Personal information management and social networks re-finding on Twitter

Meier, Florian; Elsweiler, David

doi:10.1145/2637002.2637058

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“…A mainly crowdsourced (Tellwut) survey of 606 tweeters in 2013/4 found that half favorited tweets. Users favorited a tweet to help them to find it later or to show approval of the tweet [ 32 ] [ 33 ]. There seems to be no research focusing on reasons for favoriting academic tweets.…”

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Academic information on Twitter: A user survey

et al. 2018

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Although counts of tweets citing academic papers are used as an informal indicator of interest, little is known about who tweets academic papers and who uses Twitter to find scholarly information. Without knowing this, it is difficult to draw useful conclusions from a publication being frequently tweeted. This study surveyed 1,912 users that have tweeted journal articles to ask about their scholarly-related Twitter uses. Almost half of the respondents (45%) did not work in academia, despite the sample probably being biased towards academics. Twitter was used most by people with a social science or humanities background. People tend to leverage social ties on Twitter to find information rather than searching for relevant tweets. Twitter is used in academia to acquire and share real-time information and to develop connections with others. Motivations for using Twitter vary by discipline, occupation, and employment sector, but not much by gender. These factors also influence the sharing of different types of academic information. This study provides evidence that Twitter plays a significant role in the discovery of scholarly information and cross-disciplinary knowledge spreading. Most importantly, the large numbers of non-academic users support the claims of those using tweet counts as evidence for the non-academic impacts of scholarly research.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Academic information on Twitter: A user survey

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“…X has basically turned into an important need for someone in looking for an answer (Liu & Jansen, 2013). This statement is reinforced by the opinion of Meier (2014) who says that among the finding -keeping -re-finding activities in personal information management, X is seen as useful for finding personal information (Meier & Elsweiler, 2014;Nurhadi, 2017).…”

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The role of @literarybase X account in fulfilling information literation needs

Amani,

Hadiapurwa,

Khaerunnisa Syafitri

et al. 2023

RLJ

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Background of the study: X is a social media used mainly by the public as a source of information and can fulfill its users' information needs, including the @literarybase account, which discusses literature and books. Through this, it is expected to increase information literacy skills through information search activities to meet the information needs of its users. Purpose: This study aims to determine the role of auto-base @literarybase in meeting the information literacy needs of its followers. Method: The method used is quantitative with survey techniques. Data was collected online through the distribution of Google form questionnaires to followers of the @literarybase account with a Likert scale as a measurement, and analysis was carried out descriptively. Findings: The @literarybase account has played a role in meeting the information needs and training the information literacy skills of its followers. In content gratification, the @literarybase account fulfills the needs of information sharing and information seeking. In the gratification process, the @literarybase account fulfills entertainment, pass time, escape, habit, and self-expression needs. In social gratification, the @literarybase account fulfills the information needs through social interaction. Finally, regarding technology gratification, the @literarybase account fulfills information needs in the form of relative advantage. Conclusion: The @literarybase account has played a role in meeting information needs and training information literacy skills for its account followers. However, several aspects still need to be fully met, such as the need for self-document in content gratification, the need for campaigns in process gratification, the need for status seeking in social gratification, and the need for social compliance in technology gratification.

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“…Also, certain design of platforms could contribute to better information management (Meier, 2018; Ha et al , 2017). For example, favouriting is a function featured with personal information management, which allows users to capture and organise information in a separate timeline to enable effective re-access (Meier and Elsweiler, 2014). Finally, since information activities on platforms result in digital repositories as cultural heritage for society and users themselves, facilitation of both long-term preservation and disposition of information for users should be provided by platforms (Acker and Kreisberg, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Personal information management on social media from the perspective of platform support: a text analysis based on the Chinese social media platform policy

Zhou

Dai

Zhang

et al. 2021

OIR

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PurposeIn this study, specific measures adopted by the social media platforms in China supporting personal information management are investigated via surveys targeting such platforms. The purpose of this paper is to find out how social media platforms understand information management, and from which aspects and through what specific methods they provide support for information management, which contributes to understanding the issues and strategies associated with personal information management on social media.Design/methodology/approachThe dimensions and specific contents of the current platform support provided for information management are clearly defined by performing qualitative text analysis based on the content obtained from 11 platform policies published by five representative Chinese social media platforms.FindingsHow social media platforms support personal information management on creation, collection, utilisation, sharing, storage, protection, removal and modification is identified. By analysing the status quo of support provided by the Chinese social media platform, some issues are proposed for discussion. Improved normative management is required to address the coexistence of multivalued information and management risks. However, the user rights are limited because the platform policies tend to be more focused on the perspective of the social media platform. Furthermore, the platform policy contents regarding information management are incomplete, and the applicability of these policies should be improved.Originality/valueThis study seeks to contribute to personal information management on social media from the perspective of platform support. The perspective from the platforms as the service providers supporting information management also helps identify information management challenges and potential strategies. Furthermore, combining with the personal information management perspective, this study provides a background understanding of information management under a social collaborative framework for platforms, authorities, users and memory institutions.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-06-2020-0249

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Personal information management and social networks re-finding on Twitter

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Academic information on Twitter: A user survey

Academic information on Twitter: A user survey

The role of @literarybase X account in fulfilling information literation needs

Personal information management on social media from the perspective of platform support: a text analysis based on the Chinese social media platform policy

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