叙利亚冲突中的在线社交媒体：包括极端分子和中间人
Online Social Media in the Syria Conflict: Encompassing the Extremes and the In-Betweens
摘要：
叙利亚冲突被描述为历史上社会调解最多的冲突，在线社交媒体发挥了特别重要的作用。与此同时，不断变化的冲突格局导致难以应用其他在线政治活动研究所采取的分析方法。因此，在本文中，我们使用一种不需要强有力的先验假设或预先假设的方法来分析Twitter和YouTube活动的一系列主角的冲突，试图揭示更多的见解，他们之间的关系。通过结合多个数据视图的网络表示，我们发现了大致反映叙利亚实地情况的四类账户社区。对反政府类别中的选定社区进行了详细分析，重点关注其核心行为者，首选的在线平台以及围绕“现实世界”事件的活动。我们的研究结果表明，叙利亚的社交媒体活动比许多其他关于在线政治活动的研究报告更为复杂，这表明替代分析方法可以在这种情况下发挥重要作用。
英文摘要：
The Syria conflict has been described as the most socially mediated in history, with online social media playing a particularly important role. At the same time, the ever-changing landscape of the conflict leads to difficulties in applying analytical approaches taken by other studies of online political activism. Therefore, in this paper, we use an approach that does not require strong prior assumptions or the proposal of an advance hypothesis to analyze Twitter and YouTube activity of a range of protagonists to the conflict, in an attempt to reveal additional insights into the relationships between them. By means of a network representation that combines multiple data views, we uncover communities of accounts falling into four categories that broadly reflect the situation on the ground in Syria. A detailed analysis of selected communities within the anti-regime categories is provided, focusing on their central actors, preferred online platforms, and activity surrounding "real world" events. Our findings indicate that social media activity in Syria is considerably more convoluted than reported in many other studies of online political activism, suggesting that alternative analytical approaches can play an important role in this type of scenario.
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