Tweeting Questions in Academic Conferences: Seeking or Promoting Information?

Wen, Xidao; Lin, Yu-Ru

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Title

Tweeting Questions in Academic Conferences: Seeking or Promoting Information?

Author(s)

• Wen, Xidao
• Lin, Yu-Ru

Issue Date

2015-03-15

Keyword(s)

• information seeking/retrieval
• social media
• text/data/knowledge mining

Abstract

The fast growth of social media has reshaped the traditional way of human interaction and information seeking behavior, which draws research attention on characterizing the new information seeking paradigm. However, results from previous studies might not be well grounded under certain social settings. In this paper, we leverage machine learning techniques to identify different types of question tweets within academic communities as an example of one particular social context. By studying over 160 thousands of tweets posted by 30 academic communities, we discovered a different landscape of information-seeking behaviors, where less tweets are regarded as question tweets, and more real information-seeking tweets are observed. We also found that users respond differently with different types of question tweets. We believe our study would be beneficial for understanding the information seeking behaviors in social media.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2015 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

English

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