Analyzing viewpoint diversity in twitter

Abstract

Information diversity has a long tradition in human history. Recently there have been claims that diversity is diminishing in information available in social networks. On the other hand, some studies suggest that diversity is actually quite high in social networks such as Twitter. However these studies only focus on the concept of source diversity and they only focus on American users. In this paper we analyze different dimensions of diversity. We also provide an experimental design in which an empirical study can be performed to compare different concepts of diversity for Twitter users from different countries.Values and TechnologyTechnology, Policy and Managemen