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Beyond the stars:Interpreting discoursecohesion in Twitter as anindicator of communityCornelius Puschmann, University of Düsseldorf /Institute for Internet and SocietyDIATA 11 Workshop15. September 2011, Düsseldorf

This talk: an idea, a suggestion, bits of data#1How are conversations conducted on Twitter andwhat issues emerge with establishing coherence? #2 How and why is @-messaging used among members of a speciﬁc community? #3 How can conversations (rather than friends/ followers) be used to measure social cohesion?

User timeline single timeline

„all friends“ view aggregation of the timelines of other users

Time and the „all friends“ viewLovely weather this morning!

Time and the „all friends“ viewLovely weather this morning! @cornelius Same over here!

Time and the „all friends“ viewLovely weather this morning! @adeline nice! how have you been lately? @cornelius Same over here!

Time and the „all friends“ viewLovely weather this morning! @adeline nice! how have you been lately? @cornelius Same over here! Okay, this is interesting: http://something.com

Time and the „all friends“ viewLovely weather this morning! @adeline nice! how have you been lately? @cornelius Same over here! Okay, this is interesting: http://something.com RT @parker Okay, this is interesting: http://something.com

Time and the „all friends“ viewLovely weather this morning! @adeline nice! how have you been lately? @cornelius Same over here! Okay, this is interesting: http://something.com RT @parker Okay, this is interesting: http://something.com Breaking news about something: http://something.com (via @zeigor, @parker)

Time and the „all friends“ view Point in time #1 Point in time #2Lovely weather this morning! @adeline nice! how have you been lately? @cornelius Same over here! Okay, this is interesting: http://something.com RT @parker Okay, this is interesting: http://something.com Breaking news about something: http://something.com (via @zeigor, @parker)

Time and the „all friends“ view Point in time #1 Point in time #2Lovely weather this morning! @adeline nice! how have you been lately? conversation @cornelius Same over here! Okay, this is interesting: http://something.com RT @parker Okay, this is interesting: http://something.com Breaking news about something: http://something.com (via @zeigor, @parker)

Time and the „all friends“ view Point in time #1 Point in time #2 Lovely weather this morning! @adeline nice! how have you been lately? conversation @cornelius Same over here! Okay, this is interesting: http://something.com RT @parker Okay, this is interesting: http://something.com Breaking news about something: http://something.com (via @zeigor, @parker)Twitter doesn‘t lend itself well to conversation.

Premise Twitter conversationindividual tweet

Premise Twitter conversation individual tweetThesis:Examining longer stretches of discourse rather than individualtweets is methodologically superior in some research contexts.

Celebrities vs. casual Twitter usersIn [Twitter‘s] follower-following topology analysis we have found anon-power-law follower distribution, a short effective diameter, andlow reciprocity, which all mark a deviation from knowncharacteristics of human social networks. - Kwak, Lee, Park & Moon, 2010

Celebrities vs. casual Twitter users[C]elebrity practice reinforces unequal power differentials. WhileTwitter users who do not use the site instrumentally may think of theirfollowers as friends or family, celebrity practice necessitates viewingfollowers as fans. - Marwick and boyd, 2011

Celebrities vs. casual Twitter userscelebrities (RL and SoMe) casual users many followers fewer followers # friends < # followers # friends = # followers small % of followers are larger % of followers are conversation partners conversation partnerspeople who communicate people who don‘tprofessionally (e.g. artists) communicate professionallybroadcasting, performance conversation

The data1 I conducted a pilot study of 10 “casual“ German and Austrian Twitter users in Spring 2011. 2 Central issues of the study were privacy and self-disclosure. My approach combined email 3 interviews with diachronic content analysis. 4 I followed this up with a study of 25 video game enthusiasts on Twitter.

Types of tweets in the pilot study 33% n = 4052 54% 12% 2%@-messages Retweets Tweets containing URLs other Tweets

Approach of the gamer study• studied a community of German-speaking gamers• tracked 24 users for a period of 6 weeks• collected ~50k tweets• 38k of these were @-messages• recruited subjects through an informer

Time S Text14:15:40 Gary Diese User-Review zu From Dust auf Metacritic hat mich restlos überzeugt! http://...14:16:51 Bob @Gary Habe Metacritic all die Jahre unterschätzt :P @Gary @Steve Wollt ihr auf dem Pressetag der GC jetzt eigentlich irgendwas14:18:30 Chris kreatives machen? @Steve @Gary Könnte mir vielleicht ne kleine HD-Cam ausleihen, aber keine Ahnung14:19:56 Chris wieviel Speicher die hat und ob gute Qualität @Bob Ich bin einfach vom Stil des Schreibers überrascht. Wer so "sophisticated"14:24:57 Gary schreiben kann, muss Ahnung haben! @Chris Ähhh... der @Steve klärt das schon ab. Ich fänds cool, aber ich bin Mittwoch14:25:50 Gary schon ziemlich ausgelastet.14:26:47 Chris @Gary wieso was musst du denn machen? @Chris Termine, mein Freund! Alles voller Termine. Ich muss auch vor den Anderen14:27:20 Gary mein Mittagessen zu mir nehmen ;)14:27:26 Bob @Gary True Art is Incomprehensible! True Art is Offensive! ^^

Friends/Followers for user Gary

Conversation network for user Gary

Observations Usage of Twitter differs so signiﬁcantly from one user group1 to another that the claim of it being a channel for broadcasting can be contested. Users conduct surprisingly long and structured 2 conversations with recurring communicative partners. A surprisingly large number of these 3 partners are neither friends or followers of the users.

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