Temporal Analysis of Drifting Hashtags in Textual Data Streams: A Graph-Based Application

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Hauptverfasser: Garcia, Cristiano M., Britto Jr, Alceu de Souza, Barddal, Jean Paul
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author Garcia, Cristiano M.
Britto Jr, Alceu de Souza
Barddal, Jean Paul
author_facet Garcia, Cristiano M.
Britto Jr, Alceu de Souza
Barddal, Jean Paul
contents Initially supported by Twitter, hashtags are now used on several social media platforms. Hashtags are helpful for tagging, tracking, and grouping posts on similar topics. In this paper, based on a hashtag stream regarding the hashtag #mybodymychoice, we analyze hashtag drifts over time using concepts from graph analysis and textual data streams using the Girvan-Newman method to uncover hashtag communities in annual snapshots between 2018 and 2022. In addition, we offer insights about some correlated hashtags found in the study. Our approach can be useful for monitoring changes over time in opinions and sentiment patterns about an entity on social media. Even though the hashtag #mybodymychoice was initially coupled with women's rights, abortion, and bodily autonomy, we observe that it suffered drifts during the studied period across topics such as drug legalization, vaccination, political protests, war, and civil rights. The year 2021 was the most significant drifting year, in which the communities detected and their respective sizes suggest that #mybodymychoice had a significant drift to vaccination and Covid-19-related topics.
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spellingShingle Temporal Analysis of Drifting Hashtags in Textual Data Streams: A Graph-Based Application
Garcia, Cristiano M.
Britto Jr, Alceu de Souza
Barddal, Jean Paul
Social and Information Networks
Machine Learning
Initially supported by Twitter, hashtags are now used on several social media platforms. Hashtags are helpful for tagging, tracking, and grouping posts on similar topics. In this paper, based on a hashtag stream regarding the hashtag #mybodymychoice, we analyze hashtag drifts over time using concepts from graph analysis and textual data streams using the Girvan-Newman method to uncover hashtag communities in annual snapshots between 2018 and 2022. In addition, we offer insights about some correlated hashtags found in the study. Our approach can be useful for monitoring changes over time in opinions and sentiment patterns about an entity on social media. Even though the hashtag #mybodymychoice was initially coupled with women's rights, abortion, and bodily autonomy, we observe that it suffered drifts during the studied period across topics such as drug legalization, vaccination, political protests, war, and civil rights. The year 2021 was the most significant drifting year, in which the communities detected and their respective sizes suggest that #mybodymychoice had a significant drift to vaccination and Covid-19-related topics.
title Temporal Analysis of Drifting Hashtags in Textual Data Streams: A Graph-Based Application
topic Social and Information Networks
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10230