Social media and public opinion

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24653131
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Kansai University
• Principal Investigator: YASUDA Yuki 関西大学, 社会学部, 教授 (00267379)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TORIUMI Fujio 東京大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (30377775)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: twitter / 社会的ネットワーク / つぶやき / 民意 / SNS / ソーシャルメディア / 社会的イベント

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We build a Web Tweet Crawler System (WTC) for collecting Tweets data. This project also examined how dissemination by Twitter occurred and how hubs and ordinary people contributed diffusion on social media. Examining various Tweets data, including demagogue data, election data, social-event data, we found opinion leaders, followers and ignorant influencers did affect people's recognition of social realty. Aggregation and converting micro tweets data macro, so called “big data” allowed us to monitor and sensor quasi public opinion. We propose categorization of social　media　users' reaction to various social events.

Free Research Field

社会学