TITLE:
Social Networks, Politics and Public Views: An Analysis of the Term “Macedonia” in Twitter
AUTHORS:
Dimitrios Kydros, Vasiliki Vrana, Evangelos Kehris
KEYWORDS:
Social Network Analysis, Twitter, Macedonia, Μακεδονíα, Македонска - Македониjа, Content Analysis, Public Views
JOURNAL NAME:
Social Networking,
Vol.8 No.1,
December
18,
2018
ABSTRACT:
In this paper we deal with Twitter and the presence of the keyword “Macedonia”
in tweets over a period of time. We searched for the same term in three
different languages, i.e. “Μακεδονíα”, “Macedonia” and “Македонска -
Македониjа”, since we are primarily interested in views from Greece and
FYROM without excluding views from other regions. We use methods from
Social Network Analysis (SNA) in order to create networks of users, calculate
some main network metrics, measure user importance and investigate the
presence of possible fragmentations—communities among them. We furthermore
proceed to a form of content analysis, using pairs of words within
tweets, in order to obtain main ideas, trends and public views that circulated
over the network.