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(via Twitter users forming tribes with own language, tweet analysis shows | News | guardian.co.uk)
Very intriguing way of grouping Twitter users based on word usage. Researchers think new ways of engaging communities can come out of this sort of breakdown. Worth a look at how the groups are split up. Data sheet embedded in article, also available for download.
- We know how a word is spoken can affect its meaning. So can how it’s typed,” said cognitive scientist Kyle Jasmin of the University of College London, co-author of a study about the so-called “QWERTY effect” in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
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With a bit of Google News sleuthing, supplemented by a trip to the Lexis-Nexis archive, it appears that the term “blood libel,” pre-Palin, was adopted by some conservative commentators in the immediate aftermath of the Tucson assassination attempt.
Recommended reading for how language spreads online, in terms of current events.
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I mean, in the case of refudiate, tweet - a Twitter tweet was the way in which that word got out into circulation. And Sarah Palin, of course, has access some more powerful means, including television and radio, but it also is possible for somebody who simply comes up with a clever term, who wants to put it out into the world, that person can do it.
Jonathon Keats in How Science and Technology Influence Language : NPR
Got to get my hands on Keats’ book, “Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology.”
Maybe Santa brought it…
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Loker, 22, works in the media industry, but studied anthropology. He's interested in how persons use technology and why.
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