the pleasures and perils of studying twitter
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Presentation at "Researching Social Media Conference" #rsmconf13, Sheffield, UK, Nov. 4th 2013. http://researchingsocialmediaconference.wordpress.com/TRANSCRIPT
THE PLEASURES
AND PERILS
of Studying Twitter
Katrin Weller #rsmconf13 Researching Social Media Conference, Nov. 4th 2013, Sheffield
Background
#diata11 #diata12
#hiddendataproject
#gesisworkshops @twitsocbook
Personal background
Twitter research on the rise
SCOPUS search: TITLE(twitter) AND PUBYEAR > 2005, 22.08.2013.
Twitter vs. Facebook
Scopus (TITLE-ABS-KEY(Twitter) AND PUBYEAR > 2006) (TITLE-ABS-KEY(Facebook) AND PUBYEAR > 2006)
10 pleasures and perils
#1
de-banalizing Twitter
Richard Rogers: Foreword. In: Twitter and
Society, 2013
#2
rich content, simple structure
#3
Simple structure? Theories?
#4
API data access
#5
API data access
#6
data haves, data have-nots
boyd, danah and Kate Crawford. (2012).
“Critical Questions for Big Data”
#7
Who‘s on Twitter?
Local Following
#8
Ethics?
#9
Methods and standards?
#10
No explicit methods and standards
Outlook
Forgotten features? images, favorites
Cross-platform studies •
multi-method approaches •
interdisciplinary work
Longitudinal studies •
comparisons
Shared datasets? •
Historical perspectives
Exciting work ahead!
THANK YOU!
Katrin Weller
@kwelle
http://katrinweller.net
www.gesis.org/en
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