{"id":2716,"date":"2013-11-04T09:56:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T23:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2013-11-27T15:24:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T05:24:35","slug":"announcing-twitter-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2013\/11\/04\/announcing-twitter-and-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Twitter and Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Much of the focus of this site in recent years has been on Twitter<\/em> research, often in collaboration with our various colleagues and friends around the world. We\u2019ve tried our best to help along the development of Twitter<\/em> research methods and approaches by exploring the uses of Twitter<\/em>, contributing to methodological innovation in the field, and documenting our approaches and findings in order to enable others to replicate our studies and test our results. In this context it\u2019s been especially exciting for us to be able to launch our new book Twitter and Society<\/a><\/em>, edited by Katrin Weller, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Merja Mahrt, and Cornelius Puschmann, at the Association of Internet Researchers conference<\/a> in Denver a few days ago. The book is now available in paperback and hardcover from Amazon<\/a>\"\" and the Peter Lang<\/a> Website, and an eBook version will also become available shortly.<\/p>\n

The book is a 450-page anthology of the very best of current Twitter<\/em> research, providing a comprehensive overview of research methods, concepts, challenges, and applications. It features some 31 chapters, a foreword by the University of Amsterdam\u2019s Richard Rogers \u2013 and we\u2019re particularly proud to have been able to use the painting Die Zwitschermaschine<\/em> (The Twittering Machine<\/em>) by Paul Klee as the book cover. Many, many thanks to our 45 contributors for their fabulous contributions. A full list of chapters is below \u2013 and you can also follow further updates about the book at @twitsocbook<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/h2>\n

Foreword: Debanalising Twitter: The Transformation of an Object of Study
\nRichard Rogers<\/p>\n

Twitter and Society: An Introduction
\nKatrin Weller, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Merja Mahrt, & Cornelius Puschmann<\/p>\n

Part I: Concepts and Methods<\/h3>\n

CONCEPTS<\/h4>\n

1 Twitter and the Rise of Personal Publics
\nJan-Hinrik Schmidt<\/p>\n

2 Structural Layers of Communication on Twitter
\nAxel Bruns & Hallvard Moe<\/p>\n

3 Structure of Twitter: Social and Technical
\nAlexander Halavais<\/p>\n

4 The Politics of Twitter Data
\nCornelius Puschmann & Jean Burgess<\/p>\n

METHODS<\/h4>\n

5 Data Collection on Twitter
\nDevin Gaffney & Cornelius Puschmann<\/p>\n

6 Metrics for Understanding Communication on Twitter
\nAxel Bruns & Stefan Stieglitz<\/p>\n

7 Sentiment Analysis and Time Series with Twitter
\nMike Thelwall<\/p>\n

8 Computer-Assisted Content Analysis of Twitter Data
\nJessica Einsp\u00e4nner, Mark Dang-Anh, & Caja Thimm<\/p>\n

9 Ethnographic and Qualitative Research on Twitter
\nAlice E. Marwick<\/p>\n

10 Legal Questions of Twitter Research
\nMichael Beurskens<\/p>\n

Part II: Perspectives and Practices<\/h3>\n

PERSPECTIVES<\/h4>\n

11 From #FollowFriday to YOLO: Exploring the Cultural Salience of Twitter Memes
\nAlex Leavitt<\/p>\n

12 Twitter and Geographical Location
\nRowan Wilken<\/p>\n

13 Privacy on Twitter, Twitter on Privacy
\nMichael Zimmer & Nicholas Proferes<\/p>\n

14 Automated Twitter Accounts
\nMiranda Mowbray<\/p>\n

15 Information Retrieval for Twitter Data
\nKe Tao, Claudia Hauff, Fabian Abel, & Geert-Jan Houben<\/p>\n

16 Documenting Contemporary Society by Preserving Relevant Information from Twitter
\nThomas Risse, Wim Peters, Pierre Senellart, & Diana Maynard<\/p>\n

PRACTICES<\/h4>\n

Popular Culture<\/h5>\n

17 The Perils and Pleasures of Tweeting with Fans
\nNancy Baym<\/p>\n

18 Tweeting about the Telly: Live TV, Audiences, and Social Media
\nStephen Harrington<\/p>\n

19 Following the Yellow Jersey: Tweeting the Tour de France
\nTim Highfield<\/p>\n

20 Twitter and Sports: Football Fandom in Emerging and Established Markets
\nAxel Bruns, Katrin Weller, & Stephen Harrington<\/p>\n

Brand Communication<\/h5>\n

21 Public Enterprise-Related Communication and Its Impact on Social Media Issue Management
\nStefan Stieglitz & Nina Kr\u00fcger<\/p>\n

22 Twitter, Brands, and User Engagement
\nTanya Nitins & Jean Burgess<\/p>\n

Politics and Activism<\/h5>\n

23 Political Discourses on Twitter: Networking Topics, Objects, and People
\nAxel Maireder & Julian Ausserhofer<\/p>\n

24 Twitter in Politics and Elections: Insights from Scandinavia
\nAnders Olof Larsson & Hallvard Moe<\/p>\n

25 The Gift of the Gab: Retweet Cartels and Gift Economies on Twitter
\nJohannes Pa\u00dfmann, Thomas Boeschoten, & Mirko Tobias Sch\u00e4fer<\/p>\n

Journalism<\/h5>\n

26 The Use of Twitter by Professional Journalists: Results of a Newsroom Survey in Germany
\nChristoph Neuberger, Hanna Jo vom Hofe, & Christian Nuernbergk<\/p>\n

27 Twitter as an Ambient News Network
\nAlfred Hermida<\/p>\n

Crisis Communication<\/h5>\n

28 Crisis Communication in Natural Disasters
\nAxel Bruns & Jean Burgess<\/p>\n

29 Twitpic-ing the Riots: Analysing Images Shared on Twitter during the 2011 U.K. Riots
\nFarida Vis, Simon Faulkner, Katy Parry, Yana Manyukhina, & Lisa Evans<\/p>\n

Twitter in Academia<\/h5>\n

30 Twitter in Scholarly Communication
\nMerja Mahrt, Katrin Weller, & Isabella Peters<\/p>\n

31 How Useful Is Twitter for Learning in Massive Communities? An Analysis of Two MOOCs
\nTimo van Treeck & Martin Ebner<\/p>\n

Epilogue: Why Study Twitter?
\nCornelius Puschmann, Axel Bruns, Merja Mahrt, Katrin Weller, and Jean Burgess<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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