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The digital language divide: COMMUNITY - Coggle Diagram
The digital language divide
: COMMUNITY
inclusion
interaction
common interests
exclusion
interaction is limited by language
Twitter users tend to confine their follows, tweets and retweets to those that speak the same language
structure
of language
German
: hashtags
Chinese > English
, in terms of what one can say in 140 characters :
purpose
of social media use differs among language groups
conversation :silhouettes:
sharing information :pencil2:
most used
languages on Twitter - Semiocast (2010)
English
(50%)
Spanish
Japanese
Portugese
Malay
Language Matters in Twitter
: A Large Scale Study (Lichan Hong, Gregorio Convertion, and Ed H. Chi)
language
and associated
cultural differences
matter indeed and need to be considered when
designing cross-cultural communication tools
hashtags
German:
18%
of tweets
Japanese:
5%
of tweets
number of hashtags
used by a pair of language communities =
how likely
these communities were to tweet about
the same topics
replies to tweets
reply = indication of
the strength of communication
Korean:
52%
English:
29%
average: 31%