidate
GreenPartyCandidate
LiberalDemocratsCandidate
SNPOther
34. Twits, twats and twaddle:
analysis of hate speech towards politicians
35. Online abuse
• Puts people off debating online
• Puts people off becoming
politicians
• Seems to be getting worse
• Might be particularly bad for
particular groups (females, ethnic
minorities, LGBT etc)
"I am seriously considering
whether or not to stand
next time"
"My staff try not to let
me go out alone"
"Misogynist comments,
sexual abuse … My
children saw this"
"death threats"
60. Finding abusive terms
nigger
witch
homo
God botherer
• 404 abusive terms collected
• But only annotated when
used in specific situations
shut up
f**k you
Uncivil language
idiot
kill
Threats die
Obscene nouns
cunt
twat
rape
Racist and
bigoted language
62. Did the abuse get worse?
There was more abuse in 2017 than in 2015
20172015
63. Who got the abuse in 2015?
• Men got more abuse then women
• Conservatives got more abuse than Labour
64. Who got the abuse in 2015?
A small number of
prominent MPs
65. What about in 2017?
The same thing happened (but to different people)
66. Check out the interactive version!
http://demos.gate.ac.uk/politics/buzzfeed/sunburst.html
67. Let’s look a bit deeper
• Did men get more abuse
because more men are
Conservatives?
• Did more prominent
people get more abuse
just because they got
more tweets?
• Structural equation
modelling using the
Lavaan package in R
68. • Analysing social media is super interesting
• But super tricky (even for humans)
• Need good underlying language analysis tailored to
social media, before attemptinganything else
• Remember that correlation ≠ causation
Conclusions
69. Some useful links
• GATE http://gate.ac.uk
• GateCloud https://cloud.gate.ac.uk
• Come on a GATE training course!
• Brexit study blog post from NESTA http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/network-
analysis-top-eu-referendum-tweeters
• Brexit study blog posts from Sheffield
http://gate4ugc.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Brexit
• UK elections monitor http://gate.ac.uk/projects/pft
• Blog post on abuse of MPs
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/twitter-abuse-of-mps-during-the-
election-doubled-after-the
• COMRADES project on social media during disasters
http://gate.ac.uk/projects/comrades