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21 de febrero de 2014

Mapping Twitter Topic Networks: From Polarized Crowds to Community Clusters

Summary of Findings

Polarized Crowds: Political conversations on Twitter

Conversations on Twitter create networks with identifiable contours as people reply to and mention one another in their tweets. These conversational structures differ, depending on the subject and the people driving the conversation. Six structures are regularly observed: divided, unified, fragmented, clustered, and inward and outward hub and spoke structures. These are created as individuals choose whom to reply to or mention in their Twitter messages and the structures tell a story about the nature of the conversation.

If a topic is political, it is common to see two separate, polarized crowds take shape. They form two distinct discussion groups that mostly do not interact with each other. Frequently these are recognizably liberal or conservative groups. The participants within each separate group commonly mention very different collections of website URLs and use distinct hashtags and words. The split is clearly evident in many highly controversial discussions: people in clusters that we identified as liberal used URLs for mainstream news websites, while groups we identified as conservative used links to conservative news websites and commentary sources. At the center of each group are discussion leaders, the prominent people who are widely replied to or mentioned in the discussion. In polarized discussions, each group links to a different set of influential people or organizations that can be found at the center of each conversation cluster.

While these polarized crowds are common in political conversations on Twitter, it is important to remember that the people who take the time to post and talk about political issues on Twitter are a special group. Unlike many other Twitter members, they pay attention to issues, politicians, and political news, so their conversations are not representative of the views of the full Twitterverse. Moreover, Twitter users are only 18% of internet users and 14% of the overall adult population. Their demographic profile is not reflective of the full population. Additionally, other work by the Pew Research Center has shown that tweeters’ reactions to events are often at odds with overall public opinion— sometimes being more liberal, but not always. Finally, forthcoming survey findings from Pew Research will explore the relatively modest size of the social networking population who exchange political content in their network.

Still, the structure of these Twitter conversations says something meaningful about political discourse these days and the tendency of politically active citizens to sort themselves into distinct partisan camps. Social networking maps of these conversations provide new insights because they combine analysis of the opinions people express on Twitter, the information sources they cite in their tweets, analysis of who is in the networks of the tweeters, and how big those networks are. And to the extent that these online conversations are followed by a broader audience, their impact may reach well beyond the participants themselves.

Our approach combines analysis of the size and structure of the network and its sub-groups with analysis of the words, hashtags and URLs people use. Each person who contributes to a Twitter conversation is located in a specific position in the web of relationships among all participants in the conversation. Some people occupy rare positions in the network that suggest that they have special importance and power in the conversation.

Social network maps of Twitter crowds and other collections of social media can be created with innovative data analysis tools that provide new insight into the landscape of social media. These maps highlight the people and topics that drive conversations and group behavior – insights that add to what can be learned from surveys or focus groups or even sentiment analysis of tweets. Maps of previously hidden landscapes of social media highlight the key people, groups, and topics being discussed.

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19 de febrero de 2014

¿Qué son las Relaciones Públicas? 4 definiciones

Con el tiempo y los grandes cambios en el mundo del marketing, las redes sociales y la publicidad, las relaciones públicas han tenido que evolucionar a la par y volverse una rama más integral. Aquí dejamos cinco definiciones de relaciones públicas de los expertos.

Mark Burgess de Blue Focus Marketing, define: “Las RP se enfocan en construir buenas relaciones con los públicos variados de una compañía obteniendo publicidad favorable, construyendo una buena imagen corporativa y manejando las crisis de los managers. Hoy, una buena firma de RP debe ser experta en el uso del social media”.

Debora Weinstein, de Strategic Objectives, asegura que las relaciones públicas son “el arte y la ciencia de compartir noticias genuinas, creíbles y relevantes, que mantengan y protejan la aceptación de la marca, el conocimiento, la reputación y las ventas cuando es apropiado. Las relaciones públicas crean conversaciones medibles, basadas en hechos, eventos y actividades concebidas para generar aprobaciones y audiencias de parte de terceros”.

Nancy Tamosaitis, de Thompson-Vorticom, piensa que las relaciones públicas han avanzado con la tecnología y que su rol en la gerencia se ha incrementado, “las relaciones públicas consisten en definir y comunicar la narrativa de una compañía para proveer de claridad en la percepción del mercado que se busca alcanzar”.

Sally Falkow de Press-Feed, detalla que “el propósito de las relaciones públicas es participar en conversaciones sobre la industria y tu negocio, construir relaciones relevantes con accionistas y construir comunidades de influencia e interesadas alrededor de una compañía, organización o marca”.


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