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What’s new in social media research? A quick guide through recent publications (2012-2013) for social scientists. March 4, 2014 General Online Research (GOR 14), Köln Dr. Katrin Weller, [email protected], @kwelle http://katrinweller.net
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What’s new in social media research? A quick guide through recent publications
(2012-2013) for social scientists
March 4, 2014 General Online Research (GOR 14), Köln
Dr. Katrin Weller, [email protected], @kwelle
http://katrinweller.net
Welcome!
Dr. Katrin Weller GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Data Archive for the Social Sciences 2006-2012: Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, PhD in Information Science. Weller, K., Bruns, A., Burgess, J., Mahrt, M., & Puschmann, C. (Eds.) (2014). Twitter and Society. New York et al.: Peter Lang.
Questions!
Slides via: http://katrinweller.net/teaching/ Or: http://de.slideshare.net/katrinweller
Outline of this workshop
Part 1: the story so far Part 2: 2012-2013
Social media research – some insights from bibliometrics
• Scopus • Web of Science • Google Scholar
457,000
4,991 19,440 The story so far…
Scopus • 21,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, 20,000 peer-
reviewed journals (including 2,600 open access journals), 390 trade publications, 370 book series, 5.5 million conference papers
• (TITLE-ABS-KEY("social media") OR TITLE-ABS-KEY("social web") OR TITLE-ABS-KEY("social software") OR TITLE-ABS-KEY("web 2.0")) AND PUBYEAR > 1999
Social media research 2000-today
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No. of publications (Scopus)
Scopus: 2000-today by subject area
10650; 36%
5542; 19% 2384
2288
2151
1535
773
772
65 Computer ScienceSocial SciencesEngineeringMedicineBusiness, Management and AccountingMathematicsArts and HumanitiesDecision SciencesPsychologyNursingEconomics, Econometrics and FinanceBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyHealth ProfessionsEnvironmental ScienceEarth and Planetary SciencesAgricultural and Biological SciencesPharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsPhysics and AstronomyMaterials ScienceMultidisciplinaryNeuroscienceImmunology and MicrobiologyChemical EngineeringVeterinaryDentistryChemistryEnergy
Scopus: 2000-today by country
0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000
United StatesUnited Kingdom
GermanyAustralia
ChinaSpain
CanadaItaly
FranceTaiwan
NetherlandsSouth Korea
FinlandAustria
JapanGreece
IndiaSingapore
SwitzerlandHong Kong
Ireland
Scopus: 2000-today popular keywords
Social networks (897), Social network (657)
User interfaces (1,007)
Social networking (online) (2,291)
Facebook (847)
Knowledge management (860)
Web services (869) Information systems (810) Twitter (667)
Semantics(765), Semantic Web(669)
Communication(650)
Information technology (639)
E-learning (623), Students(579) Education(520) Teachung (504)
Scopus: 2000-today popular keywords
Social networks (897), Social network (657)
Blogs(343), Blogging(324), Blog(161)
Social networking (online) (2,291)
Facebook (847) Microblogging(186) Twitter (667)
Wiki(192), Wikipedia(192)
YouTube(273)
WoS
WoS: 2000-today by year
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WoS publications
Scopus and WoS: 2000-today by year
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Scopus
WoS: 2000-today by research areas
1157; 24%
835; 17%
586; 12%
583; 12%
492; 10%
328; 7%
234; 5%
212; 5%
199; 4%
168; 4%
COMPUTER SCIENCE
INFORMATION SCIENCE LIBRARY SCIENCE
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
COMMUNICATION
EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
ENGINEERING
PSYCHOLOGY
HEALTH CARE SCIENCES SERVICES
SOCIAL SCIENCES OTHER TOPICS
SOCIOLOGY
WoS: 2000-today by category
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900
INFORMATION SCIENCE LIBRARY SCIENCECOMPUTER SCIENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
COMMUNICATIONEDUCATION EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
BUSINESSCOMPUTER SCIENCE SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGCOMPUTER SCIENCE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
MANAGEMENTHEALTH CARE SCIENCES SERVICES
COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY METHODSENGINEERING ELECTRICAL ELECTRONIC
SOCIOLOGYCOMPUTER SCIENCE INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS
PUBLIC ENVIRONMENTAL OCCUPATIONAL HEALTHMEDICAL INFORMATICS
PSYCHOLOGY MULTIDISCIPLINARYTELECOMMUNICATIONS
OPERATIONS RESEARCH MANAGEMENT SCIENCESOCIAL SCIENCES INTERDISCIPLINARY
MEDICINE GENERAL INTERNALPSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL
EDUCATION SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINESNURSING
COMPUTER SCIENCE CYBERNETICSMULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES
Google Scholar
Social sciences
Scopus: Social sciences 2000-today
5,542
Scopus: 2000-today
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Scopus totalScopus social sciance
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United StatesUnited Kingdom
AustraliaSpain
CanadaGermany
ChinaNetherlands
ItalyTaiwan
SwedenFinlandFrance
Hong KongNew Zealand
SingaporeSouth Korea
GreeceIndia
AustriaTurkey
DenmarkMalaysia
BrazilIreland
SwitzerlandBelgium
IsraelPortugal
South AfricaJapan
RomaniaNorwayMexicoEstonia
HungaryNigeria
Colombia
Scopus: 2000-today
Scopus: 2000-today
Article; 3858; 70%
Conference Paper; 983; 18%
Review; 301; 5%
Article in Press; 135;
2%
Editorial; 61; 1%
Book Chapter; 57; 1%
Conference Review; 53; 1%
Note; 37; 1%
Short Survey; 36; 1%
Letter; 10; 0%
Book; 9; 0%
Erratum; 2; 0%
Interdisciplinary field?
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Social SciencesComputer Science
Business, Management and AccountingArts and Humanities
EngineeringMedicine
PsychologyDecision Sciences
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceEnvironmental Science
Earth and Planetary SciencesNursing
MathematicsHealth Professions
Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsAgricultural and Biological Sciences
DentistryScopus: Social sciences 2000-today
Scopus: 2000-today popular keywords (social science)
Web 2.0(1,466) Social media(1,364) Internet(552) World Wide Web(448) Social networking (online)(300) Students(277) E-learning(275) Facebook(248) Teaching(226) Information systems(213) Twitter(210) Human(199) Humans(196) Education(188)
Communication(179) Social software(177) Technology(177) Article(172) Social networking(170) Social networks(167) Social Media(166) Engineering education(160) Research(149) Knowledge management(137) Blogs(131) Higher education(128) Information technology(119) Social network(119) Web services(119)
Social Networks(101) Learning(96) User interfaces(96) Collaborative learning(95) Collaboration(94) Websites(91) Social networking sites(90) Wiki(86) Libraries(84) Methodology(84) Curricula(77) Innovation(77) Learning systems(74) Marketing(74) Blogging(73) Design(71) Male(71) Academic libraries(70) Virtual reality(70) Female(68) Privacy(68)
Top authors (all years)
10 or more papers: • Thomas Cochrane • Catherine McLoughlin • Denis Gillet • Axel Bruns
Top journals (social science papers)
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Information Communication and Society
Public Relations Review
Econtent
Profesional De La Informacion
Proceedings of the Asist Annual Meeting
New Media and Society
First Monday
Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences
18th Americas Conference on Information Systems…
Cutting Edge Technologies in Higher Education
Top cited papers (more than 100 citations) Authors Title Year Source title
Volume
Issue
Page start
Page end
Cited by
Boulos, M.N.K., Wheeler, S. The emerging Web 2.0 social software: An enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education 2007
Health Information and Libraries Journal 24 1 2 23 304
Adamic, L., Adar, E. How to search a social network 2005 Social Networks 27 3 187 203 208
Greenhow, C., Robelia, B., Hughes, J.E.
Learning, teaching, and scholarship in a digital age: Web 2.0 and classroom research: What path should we take now? 2009 Educational Researcher 38 4 246 259 166
Xiang, Z., Gretzel, U. Role of social media in online travel information search 2010 Tourism Management 31 2 179 188 146 Wheeler, S., Yeomans, P., Wheeler, D.
The good, the bad and the wiki: Evaluating student-generated content for collaborative learning 2008
British Journal of Educational Technology 39 6 987 995 117
Waters, R.D., Burnett, E., Lamm, A., Lucas, J.
Engaging stakeholders through social networking: How nonprofit organizations are using Facebook 2009 Public Relations Review 35 2 102 106 116
Ajjan, H., Hartshorne, R. Investigating faculty decisions to adopt Web 2.0 technologies: Theory and empirical tests 2008
Internet and Higher Education 11 2 71 80 114
Ritzer, G., Jurgenson, N. Production, Consumption, Prosumption: The nature of capitalism in the age of the digital 'prosumer' 2010
Journal of Consumer Culture 10 1 13 36 113
Marwick, A.E., Boyd, D. I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience 2011 New Media and Society 13 1 114 133 111
Maness, J.M. Library 2.0 theory: Web 2.0 and its implications for libraries 2006 Webology 3 2 110
Bertot, J.C., Jaeger, P.T., Grimes, J.M.
Using ICTs to create a culture of transparency: E-government and social media as openness and anti-corruption tools for societies 2010
Government Information Quarterly 27 3 264 271 109
Beldarrain, Y. Distance education trends: Integrating new technologies to foster student interaction and collaboration 2006 Distance Education 27 2 139 153 109
Top cited papers: topics 1. Email analysis; Online communities; Small world experiment; Social networks 2. Classroom research; Computers and learning; Educational reform; Instructional
technologies; Research methodology; Technology 3. Internet marketing; Online tourism domain; Search engine; Social media; Travel
information search 4. Facebook; Nonprofit organizations; Social media; Social networking 5. Decomposed theory of planned behavior; Emerging technologies; Factor
analysis; Faculty adoption; Faculty perceptions; Web 2.0 6. Consumption; Facebook; Prosumption; Social networking sites; Web 2.0 7. audience; context; identity; micro-celebrity; self-presentation; social media;
Twitter 8. Blog; Library 2.0; Mashup; RSS; Social network; Streaming media; Tagging; Web
2.0; Wiki 9. E-government; ICT; Social media; Transparency
Social science papers in 2012
• 1237 papers (136% of 2011) • Out of 4328 papers in all disciplines (29%).
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Social science papers in 2013
• 1398 papers (113% of 2012). • Out of 4689 papers in all disciplines (30%).
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Interdisciplinarity
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Social SciencesComputer Science
Arts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and…
Decision SciencesMedicine
EngineeringPsychology
MathematicsEconomics, Econometrics and…
0 500 1000 1500
Social SciencesComputer Science
Arts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and…
EngineeringMedicine
PsychologyEconomics, Econometrics and…
Decision SciencesEnvironmental Science
2012 2013
Document types
2012 2013
Article; 896; 72%
Conference Paper; 175;
14%
Review; 94; 8%
Book Chapter; 19; 2%
Editorial; 17; 1%
Conference Review; 16; 1%
Article in Press; 7;
1%
Note; 7; 1% Book; 4; 0%
Letter; 2; 0%
Article; 1065; 76%
Conference Paper; 112; 8%
Article in Press; 91; 7%
Review; 56; 4%
Book Chapter; 19; 1%
Editorial; 17; 1%
Short Survey; 10; 1%
Conference Review; 9; 1%
Note; 8; 1%
Letter; 6; 0%
Book; 3; 0%
Erratum; 2; 0%
Countries (top 10)
2012 2013
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Top authors (3 or more papers)
2012 2013 AUTHOR NAME Ritzer, G. 4 Arias, J.J.P. 4 Grensing-Pophal, L. 4 Vilas, A.F. 4 Bruns, A. 3 Kailanto, M. 3 Jurgenson, N. 3 Davis, K. 3 Lee, C.S. 3 Fuchs, C. 3 Alemu, G. 3 George, D.R. 3 Huhtamaki, J. 3 Liu, B.F. 3
Marttila, J. 3 Moreno, M.A. 3 Partridge, H. 3 Quan-Haase, A. 3 Rambe, P. 3 Redondo, R.P.D. 3 Ross, P. 3 Tebest, T. 3 Shah, C. 3 Sigala, M. 3 Silius, K. 3 Stevens, B. 3 Tervakari, A.M. 3 Waters, R.D. 3
Bruns, A. 5 Hajli, M. 4 Cochrane, T. 4 Mergel, I. 4 Stefanidis, A. 4 Williams, M. 4 Crooks, A. 3 Freberg, K. 3 Highfield, T. 3 Burnap, P. 3 Hawthorne, J. 3 Baro, E.E. 3 Ellison, N.B. 3 Edwards, A. 3
Housley, W. 3 He, W. 3 McCorkindale, T. 3 Procter, R. 3 Radzikowski, J. 3 Gillet, D. 3 Sloan, L. 3 Stieglitz, S. 3 Thorson, K. 3 Valtonen, T. 3 Vergeer, M. 3 Vraga, E.K. 3 Wells, C. 3 Reddick, C.G. 3
Topics 2012 (keywords used more than ten times)
Social media(418), Web 2.0(272), Internet(107), Social networking (online)(84), Information systems(73), Social Media(72), Human(68), Humans(68), World Wide Web(67), Facebook(62), Students(61), Article(57), Twitter(56), E-learning(50), Social networks(45), Engineering education(43), Communication(38), Social network(35), Research(34), Teaching(33), Social networking(31), Education(30), Methodology(30), Female(29), Male(29), Social Networks(29), Higher education(27), Technology(26), Information technology(25), Adult(24), Learning(21), Collaboration(20), Knowledge management(20), Psychological aspect(20), Social networking sites(20), Academic libraries(19), Collaborative learning(19), Social Networking(19), Websites(19), Blogging(17), Learning systems(17), Marketing(17), United States(17), User-generated content(17), Wiki(17), Blogs(16), Surveys(16), Innovation(15), Libraries(15), Mass media(15), Social sciences computing(15), YouTube(15), New media(14), Privacy(14), Public relations(14), University(14), Computer aided instruction(13), Content analysis(13), Microblogging(13), Motivation(13), Public diplomacy(13), Student(13), Universities(13), Egypt(12), Informal learning(12), Online learning(12), Social movements(12), Young Adult(12), Blog(11), Canada(11), Data mining(11), Democracy(11), GIS(11), Media role(11), Nursing education(11), Participation(11), Personal learning environment(11), Social learning(11), Social software(11), Virtual reality(11), Web services(11)
Topics 2013 (keywords used more than ten times)
Social media(512) , Web 2.0(171), Internet(134), Facebook(99), Twitter(96), Social networking (online)(76), Communication(50), Social Media(50), Social network(49), Human(47), World Wide Web(47), Humans(43), Article(36), Students(35), Social networking(34), Social networks(34), Teaching(33), E-learning(28), Information technology(27); Higher education(26), Politics(26), Education(24), Marketing(24), Research(24), Technology(24), Mass media(23), Methodology(23), Male(22), Public relations(22), Privacy(21), Female(20), Media role(20), Social networking sites(20), Computer aided instruction(19), Academic libraries(18), Engineering education(18), Knowledge management(18), United States(18), YouTube(18), Blog(17), Media(17), Blogs(16), Collaboration(16), Industry(16), Libraries(16), Social software(16); Websites(16), Wiki(16), Adult(15), Arab Spring(15), Commerce(15), Learning(15), New media(15), Activism(14), Collaborative learning(13), Ethics(13), GIS(13), Gender(13), Journalism(13), Participation(13), Youth(13), Blogging(12), Content Analysis(12), Data mining(12), Interactivity(12), Library 2.0(12), Psychological aspect(12), Social Networks(12), Surveys(12), China(11), Information systems(11), Political participation(11), Tools(11), Web services(11)
pointless babble?
TOPICS
Hot Topic: Elections
Spotlight 2013: twitter and election
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Twitter and elections (Scopus and Web of Science)
Year of election
Name of election Country/region No. of papers (2013)
Date of election
2008 40th Canadian General Election Canada 1 14.10.2008
2009 European Parliament election, 2009 Europe 1 07.06.2009
2009 German federal election, 2009 Germany 2 27.09.2009
2010 2010 UK general election United Kingdom 4 06.05.2010
2010 South Korean local elections, 2010 South Korea 1 02.06.2010
2010 Dutch general election, 2010 Netherlands 2 09.06.2010
2010 Australian federal election, 2010 Australia 1 21.08.2010
2010 Swedish general election, 2010 Sweden 1 19.09.2010
2010 Midterm elections / United States House of Representatives elections, 2010 USA 4 02.11.2010
2010 Gubernational elections: Georgia USA 1 02.11.2010
2010 Gubernational elections: Ohio USA 1 02.11.2010
2010 Gubernational elections: Rhode Island USA 1 02.11.2010
2010 Gubernational elections: Vermont USA 1 02.11.2010
2010 2010 superintendent elections South Korea 1 17.12.2010
2011 Baden-Württemberg state election, 2011 Germany 1 27.03.2011
2011 Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 2011 Germany 1 27.03.2011
2011 Scottish parliament election 2011 Scotland 1 05.05.2011
2011 Singapore’s 16th parliamentary General Election Singapore 1 07.05.2011
2011 Norwegian local elections, 2011 Norway 2 12.09.2011
2011 2011 Danish parliamentary election Denmark 2 15.09.2011
20 li l i 20 G 2 8 09 20
2011 Scottish parliament election 2011 Scotland 1 05.05.2011
2011 Singapore’s 16th parliamentary General Election Singapore 1 07.05.2011
2011 Norwegian local elections, 2011 Norway 2 12.09.2011
2011 2011 Danish parliamentary election Denmark 2 15.09.2011
2011 Berlin state election, 2011 Germany 2 18.09.2011
2011 Gubernational elections: West Virginia USA 1 04.10.2011
2011 Gubernational elections: Louisiana USA 1 22.10.2011
2011 Swiss federal election, 2011 Switzerland 1 23.10.2011
2011 2011 Seoul mayoral elections South Korea 1 26.10.2011
2011 Gubernational eletions: Kentucky USA 1 08.11.2011
2011 Gubernational elections: Mississippi USA 1 08.11.2011
2011 Spanish national election 2011 Spain 1 20.11.2011
2012 Queensland State election Australia 1 24.03.2012
2012 South Korean legislative election, 2012 South Korea 1 11.04.2012
2012 French presidential election, 2012 France 2 22.04.2012
2012 Mexican general election, 2012 Mexico 1 01.07.2012
2012 United States presidential election, 2012 / United States House of Representatives elections, 2012
USA 17 06.11.2012
2012 South Korean presidential election, 2012 South Korea 2 19.12.2012
2013 Ecuadorian general election, 2013 Ecuador 1 17.02.2013
2013 Venezuelan presidential election, 2013 Venezuela 1 14.04.2013
2013 Paraguayan general election, 2013 Paraguay 1 21.04.2013
Spotlight 2013: twitter and election No. of Tweets No. Of publications (2013)
0-500 3 501-1.000 4
1.001-5.000 1 5.001-10.000 1
10.001-50.000 7 50.001-100.000 4
100.001-500.000 5 500.001-1.000.000. 3
1.000.001-5.000.000 3 mehr als 5.000.000 3
mehr als 100.000.000 1 mehr als 1.000.000.000 1 keine/ungenaue Angabe 13
Highly cited Sweden: • Larsson A.O., Moe H. (2012). Studying political microblogging: Twitter
users in the 2010 Swedish election campaign. New Media and Society, 14(5), 729-747.
• Jungherr A., Jurgens P., Schoen H. (2012). Why the pirate party won the german election of 2009 or the trouble with predictions: A response to tumasjan, A., sprenger, T. O., sander, P. G., & welpe, I. M. "predicting elections with twitter: What 140 characters reveal about political sentiment". Social Science Computer Review, 30(2), 229-234.
#egypt
#Egypt / Arab spring Role of Facebook during #egypt? • Tufekci Z., Wilson C. (2012). Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political
Protest: observations From Tahrir Square. Journal of Communication, 62(2), 363-379.
Newspapers vs. Social media • Hamdy N., Gomaa E.H. (2012). Framing the Egyptian Uprising in Arabic Language
Newspapers and Social Media. Journal of Communication, 62(2), 195-211.
Activsm
#occupy: • Juris J.S. (2012). Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space,
and emerging logics of aggregation. American Ethnologist, 39(2), 259-279. Indonesia: • Lim M. (2013). Many Clicks but Little Sticks: Social Media Activism in Indonesia.
Journal of Contemporary Asia, 43(4), 636-657. Spain: • Gonzalez-Bailon S., Borge-Holthoefer J., Moreno Y. (2013). Broadcasters and
Hidden Influentials in Online Protest Diffusion. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(7), 943-965.
eGovernment Overview • Bertot J.C., Jaeger P.T., Hansen D. (2012). The impact of polices on government social media
usage: Issues, challenges, and recommendations. Government Information Quarterly, 29(1), 30-40.
Citizen sourcing • Nam T. (2012). Suggesting frameworks of citizen-sourcing via Government 2.0. Government
Information Quarterly, 29(1), 12-20. EU • Bonson E., Torres L., Royo S., Flores F. (2012). Local e-government 2.0: Social media and
corporate transparency in municipalities. Government Information Quarterly, 29(2). 123-132. Mexico • Picazo-Vela S., Gutierrez-Martinez I., Luna-Reyes L.F. (2012). Understanding risks, benefits,
and strategic alternatives of social media applications in the public sector. Government Information Quarterly, 29(4), 504-511.
Social media use by government officials: • Kavanaugh A.L., Fox E.A., Sheetz S.D., Yang S., Li L.T., Shoemaker D.J., Natsev A., Xie L. (2012).
Social media use by government: From the routine to the critical. Government Information Quarterly, 29(4), 480-491.
Ethics / privacy
Ethics / privacy Research ethics: • Rooke B. (2013). Four Pillars of Internet Research Ethics with Web 2.0 Journal of
Academic Ethics, 11(4), 265-268. • Boyd D., Crawford K. (2012). Critical questions for big data: Provocations for a
cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon. Information Communication and Society, 15(5), 662-679.
Geo data
Geo-Information Overview on new geo-data: • Elwood S., Goodchild M.F., Sui D.Z. (2012). Researching Volunteered
Geographic Information: Spatial Data, Geographic Research, and New Social Practice. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(3), 571-590.
Geo-spacial politics: • Leszczynski A. (2012). Situating the geoweb in political economy. Progress in
Human Geography, 36(1), 72-89. Twitter • Leetaru K., Wang S., Cao G., Padmanabhan A., Shook E. (2013). Mapping the
global Twitter heartbeat: The geography of Twitter. First Monday, 18(5).
Trends?
Forecasting Health care Big data
Continuing
Learning / education marketing
target audience / user studies Journalism / mass media
Disappearing?
crisis communication metadata
Which platforms?
Facebook in case studies Egypt Students (impression management) Education Health (alcohol, tobacco, depression) Protests Sociality, connectivity Cultural differences Dating, intimacy, emotional disclosure Customers Games African American users Gender Language use Music industry
Twitter in case studies Elections (prediction) Public debate Activism Non-profit organizations Journalists Agenda setting Government E-learning, classroom, academic libraries Individual pesonality Literacy Geo-corpora
YouTube in case studies Government Education Medical education Promotion, marketing (Tobacco marketing) Libraries Arab spring Fan culture Media economy Politics Online protests Tourism
Blogs in case studies eGovernment Politics, Protests Education (language education) Music industry Customers/ marketing Travel, tourism Journalism Writers and audiences Discursive analysis Adolescent bloggers Blogshops, art & design, creativity Libraries Blogs and podcasts Health and daily life
Wikipedia in case studies
Education Speech acts (language analysis) Collaboration Libraries
Which platforms?
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METHODS & TOOLS
Methods
Content analysis Survey (interview) (experiment)
Methods: interdisciplinary
TOOLS
• Data Collection • Data Analysis
API: Application Programming Interface
GNIP
TOPSY
YourTwapperkeeper
NodeXL Network Analysis Based on Excel Can collect data from (amongst others): • Facebook • Twitter • YouTube • Flickr • Wikipedia • If you can get data into excel, you can get it into NodeXL…
NodeXL
NodeXL
NodeXL • NodeXLGraphGallery.org
Gephi
Content Analysis
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CAQDAS Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data AnalysiS – (e.g. MAXQDA, QDAMiner, ATLAS.ti, Qualrus, Nvivo) – Speech Act Analyse – Statistics
Digital Methods Initiative • https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ToolDatabase
Sentiment Analysis
Dictionaries: • ANEW
Trends? • Images • URLs • Webometrics, e.g. Webometric Analyst
http://lexiurl.wlv.ac.uk/ • Multi-platform studies
Getting up to date?
If you want to read 5 papers • Boyd D., Crawford K. (2012). Critical questions for big data: Provocations for a cultural,
technological, and scholarly phenomenon. Information Communication and Society, 15(5), 662-679.
• Jungherr A., Jurgens P., Schoen H. (2012). Why the pirate party won the german election of 2009 or the trouble with predictions: A response to tumasjan, A., sprenger, T. O., sander, P. G., & welpe, I. M. "predicting elections with twitter: What 140 characters reveal about political sentiment". Social Science Computer Review, 30(2), 229-234.
• Leetaru K., Wang S., Cao G., Padmanabhan A., Shook E. (2013). Mapping the global Twitter heartbeat: The geography of Twitter. First Monday, 18(5).
• Tufekci Z., Wilson C. (2012). Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: observations From Tahrir Square. Journal of Communication, 62(2), 363-379.
• Bertot J.C., Jaeger P.T., Hansen D. (2012). The impact of polices on government social media usage: Issues, challenges, and recommendations. Government Information Quarterly, 29(1), 30-4.
Questions?