IC2S2 2019 Tutorial by Kyriaki Kalimeri and Yelena Mejova. Overview of theories on values and examples of studies that track values using social media in domains of politics, religion, and nutritional health.
8. Care/Harm: virtues of caring and compassion.
Fairness/Cheating: unfair treatment, inequality, notions of justice.
Loyalty/Betrayal: obligations of group membership, loyalty, vigilance against betrayal.
Authority/Subversion: social order, obligations of hierarchical relationships such as obedience,
respect
Purity/Degradation: physical and spiritual contagion,
virtues of chastity, wholesomeness and control of desires.
Liberty/Oppression: feelings of reactance and resentment people feel toward those who
dominate them and restrict their liberty
12. Personality & Values
Values could be considered a higher level
with respect to Personality Traits.
Moral values determine how and when
dispositions and attitudes towards
interpersonal and intergroup processes
relate with our life stories and narratives.
Personality alone does not suffice to
explain our judgments.
McAdams, D., & Pals, J. (2006). A new big five: Fundamental principles
for an integrative science of personality. American Psychologist , 61 ,
204
13. Motivation
A qualitative and quantitative point of view, allowing us to better
model and understand behaviours, actions, and attitudes towards
social phenomena.
14. Why modeling human values?
Designing Personalised Communication Campaigns
Policy-making
Self-disclosure & Privacy Considerations
Bridging Societal Polarization
Evolution of Values
Machine Ethics
15. Why modeling human values?
Designing Personalised Communication Campaigns
Policy-making
Self-disclosure & Privacy Considerations
Bridging Societal Polarization
Evolution of Values
Machine Ethics
17. CONTROL FRAMING
Many people are concerned about the health of the natural environment. We are
interested in what you think and feel about this issue.
18. INDIVIDUALISTIC FRAMING
Many people around the world are concerned about the health of the natural
environment. We are interested in what you think and feel about this issue. Show your
love for all of humanity and the world in which we live by helping to care for our
vulnerable natural environment. Help to reduce the harm done to the environment by
taking action. By caring for the natural world you are helping to ensure that everyone
around the world gets to enjoy fair access to a sustainable environment. Do the right
thing by preventing the suffering of all life-forms and making sure that no one is denied
their right to a healthy planet. SHOW YOUR COMPASSION.
19. SOCIAL BINDING FRAMING
Many patriotic citizens of the United States are concerned about the health of the natural
environment. We are interested in what you think and feel about this issue. Show you
love your country by joining the fight to protect the purity of America's natural
environment. Take pride in the American tradition of performing one's civic duty by
taking responsibility for yourself and the land you call home. By taking a tougher stance
on protecting the natural environment, you will be honoring all of Creation. Demonstrate
your respect by following the examples of your religious and political leaders who defend
America's natural environment. SHOW YOUR PATRIOTISM!
20. ● Political liberals were consistent in their pro-environmental attitudes across
conditions.
● Political conservatives displayed more pro-environmental attitudes after a binding
moral frame.
Attitudes Towards Climate Change
23. Attitudes Towards Charitable Giving
Perceived donation motivation is stronger for care
and loyalty framing
Moral Framing had NO effects neither on
hypothetical not real donations.
24. Why modeling human values?
Designing Personalised Communication Campaigns
Policy-making
Self-disclosure & Privacy Considerations
Bridging Societal Polarization
Evolution of Values
Machine Ethics
25. Polarized attitudes towards the
poor seem unlikely to be
predicted by political affiliation,
while moral values are more
explanatory.
Attitudes towards the Poor
26. Why modeling human values?
Designing Personalised Communication Campaigns
Policy-making
Self-disclosure & Privacy Considerations
Bridging Societal Polarization
Evolution of Values
Machine Ethics
28. Privacy, Self-Disclosure & Trust
Individuals differ in the degree to which they desire and value personal control over
information about themselves. (Berscheid, 1977)
There is a negative relationship between the value people place on privacy and
perceptions of control over personal information, which is the very foundation of trust
(Stone, 1983)
29. Privacy, Self-Disclosure & Trust
"But privacy is gone. We gave it up, for no other
reason but the thought that it's useless.
Why don't we protect our rights?"
30. Why modeling human values?
Designing Personalised Communication Campaigns
Policy-making
Self-disclosure & Privacy Considerations
Bridging Societal Polarization
Evolution of Values
Machine Ethics
31. Attitudes towards Vaccination
Recent interventions have focused on
vaccine knowledge and education and
message framing as methods to
change vaccination attitudes.
➔ Short-term success, but some backfire and worsen parental hesitancy.
➔ Temporarily increase vaccination rates but may lead to long-term
dissatisfaction and decreased intention to vaccinate.
32. Attitudes towards Vaccination
Endorsement of harm and fairness -
ideas often emphasized in traditional
vaccine-focused messages - are not
predictive of vaccine hesitancy.
Significant associations of purity and
liberty with hesitancy.
33. Attitudes towards Vaccination
Antivax community:
trusts less the conventional authority
sources (presidency, government, EU)
defends more the traditional religious and
moral values and believe newer lifestyles
contribute to the decline of the society. Total population 1232 participants
34. AV pages are emphasising the value of
“liberty”
PV pages are emphasising the value of
“family”
AV Pages PV Pages
Attitudes towards Vaccination
35. Why modeling human values?
Designing Personalised Communication Campaigns
Policy-making
Self-disclosure & Privacy Considerations
Bridging Societal Polarization
Evolution of Values
Machine Ethics
36. Are Values Changing over Time?
Santos et al. Global Increases in Individualism.
Psychological Science, 2017
Individualism vs. Collectivism reflects the extent to
which social relationships are loose, as
opposed to relationships integrated in strong and
cohesive groups.
Individualism increased 12% worldwide since the
‘60s.
Socioeconomic development had the strongest
effect, explaining between 35% and 58% of the
change in individualism over time.
45. Evolution of Surveying Methods
Online & Crowdsourcing platforms (such as AMT) have been extensively validated
as surveying tools and found to be as trustworthy as the traditional surveying
methods.
54. Evolution of Surveying Methods
Online & Crowdsourcing platforms (such as AMT) have been extensively validated
as surveying tools and found to be as trustworthy as the traditional surveying
methods.
55.
56. Social Media for Surveying
Recruitment of participants is:
★ Faster
★ Scalable
★ Targeted/Customised cohort
★ Relatively limited cost
★ Efficient when monitoring
fast-evolving phenomena such as
crisis-response or health
emergencies.
57. Successful Examples on Facebook
Reached 4 million users & the data were
used for personalization, privacy,
persuasion studies
Likeyouth, 60 thousand users in Italy,
Employed for digital humanity studies such as
youth unemployment & vaccination attitudes
59. Social Media for Research
Alexandra Olteanu, Carlos Castillo, Fernando Diaz, and Emre Kiciman. Social
data: Biases, methodological pitfalls, and ethical boundaries. 2016
60. Social Media as a Surveying Tool
~4,000 participants
Population, Self-selection, and Behavioural biases
Outcome: FB is a valid research tool for administering
demographic and psychometric surveys
BUT do not ignore the intrinsic platform biases.
Kyriaki Kalimeri, Mariano G. Beiro, Andrea Bonanomi, Alessandro Rosina & Ciro Cattuto. Evaluation of Biases in
Self-reported Demographic and Psychometric Information: Traditional versus Facebook-based Surveys
61. Do not ignore the intrinsic platform biases!
No data source is perfect, and every dataset is imperfect
in its own ways.
Social Media as a Surveying Tool
Zeynep Tufekci. Big questions for social media big data:
Representativeness, validity and other methodological
pitfalls. ICWSM, 14:505–514, 2014.
65. Social Media Data as a Reflection of Values
Mobile Apps & Web Searches are greatly informative of
demographics
Moral & Human Values are much harder to predict, STILL,
we get cool insights!
66. Social Media Data as a Reflection of Values
Moral Values
- Care
Schwartz Values
- Conservation
- Tradition
+ Openness
+ Self-Enhancement
Demographics
Low income
Low wealth
Not a Parent
Single
18 to 24 years old
Not a smoker
68. Michael F. Schober, Josh Pasek, Lauren Guggenheim, Cliff Lampe, and
Frederick G. Conrad. Social media analyses for social measurement. Public
Opinion Quarterly, 80(1):180–211, 2016
69. Social media as reflection of values
Michael F. Schober, Josh Pasek,
Lauren Guggenheim, Cliff
Lampe, and Frederick G.
Conrad. Social media analyses
for social measurement. Public
Opinion Quarterly,
80(1):180–211, 2016.
70. Social media as reflection of values
Schober et al. 2016
Initiative
Informed consent
Ability to opt out
Prior consideration
Identity of user
Perceived audience
Size of perceived audience
Social desirability pressure
Potential for manipulation
Time pressure/synchrony
Burden
71. Social media as reflection of values
Schober et al. 2016
Initiative
Informed consent
Ability to opt out
Prior consideration
Identity of user
Perceived audience
Size of perceived audience
Social desirability pressure
Potential for manipulation
Time pressure/synchrony
Burden
xkcd 1390
73. Social media as reflection of values
Schober et al. 2016
Initiative
Informed consent
Ability to opt out
Prior consideration
Identity of user
Perceived audience
Size of perceived audience
Social desirability pressure
Potential for manipulation
Time pressure/synchrony
Burden
Sarah Andersen
74. Social media as reflection of values
Schober et al. 2016
Initiative
Informed consent
Ability to opt out
Prior consideration
Identity of user
Perceived audience
Size of perceived audience
Social desirability pressure
Potential for manipulation
Time pressure/synchrony
Burden
xkcd 632
75. "Botornot: A system to evaluate social bots."
Davis, Clayton Allen, et al. WWW, 2016.
https://botometer.iuni.iu.edu
Ratkiewicz et al WWW, 2011
Truthy project
76. "Botornot: A system to evaluate social bots."
Davis, Clayton Allen, et al. WWW, 2016.
Ratkiewicz et al WWW, 2011
Truthy project
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2843572/computer-scientists-s
ay-meme-research-doesnt-threaten-free-speech.html
78. Social media as reflection of values
Schober et al. 2016
Temporal properties
Population coverage
Topic coverage
Sampled units
Sampling frame
Sampling procedure
Sample size
Relevance to research topic
Granularity of analyses
Data structure
Automatically generated
auxiliary information
79. Social media as reflection of values
Schober et al. 2016
Temporal properties
Population coverage
Topic coverage
Sampled units
Sampling frame
Sampling procedure
Sample size
Relevance to research topic
Granularity of analyses
Data structure
Automatically generated
auxiliary information
xkcd 723
80. Can we predict which of Reddit users in Mental
Health will later post in Suicide Watch?
81. Social media as reflection of values
Schober et al. 2016
Temporal properties
Population coverage
Topic coverage
Sampled units
Sampling frame
Sampling procedure
Sample size
Relevance to research topic
Granularity of analyses
Data structure
Automatically generated
auxiliary information
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-11-14
82.
83. Social media as reflection of values
Schober et al. 2016
Temporal properties
Population coverage
Topic coverage
Sampled units
Sampling frame
Sampling procedure
Sample size
Relevance to research topic
Granularity of analyses
Data structure
Automatically generated
auxiliary information
85. Social media as reflection of values
Schober et al. 2016
Cost to researchers
Research communities
Ethics of consent for use of
data
Ethics review of research
protocol
Analytic approach
Potential for research bias
Evaluating model quality
Adjustments for
non-representativeness
Stability of data source
Ownership of data
Perception of research
enterprise
86. Social media as reflection of values
Schober et al. 2016
Cost to researchers
Research communities
Ethics of consent for use of
data
Ethics review of research
protocol
Analytic approach
Potential for research bias
Evaluating model quality
Adjustments for
non-representativeness
Stability of data source
Ownership of data
Perception of research
enterprise
xkcd 749
87. Social media as reflection of values
Schober et al. 2016
Cost to researchers
Research communities
Ethics of consent for use of
data
Ethics review of research
protocol
Analytic approach
Potential for research bias
Evaluating model quality
Adjustments for
non-representativeness
Stability of data source
Ownership of data
Perception of research
enterprise
xkcd 1838
88. Social media as reflection of values
Schober et al. 2016
Cost to researchers
Research communities
Ethics of consent for use of
data
Ethics review of research
protocol
Analytic approach
Potential for research bias
Evaluating model quality
Adjustments for
non-representativeness
Stability of data source
Ownership of data
Perception of research
enterprise
xkcd 221
89. Social media as reflection of values
Schober et al. 2016
Cost to researchers
Research communities
Ethics of consent for use of
data
Ethics review of research
protocol
Analytic approach
Potential for research bias
Evaluating model quality
Adjustments for
non-representativeness
Stability of data source
Ownership of data
Perception of research
enterprise
xkcd 1998
90. Social media as reflection of values
Politics
Nutrition
Religion
92. Politics
Is the moral rhetoric on Twitter related to violence during protests?
2015 Baltimore protests
A moral tweet: one that is related to one of the moral foundations in Moral
Foundations Theory (annotator agreement Kappa = 0.636 in moral/non-moral)
Train LSTM neural network on 4,800 training tweets, achieve 89.01% accuracy
Moralization in social networks and the
emergence of violence during protests
Mooijman, Hoover, Lin, Ji, Dehghani. Nature Human Behavior 2018
93. Politics
“In terms of incidence ratios, [...] the count of moral tweets on days with violent protests is 1.88 times
that of days with no protests, holding the other variables in the model constant. No such association
was observed for peaceful protest days. ”
Moralization in social networks and the
emergence of violence during protests
Mooijman, Hoover, Lin, Ji, Dehghani. Nature Human Behavior 2018
94. Politics
“An independent variable is said to ‘Granger cause’ a dependent variable when previous values of
the independent variable predict future values of the dependent variable above and beyond
predictions based on past values of the dependent variable alone”
Moralization in social networks and the
emergence of violence during protests
Mooijman, Hoover, Lin, Ji, Dehghani. Nature Human Behavior 2018
95. Politics
“These analyses indicate a bidirectional Granger causal relationship, such that the count of moral
tweets predicts the future count of arrests and the count of arrests predicts the future count of
moral tweets.”
Moralization in social networks and the
emergence of violence during protests
Mooijman, Hoover, Lin, Ji, Dehghani. Nature Human Behavior 2018
96. Politics
2 Survey studies, Example: Charlottesville, VA clashes in August 2017
Study 1: moralization vs. acceptability of using violence
“To what extent protesting the far-right is a moral issue?
“Violence against far-right is justifiable if fewer people join it”
Confirmed, even after controlling for political orientation
Study 2: moral convergence & moralization vs. acceptability of using violence
Told “the majority of (versus few) people in the United States share your particular moral values”
Observed “a significant interaction effect between moralization and moral convergence”, while
“moral convergence was (overall) unrelated to the acceptability of violence”.
Moralization in social networks and the
emergence of violence during protests
Mooijman, Hoover, Lin, Ji, Dehghani. Nature Human Behavior 2018
97. Politics
“moralization of a protest can
increase the acceptability of using
violence at this protest. In
addition, this only occurred when
participants perceived to share
their moralized attitudes with
others and increased their
attitude certainty.“
Moralization in social networks and the
emergence of violence during protests
Mooijman, Hoover, Lin, Ji, Dehghani. Nature Human Behavior 2018
98. Politics
“Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant” vs “ISIS”
#FailedRevolutions: Using Twitter to study the
antecedents of ISIS support
Magdy, Darwish, Weber. First Monday 21(2), 2016
99. Politics
1. full name of the group
“ﻲﻣﻼﺳﻹا ”ﺔﻟودﻟا (Aldawla Alislamiya — “Islamic State”) or “ﻲﻓ قارﻌﻟا
مﺎﺷﻟاو ”ﺔﯾﻣﻼﺳﻹا (Aldawla Alislamiya fi Aliraq walsham — “Islamic
State in Iraq and the Levant”)
2. abbreviated version of the name
“”عاد (da’esh — Arabic acronym for the group), “”شﻋ (da’eshy —
from da’esh), or “”عاود (dawa’esh — plural of da’eshy)
3.9 million tweets
13 Oct - 31 Dec 2014
#FailedRevolutions: Using Twitter to study the
antecedents of ISIS support
Magdy, Darwish, Weber. First Monday 21(2), 2016
100. Politics #FailedRevolutions: Using Twitter to study the
antecedents of ISIS support
Magdy, Darwish, Weber. First Monday 21(2), 2016
1. full name of the group
“ﻲﻣﻼﺳﻹا ”ﺔﻟودﻟا (Aldawla Alislamiya — “Islamic State”) or “ﻲﻓ قارﻌﻟا
مﺎﺷﻟاو ”ﺔﯾﻣﻼﺳﻹا (Aldawla Alislamiya fi Aliraq walsham — “Islamic
State in Iraq and the Levant”)
2. abbreviated version of the name
“”عاد (da’esh — Arabic acronym for the group), “”شﻋ (da’eshy —
from da’esh), or “”عاود (dawa’esh — plural of da’eshy)
3.9 million tweets
13 Oct - 31 Dec 2014
Select accounts mentioning ISIS at least 10 times
And which use same name form 70% of the time
Manually assessed accuracy 98%
101. Politics #FailedRevolutions: Using Twitter to study the
antecedents of ISIS support
Magdy, Darwish, Weber. First Monday 21(2), 2016
Hashtags predicting ISIS support
102. Politics #FailedRevolutions: Using Twitter to study the
antecedents of ISIS support
Magdy, Darwish, Weber. First Monday 21(2), 2016
Hashtags predicting ISIS opposition
104. Politics Revisiting the American Voter on Twitter
Le, Boynton, Mejova, Shafiq, Srinivasan. CHI, 2017
105. Politics Revisiting the American Voter on Twitter
Le, Boynton, Mejova, Shafiq, Srinivasan. CHI, 2017
Most important factors for
choosing a president are:
● Party / partisanship
● Policy considerations
● Personality of candidate
106. Nov 15, 2015 - Feb 29, 2016
49,564,856 tweets
11,043,452 users
Politics Revisiting the American Voter on Twitter
Le, Boynton, Mejova, Shafiq, Srinivasan. CHI, 2017
Twitter Streaming API
Candidate full name as query
107. Party
User following
“landmark”
accounts with
known
partisanship
Politics Revisiting the American Voter on Twitter
Le, Boynton, Mejova, Shafiq, Srinivasan. CHI, 2017
Personality
Modified
Adjective Check
List (ACL) having
14 categories:
moderation,
forcefulness,
pettiness...
Policy
From previous
literature,
keywords for 11
policy categories:
immigration,
economy, gun
control...
Sentiment
SentiWordNet
which is
expansion of
WordNet
dictionary
108. “negative tweets account for about four-fifths of all personality-related tweets overall, Republicans
tend to be more negative than Democrats (83% vs. 77%). As compared to Republicans,
Democrats are more positive about pacifism and more negative about machiavellianism and wit.”
Politics Revisiting the American Voter on Twitter
Le, Boynton, Mejova, Shafiq, Srinivasan. CHI, 2017
109. Politics Revisiting the American Voter on Twitter
Le, Boynton, Mejova, Shafiq, Srinivasan. CHI, 2017
Clinton is seen as moderate,
but not Trump or Sanders
Sanders is seen as most
friendly and cute
Clinton and Christie are seen
as most machiavellian
110. Politics Revisiting the American Voter on Twitter
Le, Boynton, Mejova, Shafiq, Srinivasan. CHI, 2017
111. Are these important in modeling favorability ratings of politicians?
Linear regression on polls aggregated by RealClearPolitics
Feature selection using AIC, modeling Republicans and Democrats separately
Politics Revisiting the American Voter on Twitter
Le, Boynton, Mejova, Shafiq, Srinivasan. CHI, 2017
112. Politics
Track affiliation with an idea
Track changes over time
Qualitative data to understand values
Social interaction
115. Nutrition
● Users post more photos in non-fast-food restaurants
● Correlation between obesity rate & fast food check-ins is 0.424
#FoodPorn: Obesity Patterns in Culinary Interactions
Mejova, Haddadi, Noulas, Weber. DH, 2015
116. Nutrition
● Posts from low-obesity counties get more likes and comments than in high-obesity areas
(socio-economic correlates?)
● More information can be glimpsed from other hashtags associated with visiting restaurants
#FoodPorn: Obesity Patterns in Culinary Interactions
Mejova, Haddadi, Noulas, Weber. DH, 2015
117. Nutrition #FoodPorn: Obesity Patterns in Culinary Interactions
Mejova, Haddadi, Noulas, Weber. DH, 2015
Restaurant
categories
with
#foodporn
Likes on
posts from
restaurant
categories
118. Nutrition Anorexia on Tumblr: A Characterization Study
De Choudhury. DH, 2015
WARNING:
DISTURBING BODY
IMAGERY
119. Values are inferred from posted and liked content
Surveying these vulnerable populations directly may be difficult
Nutrition Anorexia on Tumblr: A Characterization Study
De Choudhury. DH, 2015
Predicting pro-ana vs pro-recovery users
120. fitspiration, fitsporation, fitspo
n = 1,050 posts
March 25-26, 2015
Nutrition Skinny is not enough: A content
analysis of fitspiration on Pinterest
Simpson & Mazzeo. Health Comms, 2017
121. Nutrition Skinny is not enough: A content
analysis of fitspiration on Pinterest
Simpson & Mazzeo. Health Comms, 2017
Appearance vs Health Focus
Body Image Standards
Outcome Expectations
122. Nutrition
1,055,196 tweets: obese or obesity
2,889,764 tweets: diabetes or diabetic
July 19, 2017 - Dec 31, 2017
Information Sources and Needs in the
Obesity and Diabetes Twitter Discourse
Mejova. DH, 2018
123. Nutrition Information Sources and Needs in the
Obesity and Diabetes Twitter Discourse
Mejova. DH, 2018
Hand-annotated topics of questions
Prevalent discussion of whether
obesity is a disease and whether
social acceptance of obesity as
disease is desirable
Diabetes has smaller discussion on
social perception of diabetics
124. Nutrition Information Sources and Needs in the
Obesity and Diabetes Twitter Discourse
Mejova. DH, 2018
Crowdsourced annotation
Fat shaming:
27.6% Obesity, 5.9% Diabetes
Personal information:
16.3% Obesity, 24.4% Diabetes
Personal responsibility:
9.4% Obesity, 8.2% Diabetes
125. Nutrition
Values revealed via observed behavior
Values may be unhealthy, merging into mental problems
Values may be promoted by people or other parties
Discussions reveal attitudes
127. Religion
Halal ﺣﻼﻻ
In Islam, Halal is an Arabic term meaning “lawful or permissible” and not only
encompasses food and drink, but all matters of daily life.
Haram
That which is not permissible under Islamic law
#Halal Culture on Instagram
Mejova, Benkhedda, Khairani. Frontiers in Digital Humanities 2017
Source: Islamic Services of America
128. Halal (English) 1,004,445 posts by 120,943 users
ﺣﻼﻻ (Arabic) 325,665 posts by 11,516 users
Data collection in April 2016
Religion #Halal Culture on Instagram
Mejova, Benkhedda, Khairani. Frontiers in Digital Humanities 2017
129. Religion #Halal Culture on Instagram
Mejova, Benkhedda, Khairani. Frontiers in Digital Humanities 2017
English ArabicIndonesian
Topic extraction using LDA, the 50 topics annotated using Grounded Theory with
primary and secondary codes by proficient language speakers.
130. Posts mentioning religion get many more likes in Arabic (but everything else does too)
Posts mentioning foods get fewer likes when they also mention regulatory agencies like FDA (in
Indonesian and English)
Religion #Halal Culture on Instagram
Mejova, Benkhedda, Khairani. Frontiers in Digital Humanities 2017
EnglishArabic Indonesian
131. Social media may be a window
into the open interpretation and
changing nature of religious
concepts
Religion #Halal Culture on Instagram
Mejova, Benkhedda, Khairani. Frontiers in Digital Humanities 2017
132. Religion
Tweet histories of over 12K users
who claim to live in Qatar and
have a common Qatari last name.
Span Sep 2006 - July 2014
Privacy and Social Media Use in the Arabian
Gulf: Saudi Arabian & Qatari Traditional Values
in the Digital World
Abokhodair, Abbar, Vieweg, Mejova. Journal of Web Science, 2017
133. ● No single word for “privacy”
● Manual analysis of popular
keywords, excluding
ambiguous ones
● LDA topical analysis to
exclude non-relevant topics
● Final tweets: 1,772
Religion Privacy and Social Media Use in the Arabian
Gulf: Saudi Arabian & Qatari Traditional Values
in the Digital World
Abokhodair, Abbar, Vieweg, Mejova. Journal of Web Science, 2017
134. Mainly associated with fear,
demerit, haram, culture,
society, people. Also:
Facebook and policy
Spaces in which privacy
should apply
Religion Privacy and Social Media Use in the Arabian
Gulf: Saudi Arabian & Qatari Traditional Values
in the Digital World
Abokhodair, Abbar, Vieweg, Mejova. Journal of Web Science, 2017
Terms associated with Khososyah (privacy)
135. Anything that should not be
disclosed in public.
Close connection to God
“Do not violate others’ privacy if
you do not want your own privacy
violated”
Accumulation of good deeds
Religion Privacy and Social Media Use in the Arabian
Gulf: Saudi Arabian & Qatari Traditional Values
in the Digital World
Abokhodair, Abbar, Vieweg, Mejova. Journal of Web Science, 2017
Terms associated with Ird (honor)
137. ● manually labeled for gender
● user’s name, screen name,
profile
● 47% female
● contributed 1.367 tweets
(men 1.445 tweets)
Religion Privacy and Social Media Use in the Arabian
Gulf: Saudi Arabian & Qatari Traditional Values
in the Digital World
Abokhodair, Abbar, Vieweg, Mejova. Journal of Web Science, 2017
more female more male
138. Privacy is gendered
Privacy is what one is exposed to
Privacy is also after death
Privacy is moral in religious sense
Religion Privacy and Social Media Use in the Arabian
Gulf: Saudi Arabian & Qatari Traditional Values
in the Digital World
Abokhodair, Abbar, Vieweg, Mejova. Journal of Web Science, 2017
139. pro-Muslim vs anti-Muslim response after
November 13, 2015 Paris attacks
8.36M tweets on Nov 14 - 16
Religion #isisisnotislam or #deportallmuslims?:
Predicting unspoken views
Magdy, Darwish, Abokhodair, Rahimi, Baldwin. WebSci, 2016
140. Predicting post-even stance using content, profile, and network features and SVM classifier
Religion #isisisnotislam or #deportallmuslims?:
Predicting unspoken views
Magdy, Darwish, Abokhodair, Rahimi, Baldwin. WebSci, 2016
142. Conservative media outlets
Presidential primaries
Evangelical Christian
preachers
Political and foreign issues
pro-Israel media
Atheists
Secular Muslims
anti-Islam content
Abortion
Liberal media outlets
Presidential primaries
US President (Obama)
Social issues like abortion,
race relations, same sex
marriage, gun control
Foreign media outlets
Muslim academics
Support for Muslims
African American media
Negative
Positive
143. Religion
Track the way religion affects everyday behaviors & beliefs
Track opinions about religion
Location-specific culture
Development over time
148. Discussion - bias
Alexandra Olteanu, Carlos Castillo, Fernando Diaz, and Emre Kiciman. Social data: Biases, methodological pitfalls, and
ethical boundaries. 2016.
149. Discussion - bias
Zeynep Tufekci. Big questions for social media big data: Representativeness, validity and other methodological
pitfalls. ICWSM, 14:505–514, 2014.
Twitter becoming a model
organism because of accessible
API and public data.
But is it representative of
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