Word-sized Visualizations for Exploring Discussion Diversity in Social Media

Franziska Huth, Tanja Blascheck, Steffen Koch, Sonja Utz, Thomas Ertl

2021

Abstract

In this paper, we explore the design space of word-sized visualizations—small graphics, usually the same size as a word, that visualize data in or related to a text—for displaying and exploring categories in social media feeds such as Twitter streams. Social media contributions are typically microposts, which allow us to attach word-sized visualizations to show category assignment, diversity, or development. We consider and combine word-sized visualizations made up of basic marks and visual variables, existing word-sized visualization concepts, as well as large text visualizations. In an application example we show how word-sized visualizations can evince context changes within a discussion on Twitter and reveal topic diversity.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Huth F., Blascheck T., Koch S., Utz S. and Ertl T. (2021). Word-sized Visualizations for Exploring Discussion Diversity in Social Media. In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2021) - Volume 3: IVAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-488-6, SciTePress, pages 256-265. DOI: 10.5220/0010328602560265

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp21,
author={Franziska Huth and Tanja Blascheck and Steffen Koch and Sonja Utz and Thomas Ertl},
title={Word-sized Visualizations for Exploring Discussion Diversity in Social Media},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2021) - Volume 3: IVAPP},
year={2021},
pages={256-265},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010328602560265},
isbn={978-989-758-488-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2021) - Volume 3: IVAPP
TI - Word-sized Visualizations for Exploring Discussion Diversity in Social Media
SN - 978-989-758-488-6
AU - Huth F.
AU - Blascheck T.
AU - Koch S.
AU - Utz S.
AU - Ertl T.
PY - 2021
SP - 256
EP - 265
DO - 10.5220/0010328602560265
PB - SciTePress