Multilingual use of Twitter: Social networks at the language frontier
作者：
Highlights：
• We conduct a social network analysis of multilingual Twitter users’ ego networks.
• We create network statistics of connections between language groups.
• Bilingual networks can have separated, integrated, and peripheral language groups.
• We model how network factors influence the language choices of multilingual users.
• English use in the network is the best predictor of the egos’ language choice.
摘要
•We conduct a social network analysis of multilingual Twitter users’ ego networks.•We create network statistics of connections between language groups.•Bilingual networks can have separated, integrated, and peripheral language groups.•We model how network factors influence the language choices of multilingual users.•English use in the network is the best predictor of the egos’ language choice.
论文关键词：Social media,Twitter,Social network analysis,Multilingualism,Language choice
论文评审过程：Available online 6 June 2014.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.05.005
