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Temporal behavioural analysis of extremists on social media: A machine learning based approach
2021 6th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies, SpliTech 2021
  • Saad Lutfi, University of Wollongong in Dubai
  • Rand Yasin, University of Wollongong in Dubai
  • May El Barachi, University of Wollongong in Dubai
  • Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong in Dubai
  • Ajala Imene, University of Wollongong in Dubai
  • Sujith Samuel Mathew, Zayed University
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
9-8-2021
Abstract

Public opinion is of critical importance to businesses and governments. It represents the collective opinion and prevalent views about a certain topic, policy, or issue. Extreme public opinion consists of extreme views held by individuals that advocate and spread radical ideas for the purpose of radicalizing others. while the proliferation of social media gives unprecedented reach and visibility and a platform for freely expressing public opinion, social media fora can also be used for spreading extreme views, manipulating public opinions, and radicalizing others. In this work, we leverage data mining and analytics techniques to study extreme public opinion expressed using social medial. A dataset of 259, 904 tweets posted between 21/02/2016 and 01/05/2021 was collected in relation to extreme nationalism, hate speech, and supremacy. The collected data was analyzed using a variety to techniques, including sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, social circle analysis, and opinion leaders' identification, and results related to an American politician and an American right-wing activist were presented. The results obtained are very promising and open the door to the ability to monitor the evolution of extreme views and public opinion online.

ISBN
9789532901122
Disciplines
Keywords
  • Extreme views,
  • Nationalism,
  • Opinion leaders,
  • Sentiment analysis,
  • Social media analytics
Scopus ID
85118441623
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
No
https://doi.org/10.23919/SpliTech52315.2021.9566446
Citation Information
Saad Lutfi, Rand Yasin, May El Barachi, Farhad Oroumchian, et al.. "Temporal behavioural analysis of extremists on social media: A machine learning based approach" 2021 6th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies, SpliTech 2021 (2021)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/sujith-mathew/25/