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NEWSLETTER BANDUNG FE INSTITUTE (BFI)
June 10th 2011
CONTENTS:
01. The Science of Twitter
02. BFI has moved to a new place!
03. BFI is now available in Facebook and Twitter!
01. The Science of Twitter
Dept. Computational Sociology has been scrutinized the very popular
social media services, i.e.: Twitter for some period and has presented
some research papers and working papers related to the social
interactions within. Blogging, as well as micro-blogging, is no
question to play important roles in the process of modern democracy.
The existence of internet social network applications, e.g.: Facebook,
MySpace, Friendster and the internet social media e.g.: Twitter,
Plurk, whatsoever have shares in shaping of social and political life
in countries around the world. The growing size of accounts in
Indonesia reflects this. Evans (2010) reported that from a survey of
13 million Twitter accounts, the fifth largest countries in the world
using Twitter is Indonesia – holding 2.34% of the sampled twits –
after United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada, and Australia.
From the interaction within Twitter, inquiries to social interaction
can be delivered easily as all of the tweets are observed as the
spontaneous expressions related to wide scope of life: the daily
verbal expressions, rumors, promotion of products, as well as the more
serious domains, e.g.: political and economic issues. The observation
can be brought within chats among users, the propagation of particular
aspects, et cetera.
There are two interesting working papers that are now available in the
list of BFI Working Paper Series,
WP-10-2010 - http://www.bandungfe.net/?go=xpi&&crp=4cd3d852
Some Inquiries to Spontaneous Opinions: A case with Twitter in
Indonesia by Ardian Maulana and Hokky Situngkir
This paper discusses opportunities to utilize the series of micro‐
blogs as provided by the Twitter in observation of opinion dynamics.
The spontaneity of tweets is more, as the service is attached more to
the mobile communications. The extraction of information in the series
of tweets is demonstrated as in conceptual map and mention map. From
the latter, the social network stylized properties, i.e.: power law
distribution is shown. The exemplification of the methodology is on
the 82nd commemoration of Indonesian Youth Pledge and the
participatory movement of Indonesian capitol city, Jakarta.
WP-5-2011 - http://www.bandungfe.net/?go=xpj&&crp=4df226cc
Spread of hoax in Social Media
by Hokky Situngkir
The paper presents the observation on the way of hoax spreading as
gossip and rumor throughout the social media, i.e.: Twitter, by
observing an empirical case in Indonesia. We discuss the spreading
factor of the gossip in the social media and see the epidemiology of
the propagation hoax before and after the hoax being clarified in the
conventional mass media. The discussions brought us to the open
enrchiment analysis of the sociology of gossip and rumors within the
online services like Twitter for future observation of human behavior.
Both papers are written in English and available for free in the
institute's website. You should be a registered visitor to download
the full text.
02. BFI has moved to a new place!
The institute has now moved to a new place not so far from the old
place. The new postal address for correspondence now is:
Bandung Fe Institute
Jl. Sarijadi Bl0k 24 No. 175
Sarijadi Bl. 99
Bandung 40164
Jawa Barat
INDONESIA
ph./fax. +62 82025586
http://www.bandungfe.net/
Please be informed for our further contact and correspondence!
03. BFI is now available in Facebook and Twitter!
You can now be able to access and instantly receive any updates of
research by joining/liking the institute's official Facebook page at:
URL: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bandung-Fe-Institute/119717711380033
Feel free to receive interesting research results from status updates
as super-short summary from research finding conducted in the
institute. For your mobile convenience, you might also want to join
the institute official's twitter updates by following:
URL: http://twitter.com/bandungfe
You can also post any of your interest or comment at the page above.
Feel free to follow us, and let us make it our better place and social
living.
-----
BFI Administration
Bandung Fe Institute
Jl. Sarijadi Bl0k 24 No. 175
Sarijadi Bl. 99
Bandung 40164
Jawa Barat
INDONESIA
ph./fax. +62 82025586
http://www.bandungfe.net/
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June 10th 2011
CONTENTS:
01. The Science of Twitter
02. BFI has moved to a new place!
03. BFI is now available in Facebook and Twitter!
01. The Science of Twitter
Dept. Computational Sociology has been scrutinized the very popular
social media services, i.e.: Twitter for some period and has presented
some research papers and working papers related to the social
interactions within. Blogging, as well as micro-blogging, is no
question to play important roles in the process of modern democracy.
The existence of internet social network applications, e.g.: Facebook,
MySpace, Friendster and the internet social media e.g.: Twitter,
Plurk, whatsoever have shares in shaping of social and political life
in countries around the world. The growing size of accounts in
Indonesia reflects this. Evans (2010) reported that from a survey of
13 million Twitter accounts, the fifth largest countries in the world
using Twitter is Indonesia – holding 2.34% of the sampled twits –
after United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada, and Australia.
From the interaction within Twitter, inquiries to social interaction
can be delivered easily as all of the tweets are observed as the
spontaneous expressions related to wide scope of life: the daily
verbal expressions, rumors, promotion of products, as well as the more
serious domains, e.g.: political and economic issues. The observation
can be brought within chats among users, the propagation of particular
aspects, et cetera.
There are two interesting working papers that are now available in the
list of BFI Working Paper Series,
WP-10-2010 - http://www.bandungfe.net/?go=xpi&&crp=4cd3d852
Some Inquiries to Spontaneous Opinions: A case with Twitter in
Indonesia by Ardian Maulana and Hokky Situngkir
This paper discusses opportunities to utilize the series of micro‐
blogs as provided by the Twitter in observation of opinion dynamics.
The spontaneity of tweets is more, as the service is attached more to
the mobile communications. The extraction of information in the series
of tweets is demonstrated as in conceptual map and mention map. From
the latter, the social network stylized properties, i.e.: power law
distribution is shown. The exemplification of the methodology is on
the 82nd commemoration of Indonesian Youth Pledge and the
participatory movement of Indonesian capitol city, Jakarta.
WP-5-2011 - http://www.bandungfe.net/?go=xpj&&crp=4df226cc
Spread of hoax in Social Media
by Hokky Situngkir
The paper presents the observation on the way of hoax spreading as
gossip and rumor throughout the social media, i.e.: Twitter, by
observing an empirical case in Indonesia. We discuss the spreading
factor of the gossip in the social media and see the epidemiology of
the propagation hoax before and after the hoax being clarified in the
conventional mass media. The discussions brought us to the open
enrchiment analysis of the sociology of gossip and rumors within the
online services like Twitter for future observation of human behavior.
Both papers are written in English and available for free in the
institute's website. You should be a registered visitor to download
the full text.
02. BFI has moved to a new place!
The institute has now moved to a new place not so far from the old
place. The new postal address for correspondence now is:
Bandung Fe Institute
Jl. Sarijadi Bl0k 24 No. 175
Sarijadi Bl. 99
Bandung 40164
Jawa Barat
INDONESIA
ph./fax. +62 82025586
http://www.bandungfe.net/
Please be informed for our further contact and correspondence!
03. BFI is now available in Facebook and Twitter!
You can now be able to access and instantly receive any updates of
research by joining/liking the institute's official Facebook page at:
URL: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bandung-Fe-Institute/119717711380033
Feel free to receive interesting research results from status updates
as super-short summary from research finding conducted in the
institute. For your mobile convenience, you might also want to join
the institute official's twitter updates by following:
URL: http://twitter.com/bandungfe
You can also post any of your interest or comment at the page above.
Feel free to follow us, and let us make it our better place and social
living.
-----
BFI Administration
Bandung Fe Institute
Jl. Sarijadi Bl0k 24 No. 175
Sarijadi Bl. 99
Bandung 40164
Jawa Barat
INDONESIA
ph./fax. +62 82025586
http://www.bandungfe.net/
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You are receiving this newsletter because you are enlisted in BFI
mailing list. Please never reply this message. If you do not want to
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send e-mail to the address above indicating your purposes.
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