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#mla15 #s398 Butterfly Hunt: On Collecting #mla14 Tweets
Dr Ernesto Priego Centre for Information Science @ernestopriego #citylis [email protected]
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Quickly…
• 1. Twitter data collection- “butterfly hunt”, citizen archiving
• 2. How we collected and what we collected
• 3. #mla14 Twitter data summary • 4. #mla15 so far • 5. Why Twitter data collection matters
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Male Monarch bu4erfly CC-‐BY SA Captain-‐tucker Wikimedia Commons
Conference Tweets Collection as Butterfly Hunt
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“They would flu4er toward a blossom, hover over it. My bu4erfly net upraised, I stood waiKng only for the spell that the flowers seemed to cast on the pair of wings to have finished its work, when all of a sudden the delicate body would glide off sideways with a gentle buffeKng of the air, to cast its shadow – moKonless as before – over another flower, which just as suddenly it would leave without touching. ” (51)
Walter Benjamin at the Bibliothèque NaKonale de Paris, April 1937, photo by Gisèle Freud
Conference Tweet Collection as Citizen Archiving
• Citizen archivists are “the first responders of history… arriving early on the scene to gather, capture, describe and preserve ephemeral artifacts of interest and helping to ensure they survive over time to share with the future.”
• “Almost any collection becomes interesting once you get enough stuff in one place.”
-Butch Lazorchak, The Signal. Digital Preservation. Library of Congress, May 8, 2013 http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/05/ian-mackaye-and-citizen-archiving/
Screenshot from the Fugazi Live Series of a Notorious Dallas Concert in 1990.
Data Collection; Data Sharing
• TAGS – Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet by Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey)
• Not as easy as just letting it run automatically– devil is in the details • Issues: API Limits, Spreadsheet Settings and Limits, Different Time
Zones, Spam, Character Encoding, Languages, Duplication, Bots, Automated Tweets
• Automated methods and manual methods are required • Online collaboration – Chris Zarate and I, across time zones,
countries, institutions • Shared on open access repositories: • http://bit.ly/MLA14TwitterArchive (see also
http://cdrs.columbia.edu/cdrsmain/2014/02/mla14-twitter-archive-added-to-academic-commons/ )
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#MLA14 Tweet Activity on Conference Days (9-12 January 2014)
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#MLA14 Conference Days Summary
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#MLA14 Conference Days Participation
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#MLA14 Most Frequent Word*:
digital: 1,474 occurrences (humanities: 1,152)
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* In 9-‐12 January 2014 dataset, obtained with Words in the EnKre Corpus, Voyant Tools
Top Ten #MLA14 user_lang*
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*From 19 different user_lang opKons in dataset
#MLA14 Tweets and Geolocation
• Only 2% of Tweets had geolocaKon enabled
• Of 484 Tweets with coordinates in dataset 464 were unique locaKons; most from Chicago metro area
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Why Does It Matter?
• Historical record of scholarly social media participation and an increasingly-important manifestation of the MLA Convention activity
• Twitter is experienced “live”, as it happens, but Web and Mobile clients do not yet allow long-term archiving of hashtag acttivity or easier manipulation
• Tweets as ephemera; preservation for future analysis needed • Twitter may or may not last; it may change significantly; Twitter API
rules and behaviour change very often and without warning • Archiving and analyising Twitter evidence (data) may offer insights
into scholarly behaviour, disciplinary, thematic, linguistic and socio-cultural trends over time, conference sentiment/feedback, for scholarly social networks mapping, etc.
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Thank You!
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References • Priego, Ernesto, and Zarate, Chris. “#MLA14 Twitter Archive, 9-12 January 2014”. Dataset. City
Research Online. 2014. Web. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/3083/ Accessed 7 January 2015. • Priego, Ernesto. #MLA14: A First Look (I). Far Away, Yet Close. MLA Commons. 16 January 2014.
Web.http://remoteparticipation.commons.mla.org/2014/01/16/mla14-a-first-look/ Accessed 7 January 2015 (four parts).
• Priego, Ernesto. “Some Thoughts on Why You Would Like to Archive and Share [Small] Twitter Data Sets”. 28 May 2014. Web. https://epriego.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/some-thoughts-why-you-would-like-to-archive-and-share-twitter-small-data/ Accessed 7 January 2015.
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