This is a presentation I gave to the Canadian Communication Association's annual meeting during the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences #congress10.

1. All the news that’s fit to Tweet Using Twitter to conduct a discourse analysis of experts discussing the future of newspaper Caitlin Kealey — caitlinkealey@gmail.com

3. Methodology

4. Research Questions

5. Social media and Twitter

6. Community Building

7. New Opportunities

9. State of news

11. Internet has replaced the newspaper as faster, cheaper and more broad delivery system

12. Readership numbers actually higher but the traditional economic model does not work online, scrambling to find a way to monetize the new systems

15. What are the people involved trying to accomplish?

16. How do they do this?

17. What are the key issues for these people?

19. Two months of data collection – February and March 2010

20. Top twenty experts on Twitter chosen with the help of Klout and TweetLevel

21. NVIVO to analyze the data

22. Grounded theory method

25. Often used to link to blogs, articles, other sites of interest

26. Space to ask questions, share, collaborate, network

27. Powerful research tool as discussions are public and archived

28. Twitter users apply a # to signify a stream of discussion

30. Thank You! Questions? Feedback? MA Candidate, Department of Communication University of Ottawa Twitter ID: @caitlinkealey Email: caitlinkealey@gmail.com Research blog: www.caitlinkealey.com