Utilizing Social Media Data for Psychoanalysis to Study Human Personality

Social media data, for instance from Twitter or Facebook, provide a new type of data that consist of a mixture of text, image and video information. From a scientific point of view, the capabilities of this type of data from such microblogs are not well explored and to date it is largely unknown wha...

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Main Authors: Frank Emmert-Streib, Olli Yli-Harja, Matthias Dehmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02596/full
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description Social media data, for instance from Twitter or Facebook, provide a new type of data that consist of a mixture of text, image and video information. From a scientific point of view, the capabilities of this type of data from such microblogs are not well explored and to date it is largely unknown what principal knowledge can be extracted thereof. In this paper, we present a discussion of the capabilities of data from microblogs for performing a psychoanalysis. This could allow an analysis of the human personality of individual users. Such prospects raises serious concerns regarding the privacy of users of social media platforms.
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spelling doaj.art-cc0ef168e8b24a4b81bca4752be09a4b2022-12-22T02:02:33ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782019-11-011010.3389/fpsyg.2019.02596492903Utilizing Social Media Data for Psychoanalysis to Study Human PersonalityFrank Emmert-Streib0Frank Emmert-Streib1Olli Yli-Harja2Matthias Dehmer3Matthias Dehmer4Matthias Dehmer5Predictive Society and Data Analytics Lab, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, FinlandFaculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Institute of Biosciences and Medical Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, FinlandFaculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Institute of Biosciences and Medical Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, FinlandFaculty for Management, Institute for Intelligent Production, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Steyr, AustriaDepartment of Mechatronics and Biomedical Computer Science, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT), Hall in Tirol, AustriaCollege of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University, Nankai, ChinaSocial media data, for instance from Twitter or Facebook, provide a new type of data that consist of a mixture of text, image and video information. From a scientific point of view, the capabilities of this type of data from such microblogs are not well explored and to date it is largely unknown what principal knowledge can be extracted thereof. In this paper, we present a discussion of the capabilities of data from microblogs for performing a psychoanalysis. This could allow an analysis of the human personality of individual users. Such prospects raises serious concerns regarding the privacy of users of social media platforms.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02596/fullpsychoanalysiscomputational social sciencedata scienceprivacypsychology
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psychoanalysis
computational social science
data science
privacy
psychology
title Utilizing Social Media Data for Psychoanalysis to Study Human Personality
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title_short Utilizing Social Media Data for Psychoanalysis to Study Human Personality
title_sort utilizing social media data for psychoanalysis to study human personality
topic psychoanalysis
computational social science
data science
privacy
psychology
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