Geospatial Analysis

Buchel, Olga; Pennington, Diane Rasmussen

doi:10.4135/9781473983847.n18

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“…In addition, studies of social media in other fields other than in that of linguistics tend to apply research methods based on non-text data generated on social media, such as geospatial analysis and network centrality analysis. Geospatial analysis uses geographical and spatial data on social media to get better insights about phenomena under investigation (Buchel & Pennington, 2017). For instance, Sobkowicz et al (2012) argued that geospatial analysis could be used to understand the topics and opinions of the stakeholder from different regions in real-time to forecast political opinions on social media by modeling opinion formation.…”

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Linguistic Studies on Social Media: A Bibliometric Analysis

Wang

Feng

2021

Sage Open

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This study aimed to present the status quo of linguistic studies on social media in the past decade. In particular, it conducted a bibliometric analysis of articles from the field of linguistics of the database of Web of Science Core Collection with the aid of the tool CiteSpace to identify the general characteristics, major strands of linguistics, main research methods, and important research themes in the area of linguistic studies on social media. The main findings are summarized as follows. First, the study reported the publication trend, main publication venues, researched social media platforms, and languages used in researched social media. Second, sociolinguistics and pragmatics were found to be major strands of linguistics used in relevant studies. Third, the study identified seven main research methods: discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, multimodal analysis, narrative analysis, ethnographic analysis, and corpus analysis. Fourth, important research themes were extracted and classified based on four dimensions of the genre framework of social media studies. They were the participation nature and technology affordances of social media in the dimension of compositional level, the researched topics of education, (language) policy and politics in the dimension of thematic orientations, the researched discursive practices of (im)politeness, humor, indexicality and multilingualism in the dimension of stylistic traits, and the researched communicative functions of constructing identity, communicating (language) ideology, and expressing attitude in the pragmatic dimension. Moreover, linguistic studies on social media tended to be characterized by cross-disciplinary and mixed-method approaches.

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Section: Cross-disciplinary and Mixed-methods Studymentioning

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Linguistic Studies on Social Media: A Bibliometric Analysis

Wang

Feng

2021

Sage Open

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“…). This may reflect the challenges inherent in determining the originating geolocation of tweets, which is typical of social media research (Buchel and Pennington, 2017). Alternatively, it may reflect the silence accompanying various privileges: often this reflects dominant perspectives and identities that are seen as universal (Frankenberg, 1993).…”

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Mapping #MeToo: A synthesis review of digital feminist research across social media platforms

Quan‐Haase

Mendes

Ho³

et al. 2021

New Media & Society

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A tweet by Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano using Tarana Burke’s phrase “me too” sparked a global movement. Despite the media attention #MeToo has garnered, little is known about how scholars have studied the movement. Through a synthesis review covering sources from 2006 to 2019, we learned that in this time period only 22 studies examined participation on social media such as Twitter and Facebook. We conclude that more research needs to be conducted, particularly to fill a gap in qualitative studies that directly engage individuals, to learn about their experiences with the movement. While #MeToo is a global movement, the omission of any reference to geography or a lack of geographic diversity suggests a narrow focus on scholarship based in the Global North. There is a need for more cross-cultural analysis to gain a better understanding of the movement as it evolves over time and moves into different spaces.

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