This document summarizes research into how social media impacts socialization. It discusses experiments showing how social media can help resocialize drug addicts by connecting them to positive online communities. Statistics on social media usage are provided, showing over 1.6 billion worldwide users across major platforms. The researchers analyzed Twitter hashtags related to socialization topics like society, culture, religion and politics over three years. Their findings illustrate how social media influences these topics and helps people understand different philosophies, indicating social media's positive role in socialization.

1. Mining the Social Web to Analyze the Impact of Social
Media on Socialization
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Md. Nazmus Sadat, Shibbir Ahmed, and Muhammad Tasnim Mohiuddin
Introduction
To Investigate the Role of Social Media in Socialization
Process
Objective
To Assess the influence of Social topics in Social Media
To Observe how Social Media assist People in Group
Socialization
To Analyze the Impact of Social Media as Agent
of Socialization along with Family, Age mates,
Teachers, Literature and Mass Media
Social Media & Socialization
Can Social Media help to Re-socialize Drug Addicts?
Experiment conducted by
Dutch organization
ikgebruik.nl
Finding drug addicts in society properly
Helping them to set up a Facebook profile
Guiding them to make better friends online
Helping them to gain self confidence and adapt
to noble qualities of better Facebook friends
Social Media for Re-Socialization
Social Media influence on Anticipatory Socialization
Social Media users can assess the customs and standards of
an organization and adapt themselves accordingly before
joining that organization.
Facebook Statistics [Jan, 2013]: total no. of Pages ~ 50
million ; average no. of posts per page ~ 36; a user
connects with 80 pages/groups on average.
All Social Media Statistics [Oct, 2013] ~1.61 billion
users worldwide using social media channels of
Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram etc.
Experimentation Environment
Obtain Twitter API Access
Use Consumer Key, Access
Token etc. to create Twitter API
Connection
Create OAuth
Access Token
Credentials
Create a demo app to get
OAuth credentials in Twitter’s
Developer Website
Install VirtualBox
Setup Virtual Machine
& Access IPython
Notebook
Install Vagrant
Clone Github
Repository of Mining
the Social Web
Initialize Vagrant
Access IPython
Notebook
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Popularity(onscaleof100)
Weeks ago
Art
Culture
Family
History
Politics
Religion
Society
Societ
y P:51.4
News
P:86.4
C:1.7
%
Culture
P:60.8
C:3.5%
Novosti
P:63.1
C:1.7%
Brand
P:61.8
C:1.5%
P:62.3
C:2.6%P:31.2
C:1.7%
P:67.8
C:3.2%
Mobile
P:68.6
C:1.5%
Life
P:75.1
C:2.9
%
Politics
P:67.2
C:2.1%
Technology
Humane
Economy
Most of the selected
Hashtags have Mean
Popularity Rating > 50
Hashtags Mean
Standard
Deviation
Society 59.222 3.011
Culture 44.667 2.162
Religion 43.024 1.333
Family 68.611 5.567
Politics 58.156 1.491
History 51.222 1.031
Art 68.444 0.497
Popularity Rating of
selected Hashtags does
not fluctuate much
Experimentation Result & Analysis
Based on the analysis
of tweets & hashtags
with higher frequency by
Mining Twitter data, we
have selected
7 keywords related to
Socialization:
# society
# culture
# religion
# family
# politics
# history
# art
Comparison of Popularity Trend of selected
Hashtags During Nov-Dec,2013 Statistical Analysis of Selected Hashtags
Twitter Hashtags Analysis using Hashtagify.me
Analysis with
Twitter #Society
for last 3 years
C:
Correlation
P:
Popularity
Conclusions
Illustrating the influence of Social topics in Social Media by
popularity and correlation of hashtags related to Socialization
Assessing that Social Media help people grasp the core of
culture, society, religion, politics or any other philosophy
Addressing an important issue of social networks-
how social networking indicates positive effect in
Socialization Process
Investigating the role of social media in socialization
process by Mining the Social Web
Realizing the significant existence of Social Media in
social life and its massive influence on Socialization
International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV)
23-24 May, 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh