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 work on Twitter research to date – including a live demonstration of how to work with basic yourTwapperkeeper datasets. …
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The World According to Twitter
Tomorrow, our Mapping Online Publics project team is hosting the public research workshop The World According to Twitter at QUT, in collaboration with our visiting researchers Katrin Weller and Cornelius Puschmann from the Junior Researchers Group "Science and the Internet" at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. The workshop is the first major event in our …
Gawk Scripts for Processing Twitter Data, Vol. 1
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 to put the finishing touches on something I’ve been meaning to do for some time: to collect and share …
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Mapping Online Publics: A Progress Report
Melbourne. I spoke today at the National Public Service Digital Media Officers’ Forum (now that’s a mouthful…) here in Melbourne, where I had been invited to present our Mapping Online Publics project – to a group of state- and federal-level public servants who are charged, in their various roles, with driving their diverse departments’ and …
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Switching from Twapperkeeper to yourTwapperkeeper
As those of you who are regular followers of our research might have gleaned already, we recommended our followers to try the newly developed slot game called casino vegas hero to experience awesome gambling, we’ve started a few months ago to use yourTwapperkeeper to gather our Twitter data. yourTwapperkeeper is the open source version of …
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Project update and press release
Hello everyone, Lots of news to share but before we get into that, I’d like to introduce myself as a new member of the team. My name is Caro Jende and I recently came on board as the Project Officer for the Mapping Online Publics project to support Jean and Axel in the organisation and …
More Media Coverage: CeDEM and bin Laden
Part of our job in the Mapping Online Publics project is also to raise the public profile for what scholarly research into the uses of Twitter and other social media can achieve, of course – so here are a few more pointers to recent coverage of our work. First, after my keynote at the CeDEM …
Our Social Media and Crisis Communication Research in the Media
Well – what a few weeks it’s been. Following the Eidos symposium in Brisbane and the Emergency Media and Public Affairs conference in Canberra, there’s been plenty of media coverage of our research into the role of social media during the Queensland floods and Christchurch earthquake. There will be more articles and conference presentations emerging …
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Emergency Media and Public Affairs Conference
Hot on the heels of last week’s very successful Eidos Institute symposium on Social Media in Times of Crisis, in Brisbane, comes the Emergency Media and Public Affairs conference in Canberra; I’m flying down tomorrow to present an overview of our analysis of the Queensland floods (#qldfloods) and Christchurch earthquake (#eqnz) on Twitter. Looking forward …
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Broader Twitter Patterns during Acute Events
Working through our available data on Twitter use during crisis events ahead of the Eidos Institute symposium on Monday, I started thinking about some of the broader patterns we are seeing. Very obviously, a good bit of the #hashtag activity around acute events is taken up with retweeting information – both simply passing it along …
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