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Arabia Felix 2.0: A Cross-Linguistic Twitter Analysis Of Happiness Patterns In The United Arab Emirates, Aamna Al Shehhi, Justin Thomas, Roy Welsch, Ian Grey, Zeyar Aung
Arabia Felix 2.0: A Cross-Linguistic Twitter Analysis Of Happiness Patterns In The United Arab Emirates, Aamna Al Shehhi, Justin Thomas, Roy Welsch, Ian Grey, Zeyar Aung
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© 2019, The Author(s). The global popularity of social media platforms has given rise to unprecedented amounts of data, much of which reflects the thoughts, opinions and affective states of individual users. Systematic explorations of these large datasets can yield valuable information about a variety of psychological and sociocultural variables. The global nature of these platforms makes it important to extend this type of exploration across cultures and languages as each situation is likely to present unique methodological challenges and yield findings particular to the specific sociocultural context. To date, very few studies exploring large social media datasets have focused …
We Tweet Arabic; I Tweet English: Self-Concept, Language And Social Media, Justin Thomas, A. Al-Shehhi, M. Al-Ameri, Ian Grey
We Tweet Arabic; I Tweet English: Self-Concept, Language And Social Media, Justin Thomas, A. Al-Shehhi, M. Al-Ameri, Ian Grey
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© 2019 The Authors Differences in self-concept have been observed across cultures. Participants from collectivist societies tend to describe themselves using social and relational attributes (mother, student, Arab) more frequently than their individualist counterparts, who tend to rely more heavily on personal attributes (fun, tall, beautiful). Much of this past research has relied on relatively small samples of college students, tasked with spontaneously reporting self-concepts in classroom settings. The present study re-examines these ideas using data extracted from Twitter, the popular social media platform. In analysis one, the Twitter biographies of individuals exclusively posting messages in English (N = 500) …