creators_name: Maulana, Ardian creators_name: Situngkir, Hokky creators_id: ai@compsoc.bandungfe.net creators_id: hs@compsoc.bandungfe.net type: techreport datestamp: 2010-11-22 14:17:39 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:49 metadata_visibility: show title: Some Inquiries to Spontaneous Opinions: A case with Twitter in Indonesia ispublished: pub subjects: appl-cog-psy subjects: comp-sci-complex-theory subjects: ling-comput subjects: ling-sem subjects: soc-psy full_text_status: public keywords: Twitter, social network, social media, text analysis, conceptual map, mention map. abstract: The 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. date: 2010-11-01 date_type: published institution: Bandung Fe Institute department: Dept.Computational Sociology refereed: TRUE referencetext: Brin, S. & Page, L. (1998) “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”. Computer Networks 30: 107-17. Cheng, A., Evans, M., & Singh, H. (2009). Inside Twitter: An In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World. Sysomos Inc. URL: http://www.sysomos.com/insidetwitter/ Ediger, D., Jiang, K., Riedy, E.J., Bader, D.A., Corley, C.D., Farber, R.M., & Reynolds. W. (2010). "Massive Social Network Analysis: Mining Twitter for Social Good. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing. San Diego, CA 2010 Evans, M. (2010). The Top Twitter Countries and Cities. Sysomos. On-line publication: http://blog.sysomos.com/2010/01/14/exploring-the-use-of-twitter-around-the-world/ Kahin, G. M. (1952). Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia. Cornell UP. Kwak, H., Lee, C., Park, H., & Moon, S. (2010). "What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?". Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web pp. 591-600. ACM. National Public Radio. (2010). Library Of Congress Is Archiving Your Tweets. URL: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126086325 Newman, M. E. J.(2004).”Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf’s law”. Contemporary Physics 46 (5): 323-51. Newman, M. E. J. & Park, J. “Why social networks are different from other types of network.” Physical Review E 68(3). Situngkir, H. (2007). "Konsep Sentralitas dalam Jaringan Teks". BFI Working Paper Series WPV2007. Bandung Fe Institute. Spire Research. (2009). Indonesia: Asia’s mobile internet success story. Spire Research & Consulting. URL: http://www.spireresearch.com/pdf/archive/ejournal-dec09/Indonesia-Asia's mobile internet success story.pdf citation: Maulana, Ardian and Situngkir, Hokky (2010) Some Inquiries to Spontaneous Opinions: A case with Twitter in Indonesia. [Departmental Technical Report] document_url: http://cogprints.org/7133/1/2010j.pdf