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Exploring visual impairment awareness campaigns on Twitter

Exploring visual impairment awareness campaigns on Twitter Losing the gift of vision has been affecting people’s lives on many fronts. People with visual impairments are susceptible to social isolation due to the lack of public awareness about their needs and abilities. Such lack of awareness also impacts the opportunities available to the visually impaired to be productive members of their society. Global, national, and civil organizations have conducted several annual campaigns to educate the public about the abilities and potential of the visually impaired, raise awareness about the preventable causes of visual impairments, and engage the public in the contemporary efforts to fight preventable blindness. In particular, Twitter is one of the most effective information dissemination platforms in our age, and it has been actively used in such awareness campaigns. In this paper, we aim to analyze the use of Twitter in the impairment awareness campaigns. We organize our analysis in terms of five key concerns: (1) the characteristics of active users during the event, (2) the major players in information dissemination, (3) the tweets’ common topics (4) the reachability of the information, and (5) the temporal tweeting behavior. We report the results of our analysis along with the design of an effective communication strategy of a campaign. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Social Network Analysis and Mining Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2018 by Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature
Subject
Computer Science; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law; Methodology of the Social Sciences
ISSN
1869-5450
eISSN
1869-5469
DOI
10.1007/s13278-018-0515-0
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Abstract

Losing the gift of vision has been affecting people’s lives on many fronts. People with visual impairments are susceptible to social isolation due to the lack of public awareness about their needs and abilities. Such lack of awareness also impacts the opportunities available to the visually impaired to be productive members of their society. Global, national, and civil organizations have conducted several annual campaigns to educate the public about the abilities and potential of the visually impaired, raise awareness about the preventable causes of visual impairments, and engage the public in the contemporary efforts to fight preventable blindness. In particular, Twitter is one of the most effective information dissemination platforms in our age, and it has been actively used in such awareness campaigns. In this paper, we aim to analyze the use of Twitter in the impairment awareness campaigns. We organize our analysis in terms of five key concerns: (1) the characteristics of active users during the event, (2) the major players in information dissemination, (3) the tweets’ common topics (4) the reachability of the information, and (5) the temporal tweeting behavior. We report the results of our analysis along with the design of an effective communication strategy of a campaign.

Journal

Social Network Analysis and MiningSpringer Journals

Published: Jun 4, 2018

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