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Blogs as a collective war diary

Mark, Gloria, Bagdouri, Mossaab, Palen, Leysia, Martin, James, Al-Ani, Ban, Anderson, Kenneth·2012·Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
DOI 10.1145/2145204.2145215
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Disaster-related research in human-centered computing has typically focused on the shorter-term, emergency period of a disaster event, whereas effects of some crises are long-term, lasting years. Social media archived on the Internet provides researchers the opportunity to examine societal reactions to a disaster over time. In this paper we examine how blogs written during a protracted conflict might reflect a collective view of the event. The sheer amount of data originating from the Internet about a significant event poses a challenge to researchers; we employ topic modeling and pronoun analysis as methods to analyze such large-scale data. First, we discovered that blog war topics temporally tracked the actual, measurable violence in the society suggesting that blog content can be an indicator of the health or state of the affected population. We also found that people exhibited a collective identity when they blogged about war, as evidenced by a higher use of first-person plural pronouns compared to blogging on other topics. Blogging about daily life decreased as violence in the society increased; when violence waned, there was a resurgence of daily life topics, potentially illustrating how a society returns to normalcy.

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Authors
Mark, G., Bagdouri, M., Palen, L., Martin, J., Al-Ani, B., & Anderson, K.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Irvine (US)
  • University of Colorado Boulder (US)
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Venue
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Publisher
ACM
Published
2012-02-11
Pages
37-46
DOI
10.1145/2145204.2145215
OpenAlex
W1982401924
Cited by
51
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4
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FWCI
35.20
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
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www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Background (vor)
Locations
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Science Foundation
Topics
  • Social Sciences › General Social Sciences › Computational and Text Analysis Methods
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health via Writing
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Public Relations and Crisis Communication
Keywords
blogs, war, collective identity, first-person plural pronouns, topic modeling, social media, violence, return to normalcy

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