Résumé
Introduction: We analyse a large sample of the Twitter activity that developed around the social movement 'Occupy Wall Street', to study the complex interactions between the human communication activity and the semantic content of a debate. Methods: We use a network approach based on the analysis of the bipartite graph @Users-#Hash-tags and of its projections: the 'semantic network', whose nodes are hashtags, and the 'users interest network', whose nodes are users. In the first instance, we find out that discussion topics (#hashtags) presenta high structural heterogeneity, with a relevant role played by the semantic hubs that are responsible to guarantee the continuity of the debate. In the users' case, the self-organisation process of users' activity, leads to the emergence of two classes of communicators: the 'professionals' and the 'amateurs'. Results: Both the networks present a strong community structure, based on the differentiation of the semantic topics, and a high level of structural robustness when certain sets of topics are censored and/or accounts are removed. Conclusions: By analysing the characteristics of the dynamical networks we can distinguish three phases of the discussion about the movement. Each phase corresponds to a specific moment of the movement: from declaration of intent, organisation and development and the final phase of political reactions. Each phase is characterised by the presence of prototypical #hash-tags in the discussion.
langue originale | Anglais |
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Numéro d'article | e0137191 |
journal | PLoS ONE |
Volume | 10 |
Numéro de publication | 9 |
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Etat de la publication | Publié - 9 sept. 2015 |
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Apolloni, A. (Contributeur), Bindi, J. (Contributeur) & Gargiulo, F. (Contributeur), Dryad Digital Repository, 9 sept. 2015
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.q1h04, https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.q1h04 et un lien de plus, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q1h04/1 (voir moins)
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