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Factors impacting social media users' information behavior: The concept of social noise

Zimmerman, Tara; Behpour, Sahar; Hawamdeh, Suliman

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Title
Factors impacting social media users' information behavior: The concept of social noise
Author(s)
  • Zimmerman, Tara
  • Behpour, Sahar
  • Hawamdeh, Suliman
Issue Date
2020-03-23
Keyword(s)
  • Social media
  • Information behavior
  • Social noise
Date of Ingest
2020-03-17T23:28:41Z
Abstract
Social media communication involves the discussion and sharing of information in an environment subject to the influence of online relationships and perceived expectations of those in the social network. The ability to filter the resulting noise depends largely on our understanding of Social Noise and its underlying constructs. We introduce the concept of Social Noise and investigate methods of identifying it using a quantitative, data analytics approach. Understanding this phenomenon has taken on increasing importance as it can influence attitudes and behavior surrounding social issues, political campaigns, and other core areas of society. Results from the topic modeling and data clustering techniques represent part of ongoing research into Social Noise and general keywords and combinations of keywords related to its underlying constructs.
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iSchools
Series/Report Name or Number
iConference 2020 Proceedings
Type of Resource
  • text
  • image
Genre of Resource
Conference Poster
Language
eng
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/106527
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Copyright 2020 Tara Zimmerman, Sahar Behpour, and Suliman Hawamdeh

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