Acute Events in Social Media

ACUTE EVENTSIN SOCIAL MEDIAJEAN BURGESS | @jeanburgessQUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYKATE CRAWFORD | @katecrawfordUNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALESARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR CREATIVEINDUSTRIES & INNOVATION

acute events: JohanBerglund Common dynamics: sharp peaks, high volume and intensity Highly mediated, involving multiple actors/interests In twitter, often coordinated around particular #hashtags Produce controversies & ‘adjunctive conversations’

Event-driven research ‘peakiness’ and ‘burstiness’ Andreas Jungherr and Pascal Jürgens (2011) ‘A map drawn in sand: Twitter data and the structure of political campaigns’. Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis (DIATA11), Düsseldorf, Germany on 14-15Flickr: gabrielaP93 September 2011.

#ausvotes (2August. 2011)

#royalwedding (29 Apr. 2011)

Crises • Unplanned/unforeseen acute events • High stakes, multiple interests, adverse impacts • Disruptive/productive effects on systemsFlickr: Daveybot

#qldfloodsFlickr: Jono Haysom

#eqnzFlickr: NZ Defence Force

#spill

New epistemologies? Boyd, danah & Kate Crawford, ‘Six Provocations for Big Data’, A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, September 2011.

Time and accessibility

Need for mixed methodsFlickr: teachernz

Ethics of accessFlickr: Lightmash

New digital divides

Thank you… je.burgess@qut.edu.au k.crawford@unsw.edu.auFlickr: pierofix

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Acute Events in Social Media

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