#ActuallyAutistic: Using Twitter to Construct Individual and Collective Identity Narratives

Investigating the behaviour of Twitter users to construct an individual-level model of metropolitan dynamics

In this paper, consideration is given to the use of new forms of social network data as a means to enrich our understanding of complex structures and activity patterns in urban areas. Specifically, a sample of Twitter messages (‘tweets’) in the city of Leeds is assembled from publicly available sources, and spatial and temporal patterns in these data are demonstrated, with special reference to ...

Identity Construction in Three AbaGusii Bewitchment Narratives

The stories we tell about our lives unveil their content just as much as the lexical choices we make index a certain worldview, attitude, positionality, and relationship to reality. In essence, in narratives, individuals construct the self and denote personal identities. The available narrative identity studies have largely ignored the language employed by the bewitched while narrating their ex...

Generating Narratives from Personal Digital Data: Using Sentiment, Themes, and Named Entities to Construct Stories

As the quantity and variety of personal digital data shared on social media continues to grow, how can users make sense of it? There is growing interest among HCI researchers in using narrative techniques to support interpretation and understanding. This work describes our prototype application, ReelOut, which uses narrative techniques to allow users to understand their data as more than just a...

Investigating the Relationship between National Dimension of Individual Identity and Individual Differentiation by Communicating Communicative Mediation and Social Identity Cycle

Individual identity is self-explanatory by emphasizing its difference from others. In this study, we examine the impact of nationalism on the degree of individual differentiation by communicating comm::::union:::: and social identity. The research method of correlation method is structural equation modeling. The statistical population includes all citizens over 15 years of age in the provinces ...

Identity narratives and group-based emotions