Open AccessClassifying values in informal communication: Adapting the meta‐inventory of human values for tweets
Author(s) -
Koepfler Jes A.,
Fleischmann Kenneth R.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.2011.14504801116
Subject(s) - human values , psychology , computer science , sociology , social science
This study builds upon and expands the Meta‐Inventory of Human Values (MIHV) proposed by Cheng and Fleischmann (2010) for application in informal communication settings such as Twitter. A corpus of 5,313 tweets from 32 individuals during a three‐week period in March/April 2011 was analyzed using thematic analysis. In addition to the 16 value categories in the MIHV, two new categories emerged within the informal communication context – connectedness and comfort.