Understanding Online Behaviors through a Temporal Lens

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05996v2
• Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 02:04:02 GMT
• Title: Understanding Online Behaviors through a Temporal Lens
• Authors: Tai-Quan Peng, Jonathan J. H. Zhu
• Abstract summary: The concept of time is under-explicated in empirical studies of online behaviors. Time-in-behaviors perspective can provide a microscope with a renovated temporal lens to observe and understand online behaviors.
• Score: 0.228438857884398
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Timestamps in digital traces include significant detailed information on when human behaviors occur, which is universally available and standardized in all types of digital traces. Nevertheless, the concept of time is under-explicated in empirical studies of online behaviors. This paper discusses the (un)desirable properties of timestamps in digital traces and summarizes how timestamps in digital traces have been utilized in existing studies of online behaviors. The paper argues that time-in-behaviors perspective can provide a microscope with a renovated temporal lens to observe and understand online behaviors. Going beyond the traditional behaviors-in-time perspective, time-in-behaviors perspective enables empirical examination of online behaviors from multiple units of analysis (e.g., discrete behaviors, behavioral sessions, and behavioral trajectories) and from multiple dimensions (e.g., duration, order, transition, rhythm). The paper shows the potentials of the time-in-behaviors perspective with several empirical cases and proposes future directions in explicating the concept of time in computational social science.

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