The New Acropolis Museum on Twitter: Seven Years After

Ifigeneia Mylona; Dimitrios Amanatidis

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The New Acropolis Museum on Twitter: Seven Years After

Ifigeneia Mylona, Dimitrios Amanatidis

Published in Advances in Sciences and Humanities (Volume 3, Issue 5)

Received: 31 December 2016 Accepted: 12 January 2017 Published: 24 October 2017

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Abstract

Most museums around the world understand the importance of social media in order to promote their services, provide information to their future visitors, enable the communication interaction and create strong relationship with them. In this work we extract all tweets referring to the New Acropolis Museum in Greece. This spans the entire seven year time interval, from the first day that the specific account was created, up to the current day. We analyze the network of tweets and derive valuable information with respect to the engagement of users and discover other structural and conversational patterns that help us gain insight in this dialogue. A simple sentiment analysis reveals that the users hold a positive attitude towards the museum.

Published in	Advances in Sciences and Humanities (Volume 3, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ash.20170305.14
Page(s)	61-72
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2017. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Communication, Social Media, Twitter, NodeXL, Acropolis Museum

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Ifigeneia Mylona

Department of Digital Media and Communication, Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia, Kastoria, Greece
Dimitrios Amanatidis

Department of Digital Media and Communication, Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia, Kastoria, Greece

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