Social Media Network Analysis of Academic Urologists’ Interaction Within Twitter Microblogging Environment
ObjectiveTo characterize academic urology Twitter presence and interaction by subspecialty designation.MethodsUsing Twitter application programming interface of available data, 94000 specific tweets were extracted for the analysis through the Twitter Developer Program. Academic urologists were defin...
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| Vydané v: | Société internationale d'urologie journal Ročník 4; číslo 2; s. 96 - 104 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | English |
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15.03.2023
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| ISSN: | 2563-6499, 2563-6499 |
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| Shrnutí: | ObjectiveTo characterize academic urology Twitter presence and interaction by
subspecialty designation.MethodsUsing Twitter application programming interface of
available data, 94000 specific tweets were extracted for the analysis through the
Twitter Developer Program. Academic urologists were defined based on American Urological
Association (AUA) residency program registration of 143 residency programs, with a total
of 2377 faculty. Two of 3-factor verification (name, location, specialty) of faculty
Twitter account was used. Additional faculty information including sex, program
location, and subspecialty were manually recorded. All elements of microblogging were
captured through Anaconda Navigator. Analyzed tweets were further evaluated using
natural language processing for sentiment association, mentions, and quote tweeted and
retweeted. Network analysis based on interactions of academic urologist within specialty
for given topic were analyzed using D3 in JavaScript. Analysis was performed in Python
and R.ResultsWe identified 143 residency programs with a total of 2377 faculty (1975 men
and 402 women). Among all faculty, 945 (39.7%) had registered Twitter accounts, with the
majority being men (759 [80.40%] versus 185 [19.60%]). Although there were more male
academic urologists across programs, women within academic urology were more likely to
have a registered Twitter account overall (46% versus 38.5%) compared with men. When
assessing registered accounts by sex, there was a peak for male faculty in 2014 (10.05%
of all accounts registered) and peak for female faculty in 2015 (2.65%). There was no
notable change in faculty account registration during COVID-19 (2019–2020). In 2022,
oncology represented the highest total number of registered Twitter users (225), with
the highest number of total tweets (24622), followers (138541), and tweets per user per
day (0.32). However, andrology (50%) and reconstruction (51.3%) were 2 of the highest
proportionally represented subspecialties within academic urology. Within the context of
conversation surrounding a specified topic (#aua21), female pelvic medicine and
reconstructive surgery (FPMRS) and endourology demonstrated the total highest number of
intersubspecialty conversations.ConclusionsThere is a steady increase in Twitter
representation among academic urologists, largely unaffected by COVID-19. While urologic
oncology represents the largest group, andrology and reconstructive urology represent
the highest proportion of their respective subspecialties. Interaction analysis
highlights the variant interaction among subspecialties based on topic, with strong
direct ties between endourology, FPMRS, and oncology. |
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| ISSN: | 2563-6499 2563-6499 |
| DOI: | 10.48083/TKEK6928 |