{"id":747,"date":"2011-07-27T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/?p=747"},"modified":"2012-04-10T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T04:28:15","slug":"looking-back-at-the-world-according-to-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2011\/07\/27\/looking-back-at-the-world-according-to-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back at ‘The World According to Twitter’"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a month ago now, more than 15 Australian and international researchers as well as industry representatives came together at QUT to participate in the interdisciplinary research workshop The World According to Twitter (<\/em>#WAT11) which set out to explore innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to researching Twitter, to develop a better overview of current topics, purposes, and applications of Twitter research, identify key research questions, and share possible methodological approaches for addressing them. The workshop was held in the context of Axel and Jean’s collaboration with the University of D\u00fcsseldorf Junior Researchers Group “Science and the Internet”<\/a> and saw visiting fellows Katrin Weller and Cornelius Puschmann amongst the group of presenters.<\/p>\n

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From left to right: Katrin Weller, Stephen Harrington, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess and Cornelius Puschmann at the The World According To Twitter workshop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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As indicated on the original workshop invitation, the presentations on the day focused on two key areas:<\/p>\n