Multilingual use of Twitter: Social networks at the language frontier
Multilingual use of Twitter: Social networks at the language frontier
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Twitter 的多语言使用：语言前沿的社交网络
DOI：
10.1016/j.chb.2014.05.005
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发表时间：
2014
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J. Golbeck
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作者：
Irene Eleta;J. Golbeck
社交媒体是国际性的：来自不同文化和语言背景的用户正在生成和分享内容。但语言障碍出现在网上交流的环境中。在寻求语言多样性和普遍接入的过程中，国际互联网的愿景在语言边界上遇到了障碍。在微博网站Twitter上，信息传播跨越了语言和国家。侨民、少数民族、散居社区和语言学习者在形成跨国网络、建立跨国界社会联系方面发挥着重要作用。本研究探讨了多语言Twitter用户如何在其社交网络中的语言群体之间进行调解，重点关注社会联系和语言选择。本研究基于多语言用户社交网络中语言群体之间的联系模式对网络类型进行了原始分类。此外，它适用于建模的网络因素的影响，在用户的语言选择的新颖的想法。研究结果可以为寻求促进全球连通性和国际通信流的社交媒体平台的设计提供信息。
Social media is international: users from different cultures and language backgrounds are generating and sharing content. But language barriers emerge in the communication landscape online. In the quest for language diversity and universal access, the vision of a cosmopolitan Internet has stumbled over the language frontier.In the microblogging site Twitter, information spreads across languages and countries. Expatriates, minorities, diaspora communities, and language learners play an important role in forming transnational networks, creating social ties across borders. This research investigates how multilingual users of Twitter mediate between language groups in their social network, focusing on social connections and language choice.This research contributes an original classification of network types based on the patterns of connections between language groups within the social networks of multilingual users. Also, it applies the novel idea of modeling the influence of network factors in the language choices of the user. The results can inform the design of social media platforms seeking to foster global connectivity and international communication flows.