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Twitter Activity Of Urban And Rural Colleges: A Sentiment Analysis Using The Dialogic Loop
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In: FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2019)
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The purpose of the present study is to ascertain if colleges are achieving their ultimate communication goals of maintaining and attracting students through their microblogging activity, which according to Dialogic Loop Theory, is directly correlated to the use of positive and negative sentiment. The study focused on a cross-section of urban and rural community colleges within the United States to identify the sentiment score of their microblogging activity. The study included a content analysis on the Twitter activity of these colleges. A data-mining process was employed to collect a census of the tweets associated with these colleges. Further processing was then applied using data linguistic software that removed all irrelevant text, word abbreviations, emoticons, and other Twitter specific classifiers. The resulting data set was then processed through a Multinomial Naive Bayes Classifier, which refers to a probability of word counts in a text. The classifier was trained using a data source of 1.5 million tweets, called Sentiment140, that qualitatively analyzed the corpus of these tweets, labeling them as positive and negative sentiment. The Multinomial Naive Bayes Classifier distinguished specific wording and phrases from the corpus, comparing the data to a specific database of sentiment word identifiers. The sentiment analysis process categorized the text as being positive or negative. Finally, statistical analysis was conducted on the outcome of the sentiment analysis. A significant contribution of the current work was extending Kent and Taylor's (1998) Dialogic Loop Theory, which was designed specifically for identifying the relationship building capabilities of a Web site, to encompass the microblogging concept used in Twitter. Specifically, Dialogic Loop Theory is applied and enhanced to develop a model for social media communication to augment relationship building capabilities, which the current study established as a new form for evaluating Twitter tweets, labeled in the current body of work as Microblog Dialogic Communication. The implication is that by using Microblog Dialogic Communication, a college can address and correct their microblogging sentiment. The results of the data collected found that rural colleges tweeted more positive sentiment tweets and less negative sentiment tweets when compared to the urban colleges tweets.
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Communication Technology and New Media; dialogic communication theory; Educational Technology; Mass Communication; Microblog Dialogic Communication; Sentiment analysis; Social Media; Twitter
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URL: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5490&context=etd https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/4342
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Chatting Online: An Ethnographic Case Study of Educator Discourse on Social Media
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In: UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones (2019)
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A critical investigation of Bell Let’s Talk
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In: Major Papers (2019)
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Course Goals and Feedback Workflows: Examining Instructors' Pedagogy in Professional Communication Service Courses
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In: Theses and Dissertations (2019)
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A Geology of the General Intellect
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In: Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository (2019)
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Mobile Technology and Classroom Relationships
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In: Theses and Dissertations--Communication (2019)
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Journalists’ level of knowledge on empirical research and opinion polling: A study of Kenyan journalists
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In: Faculty Publications, College of Journalism & Mass Communications (2019)
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Developing Student Critical Consciousness: Twitter as a Tool to Apply Critical Literacy in the English Classroom
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In: Journal of Media Literacy Education (2019)
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The Impact of a Therapist's Language in Computer-Mediated Communication
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In: Masters Theses & Specialist Projects (2019)
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Personalized Prediction of Suicide Risk for Web-based Intervention
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In: Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan (2019)
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Personalized Prediction of Suicide Risk for Web-based Intervention
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In: Amit P. Sheth (2019)
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Budweiser in the 2017 Super Bowl ... : Dialectic Values Advocacy and the Rhetorical Stakeholder ...
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Facebook and WeChat: Chinese International Students' Social Media Usage and How It Influences Their Intercultural Adaptation
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In: Master's Theses (2009 -) (2018)
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BUDWEISER IN THE 2017 SUPER BOWL: DIALECTIC VALUES ADVOCACY AND THE RHETORICAL STAKEHOLDER
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In: Theses and Dissertations--Communication (2018)
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Radio Waves and Curriculum Pathways: Jamaican “At Risk” Learners Construct Media
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In: Journal of Media Literacy Education (2018)
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The Promises, Challenges, and Futures of Media Literacy
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Personalized Prediction of Suicide Risk for Web-based Intervention
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In: Kno.e.sis Publications (2018)
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Haul, Parody, Remix: Mobilizing Feminist Rhetorical Criticism With Video
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In: English Publications (2017)
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Effects of DDL technology on genre learning
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In: English Publications (2017)
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A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Exploration of a Crowdfunding Entrepreneurial Pitch.
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In: Conference papers (2017)
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