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Snurb — Tuesday 17 November 2015 17:15

Easy Data, Hard Data: The Politics and Pragmatics of Twitter Research after the Computational Turn (AoIR 2015)

'Big Data' | Social Media | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | AoIR 2015 |

Association of Internet Researchers conference 2015

Easy Data, Hard Data: The Politics and Pragmatics of Twitter Research after the Computational Turn

Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns

  • 23 Oct. 2015 – Association of Internet Researchers conference, Phoenix
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Snurb — Tuesday 17 November 2015 17:04

Social Media in Selected Australian Federal and State Election Campaigns, 2010-15 (AoIR 2015)

Politics | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | AoIR 2015 |

Association of Internet Researchers conference

Social Media in Selected Australian Federal and State Election Campaigns, 2010-15

Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield

  • 23 Oct. 2015 – Association of Internet Researchers conference, Phoenix
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Snurb — Tuesday 17 November 2015 16:55

Agenda-Setting Revisited: Social Media and Sourcing in Mainstream Journalism (ECREA PC 2015)

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | ARC Future Fellowship | Conferences |

ECREA Political Communication conference 2015

Agenda-Setting Revisited: Social Media and Sourcing in Mainstream Journalism

Eli Skogerbø, Axel Bruns, Andrew Quodling, and Thomas Ingebretsen

  • 27 Aug. 2015 – ECREA Political Communication conference, Odense
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Snurb — Tuesday 17 November 2015 16:37

Social Media News Audiences and the Quantified Journalist (ICA 2015)

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Conferences |

International Communication Association conference 2015

Social Media News Audiences and the Quantified Journalist

Tim Highfield and Axel Bruns

  • 22 May 2015 – International Communication Association conference, Puerto Rico
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Snurb — Monday 26 October 2015 05:42

Four New Chapters on the Challenges of Doing Twitter Research

Politics | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Publications | AoIR 2015 |

One more post before I head home from the AoIR 2015 conference in Phoenix: during the conference, I also received my author’s copy of Hashtag Publics, an excellent new collection edited by Nathan Rambukkana. In this collection, Jean Burgess and I published an updated version of our paper from the ECPR conference in Reykjavík, which conceptualises (some) hashtag communities as ad hoc publics – and Theresa Sauter and I also have a chapter in the book that explores the #auspol hashtag for Australian politics.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “Twitter Hashtags from Ad Hoc to Calculated Publics.” …

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Snurb — Monday 26 October 2015 02:27

Exploring the Uses of Snapchat

Social Media | Mobile and Wireless Technologies | AoIR 2015 |

We move on in this session at AoIR 2015 to Nicole Ellison, who highlights the different frames through which we might understand mobile uses; one is the affordances frame which might highlight the differences between content persistence and ephemerality, for instance. She points to Snapchat in this context, as a particularly interesting object of research.

Snapchat uses were studied here by exploring the interaction experiences of a cohort of undergraduates across different media and using Snapchat as the baseline. They were surveyed for instance on the pleasantness of their interactions (where face-to-face ranked high, email and texting low); on supportiveness …

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Snurb — Sunday 25 October 2015 03:04

Young Estonians' Everyday Political Uses of Social Media

Politics | Social Media | AoIR 2015 |

The next AoIR 2015 speaker is Katrin Tiidenberg, whose focus is on young Estonians' social media use. European electoral turnout has been on a steady decline, especially amongst young people, but some forms of non-institutional political participation are on the rise; young people's lives have changed considerably over past decades, and this may have given greater emphasis to everyday political activities over formal political participation.

This research, then, focusses largely on ordinary young people, and on the political dimensions of their social media practices. Three key social media mechanisms are relevant here: social media provide information, produce social pressure, and …

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Snurb — Sunday 25 October 2015 03:02

The Changing Features of Communication on Twitter

Social Media | Twitter | AoIR 2015 |

Up next in this AoIR 2015 session is Sava Saheli Singh, whose focus is on subverting social media. Our use of such social media, such as Twitter, is shaped by the biases built-in by the people who design these spaces; and these have changed over time. Users reinterpret and repurpose the features of social media spaces, so there is a constant struggle between platform providers and users.

In academic communities and elsewhere, there is a common use of Twitter called subtweeting: speaking about someone behind their back in as anonymous a way as to maintain plausible deniability; the same …

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Snurb — Sunday 25 October 2015 03:00

Understanding the Uses of Political Bots

Politics | Social Media | AoIR 2015 |

The final day of AoIR 2015 has dawned, and it begins with a paper by Samuel Woolley; his interest is in political bots. Bots are software tools that automate human tasks on the Web; political bots, then, are social bots that engage with human users, largely through social media, to promote specific political causes.

The project has built a broad dataset of events that bots were involved in, is engaging with bot coders on an international basis, and will use this to build computational theory. The focus here is on stage one, though: the collection of cases in which political …

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Snurb — Saturday 24 October 2015 15:27

Moving beyond First-Person Platform Studies

'Big Data' | Social Media | AoIR 2015 |

Finally in this AoIR 2015 session, we move on to Greg Elmer, one of the editors of Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data. His contribution is focussed on the practice of collecting data from social media sites, some of which is done using some very simple Web scraping tools (as Edward Snowden did at the NSA, apparently).

Scraping is now a common practice in a number of contexts; some sites scrape from mainstream news sites in order to gain better search rankings, for example. Google briefly introduced a tool to identify where site content had been scraped …

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