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Snurb — Sunday 27 October 2013 04:17

How Partisan and Polarised Is #auspol?

Politics | Elections | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Twitter | AoIR 2013 |

This AoIR 2013 also contains a paper by Theresa Sauter and me, on the tone of debate in the #auspol hashtag for the discussion of Australian politics. Here are the slides - audio to follow now online as well...

Exploring Emotions on #auspol: Polarity and Public Performance in the Twitter Debate on Australian Politics from Axel Bruns

 

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Snurb — Sunday 27 October 2013 04:13

Symbolic Violence in the Brazilian Facebook Community

Social Media | AoIR 2013 |

The next panellist at AoIR 2013 is Raquel Recuero, whose interest is in symbolic violence in online spaces: violence which emerges from words, from discourse (and which is therefore caught up with humour and stigma). Networked publics, in which such violence circulates, are persistent and replicable.

Raquel's research investigates the Brazilian use of Facebook, and she points our that Brazilian teens are now leaving Facebook. Her study examines three Facebook meme pages: Depression Diva, which makes fun of models and other female celebrities (and whose humour about body issues, gender issues, and class divides is shared especially by …

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Snurb — Saturday 26 October 2013 14:52

Cumulative and Comparative Social Media Analytics for Crisis Communication (AoIR 2013)

Social Media | Social Media in Times of Crisis (ARC Linkage) | Crisis Communication | Twitter | AoIR 2013 |

AoIR 2013

Cumulative and Comparative Social Media Analytics for Crisis Communication

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, and Avijit Paul

  • 25 Oct. 2013 – Association of Internet Researchers conference, Denver
Cumulative and Comparative Social Media Analytics for Crisis Communication from Jean Burgess

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Snurb — Saturday 26 October 2013 14:45

Friends or Followers: German Soccer Clubs and Their Fans on Twitter (AoIR 2013)

Social Media | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Twitter | AoIR 2013 |

AoIR 2013

Friends or Followers: German Soccer Clubs and Their Fans on Twitter

Katrin Weller and Axel Bruns

  • 25 Oct. 2013 – Association of Internet Researchers conference, Denver
Friends or Followers: German Soccer Clubs and Their Fans on Twitter from Katrin Weller

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Snurb — Saturday 26 October 2013 07:58

Longitudinal Comparisons of Crisis Events on Twitter

Social Media | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Crisis Communication | Twitter | AoIR 2013 |

The final paper in this AoIR 2013 crisis communication panel is by Jean Burgess, Avijit Paul and me. The slides are below, and audio will follow later is now online as well...

Cumulative and Comparative Social Media Analytics for Crisis Communication from Jean Burgess

 

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Snurb — Saturday 26 October 2013 07:55

Critical Questions for Research into the Uses of Social Media in Crisis Communication

Social Media | Crisis Communication | Twitter | AoIR 2013 |

The third speaker on our AoIR 2013 crisis communication panel is Megan Finn. She begins by noting that the US Geological Survey is now using Twitter data to detect earthquakes - but more generally, there are also limits to the use of Twitter and other social media data, as not all groups in society are equally represented in such data, and in social media as such.

A disaster is traditionally defined as an event, concentrated in time and space, in which society undergoes severe data and essential functions of society are interrupted. But the components of this definition are problematic …

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Snurb — Saturday 26 October 2013 07:45

Social Media in the Mexican Drug Wars

Government | Social Media | Crisis Communication | Twitter | AoIR 2013 |

The next speaker in our AoIR 2013 panel on crisis communication is Andres Monroy-Hernandes, who focusses on emergency responses in the current Mexican drug war. Traditionally, emergency information has been disseminated by government officials and the media, but this is not necessarily the case in Mexico, due to the scale of civil disorder in the country: journalists and government organisations in northern Mexico are essentially operating under a self-imposed news blackout due to the pressure they feel from the druglords.

Instead, social media are increasingly adopted for information: citizens in lawless areas are warning each other of "risky situations" (shootings …

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Snurb — Saturday 26 October 2013 07:12

The Changing Shape of Emergency Responses

Social Media | Crisis Communication | Twitter | AoIR 2013 |

The next panel at AoIR 2013 is on crisis communication, and we have a paper in this one, too... We start, however, with Leysia Palen from the fabulous Project EPIC in Boulder, who begins with a general overview. Disasters are disruptive, unpredicted events which mean that normal daily routines cannot continue; emergencies become disasters when they overtax available local resources.

One aspect of disasters is mass convergence: a slower-motion convergence of people either in local locations or in spaces immediately outside the disaster zone - including affected residents, support staff, and curious onlookers. These groups are often organised around available …

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Snurb — Saturday 26 October 2013 06:22

How Twitter Covered Lance Armstrong's Downfall

Social Media | Twitter | AoIR 2013 |

The final speaker in this AoIR 2013 panel is Tim Highfield, whose focus is on the doping scandal surrounding Lance Armstrong between August 2013 and January 2013, from USADA stripping Armstrong of his titles to his confession interview with Oprah. This draws on a number of different datasets, including tweets mentioning @lancearmstrong during the 2012 Tour de France as well as tweets mentioning 'Armstrong' in subsequent months.

During the 2012 Tour, reports emerged that several riders had testified against Armstrong, generating substantial discussion with the Tour de France Twitter community as an extension of the fan/athlete para social interaction - …

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Snurb — Saturday 26 October 2013 06:15

Framing the Pistorius Case on Twitter

Social Media | Twitter | AoIR 2013 |

The second presenter in our AoIR 2013 celebrity crisis panel is Ana Vimieiro, whose focus is on the crisis around Oscar Pistorius following the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Ana's approach in this is to use frame analysis to explore how the crisis is being conceptualised by the users discussing it on Twitter.

There are various approaches to frame analysis: holistic variable coding, a textual focus on terms and expressions (which ultimately focusses on topics more than frames), and data reduction techniques which draw on clustering approaches. Ana is employing the latter model, coding the text for less …

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