Twitter Response to Munich July 2016 Attack: Network Analysis of Influence
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Bermudez, Ivan
Cleven, Daniel
Gera, Ralucca
Kiser, Erik T.
Newlin, Timothy
Saxena, Akrati
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2019-06
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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Social Media platforms in Cyberspace provide communication channels for individuals, businesses, as well as state and non-state actors (i.e., individuals and groups) to conduct messaging campaigns. What are the spheres of influence that arose around the keyword #Munich on Twitter following an active shooter event at a Munich shopping mall in July 2016? To answer that question in this work, we capture tweets utilizing #Munich beginning 1 h after the shooting was reported, and the data collection ends approximately 1 month later1. We construct both daily networks and a cumulative network from this data. We analyze community evolution using the standard Louvain algorithm, and how the communities change over time to study how they both encourage and discourage the effectiveness of an information messaging campaign. We conclude that the large communities observed in the early stage of the data disappear from the #Munich conversation within 7 days. The politically charged nature of many of these communities suggests their activity is migrated to other Twitter hashtags (i.e., conversation topics). Future analysis of Twitter activity might focus on tracking communities across topics and time.
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The article of record as published may be found at https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2019.00017
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Applied Mathematics
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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9 p.
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Saxena, Akrati, et al. "Twitter Response to Munich July 2016 Attack: Network Analysis of Influence." Frontiers in Big Data 2 (2019): 17.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.