TY - JOUR
T1 - Utilizing Social Media Data for Psychoanalysis to Study Human Personality
AU - Emmert-Streib, Frank
AU - Yli-Harja, Olli
AU - Dehmer, Matthias
PY - 2019/11/15
Y1 - 2019/11/15
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - computational social science
KW - data science
KW - privacy
KW - psychoanalysis
KW - psychology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075971230&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02596
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02596
M3 - Article
C2 - 31803123
AN - SCOPUS:85075971230
SN - 1664-1078
VL - 10
SP - 2596
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
M1 - 2596
ER -