#1b1t: Investigating Reading Practices at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

Gruzd, Anatoliy; Sedo, DeNel Rehberg

doi:10.7202/1009347ar

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“…To answer this question, we examined the structural characteristics of the #GDPR communication network. The network exhibits properties similar to other hashtag-driven communication networks on Twitter [see, for example, 28,29]. That is, a relatively low value of reciprocity (0.06 out of 1) -a measure of the amount of mutual relations among users-shows that only 6% of connections among Twitter users are bi-directional.…”

Section: Pr Functions Exhibited In #Gdprmentioning

confidence: 72%

Who is Influencing the #GDPR Discussion on Twitter: Implications for Public Relations

Gruzd

Abul-Fottouh

Mashatan

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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On May 25, 2018, the European Union (EU) implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to protect individuals' privacy and data. This regulation has far-reaching implications as it applies to any organization that deals with data of EU residents. By studying the discussion about this regulation on Twitter, our goal is to examine public opinions and organizational public relations (PR) strategies about GDPR. The results show that the regulation is being actively discussed by a variety of stakeholders, but especially by cybersecurity and IT-related firms and consultants. At the same time, some of the stakeholders that were expected to have a more active role were less involved, including companies that store or process personal data, government and regulatory bodies, mainstream media, and academics. The results also show that the stakeholders mostly have one-way rather than two-way communication with their audiences, thus fulfilling the rhetorical than relational function of PR.

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Section: Pr Functions Exhibited In #Gdprmentioning

confidence: 72%

Who is Influencing the #GDPR Discussion on Twitter: Implications for Public Relations

Gruzd

Abul-Fottouh

Mashatan

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Online book clubs are technical extensions of offline discussion groups (Foasberg, ; Scharber, ; Sedo, ), with readers sharing book reviews or recommendations “regardless of factors such as cultural or socio‐economic background, gender, reading level or geography” (Sedo, , p. 8). Online book reading initiatives may also be harnessed for community building (Harder, Howard, & Sedo, ) as well as for library activities and book promotion by publishers (Harder et al, ) and can allow direct interactions with a book's author (Gruzd & Sedo, ). Goodreads is sometimes used to help organize online or offline clubs (Hooper, ).…”

Section: Social Activities Related To Book Readingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Goodreads: A social network site for book readers

Thelwall

Kousha

2016

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Goodreads is an Amazon-owned book-based social web site for members to share books read, review books, rate books and connect with other readers. Goodreads has tens of millions of book reviews, recommendations and ratings that may help librarians and readers to select relevant books. This article describes a first investigation of the properties of Goodreads users, using a random sample of 50,000 members. The results suggest that about three quarters of members with a public profile are female, and that there is little difference between male and female users in patterns of behaviour, except for females registering more books and rating them less positively. Goodreads librarians and super users engage extensively with most features of the site. The absence of strong correlations between book-based and social usage statistics (e.g., numbers of friends, followers, books, reviews, and ratings) suggests that members choose their own individual balance of social and book activities and rarely ignore one at the expense of the other. Goodreads is therefore neither primarily a book-based website nor primarily a social network site but is a genuine hybrid, social navigation site.

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“…Social networks have proven to be influential in engaging others in political action and deliberation (Biddix & Park, 2008;Gruzd & Roy, 2014), and they have revealed useful insights into the operation of online communities (Gruzd, 2014). For example, by studying underlying social network properties and typology, one can determine whether it is a successful online community or not (Gruzd & Haythornthwaite, 2013;Gruzd & Sedo, 2012), who are the influential members of a group (Aral & Walker, 2012;Gruzd & Wellman, 2014), how information spreads among group members (Bakshy, Rosenn, Marlow, & Adamic, 2012;Grabowicz, Ramasco, Moro, Pujol, & Eguiluz, 2012), and whether there are any densely connected subgroups formed within a group, potentially representing different interests, affiliations, or geography (Ferrara, 2012;Gruzd, Black, Le, & Amos, 2012;Gruzd, Wellman, & Takhteyev, 2011;Takhteyev, Gruzd, & Wellman, 2012).…”

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Information Wars and Online Activism During the 2013/2014 Crisis in Ukraine: Examining the Social Structures of Pro‐ and Anti‐Maidan Groups

Gruzd¹,

Tsyganova²

2015

Policy & Internet

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This article examines how online groups are formed and sustained during crisis periods, especially when political polarization in society is at its highest level. We focus on the use of Vkontakte (VK), a popular social networking site in Ukraine, to understand how it was used by Pro-and AntiMaidan groups during the 2013/2014 crisis in Ukraine. In particular, we ask whether and to what extent the ideology (or other factors) of a particular group shapes its network structure. We find some support that online social networks are likely to represent local and potentially preexisting social networks, likely due to the dominance of reciprocal (and often close) relationships on VK and opportunities for group members to meet face-to-face during offline protests. We also identify a number of group-level indicators, such as degree centralization, modularity index and average engagement level, that could help to classify groups based on their network properties. Community researchers can start applying these group-level indicators to online communities outside VK; they can also learn from this article how to identify networks of spam and marketing accounts.

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#1b1t: Investigating Reading Practices at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

Cited by 23 publications

References 19 publications

Who is Influencing the #GDPR Discussion on Twitter: Implications for Public Relations

Who is Influencing the #GDPR Discussion on Twitter: Implications for Public Relations

Goodreads: A social network site for book readers

Information Wars and Online Activism During the 2013/2014 Crisis in Ukraine: Examining the Social Structures of Pro‐ and Anti‐Maidan Groups

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