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Twitter Research Methods

Snurb, 29 June 2011
Following on from the “World According to Twitter” research workshop at QUT, today we presented our research methods at a pre-conference workshop at Communities & Technologies 2011. This was probably the most extensive presentation of our [...]

Gawk Scripts for Processing Twitter Data, Vol. 1

Snurb, 22 June 2011
Well, getting stuck in Melbourne for a day and being unable to participate in day one of our ATN-DAAD workshop with Cornelius Puschmann and Katrin Weller from the University of Düsseldorf has at least enabled me [...]

Switching from Twapperkeeper to yourTwapperkeeper

Switching from Twapperkeeper to yourTwapperkeeper

Snurb, 21 June 2011
As those of you who are regular followers of our research might have gleaned already, we’ve started a few months ago to use yourTwapperkeeper to gather our Twitter data. yourTwapperkeeper is the open source version of [...]

Australian Blogosphere – Categorisation Process

Australian Blogosphere – Categorisation Process

Aimee Hewson, 3 February 2011
Over the past few weeks, as part of the VRES program at QUT, I have been assisting Axel and Jean on their Social Media Mapping project.    The aim of the project is to try to understand [...]

Visualising Twitter Dynamics in Gephi, Part 2

Snurb, 30 December 2010
OK, so this is the second part of my post on turning Twitter data from Twapperkeeper into a dynamic network visualisation in Gephi. Last night’s post did the groundwork, generating a GEXF file from our #spill [...]

Visualising Twitter Dynamics in Gephi, Part 1

Snurb, 30 December 2010
In the following posts I’m finally keeping my promise to explore in earnest the use of Gephi‘s dynamic timeline feature for visualising Twitter-based discussions as they unfolded in real time. A few months ago, Jean posted [...]

Dynamic Networks in Gephi: From Twapperkeeper to GEXF

Dynamic Networks in Gephi: From Twapperkeeper to GEXF

Snurb, 20 October 2010
In between last week’s ECREA conference in Hamburg, where we presented some of our methodologies and early outcomes from the Mapping Online Publics project, and the AoIR conference in Gothenburg, where we’ll talk some more about [...]

Mapping Online Publics: Methodological Observations

Mapping Online Publics: Methodological Observations

Snurb, 12 October 2010
(Cross-posted from snurb.info, where you can also find more liveblogging from the DGMS and ECREA 2010 conferences.) Bremen. My CCI colleague Jean Burgess and I are currently in Bremen for the ‘Doing Global Media Studies’ pre-conference [...]

More Blog Network Data Cleaning with Gawk

More Blog Network Data Cleaning with Gawk

Snurb, 22 September 2010
The other day I outlined some first steps in cleaning our blog network data (generated by our partner researchers at Sociomantic Labs) ahead of visualising it, and posted a first tentative visualisation of the part of [...]

First Steps in Mapping the Australian Blogosphere

First Steps in Mapping the Australian Blogosphere

Snurb, 20 September 2010
Following on from my previous post about the methods we’re starting to use to make sense of the Australian blogosphere data we’re receiving from our colleagues at Sociomantic Labs, here’s a first look at what happens [...]