Twitter, the Agora, and Futurism Week5 Participation Literacy

Participation Literacy Week#5 Twitter, the Agora, and Futurism last update: April 6, 2009 Trebor Scholz | @trebors

week 2 Conversation: Overview, Getting Started Democracy and Blogging week 1 Conversation: week 3 Privacy and Social Networking Attention Overload: Search, Filter, Content Aggregation week 4 week 5 Twitter and the 100th Anniversary of the Futurist Manifesto week 6 Collaboration: week 7 Spring Break Wikis, Wikipedia, Mashups Collaboration: Collaborative Writing week 8 Collaboration: week 9 Social Mapping Sharing Cooperation: Media Sharing week 10 Sharing week 11 Referral, Tagging, Folksonomies Sharing Piracy and File Sharing week 12 week 13 Sharing week 14 Copyright and Virtual Worlds Social Bookmarking Social Music Sites week 15 Social Cataloging Sites Trebor Scholz | The New School University | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

Collective Action: Flash Mobs, Activism, and Twitter week 5 Feb 24, 26 Required Reading: Huberman, Bernardo, Daniel Romero, and Fang Wu. quot;Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope.quot; First Monday (2009). 1 Jan. 2009. 3 Jan. 2009 <http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2317/2063>. Case Study: Twitter Requirements Twitter assignment (due Feb 26 before class) 10% Trebor Scholz | The New School University | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYP-wBaqQAI

Index slide# 5 Twitter and 100th Anniversary of the Manifesto of Futurism slide# 6 Why Does Micro-Blogging Matter? slide# 8 How Twitter Came To Be slide# 12 Twitter Anatomy slide# 18 Twitter Desktop Clients slide# 22 How Do People Use Twitter? slide# 30 Twitter in the Organization/in Education slide# 41 Twitter as a Citizen News-Wire? slide# 48 Twitter, War, Catastrophe slide# 52 Search slide# 56 Reading slide# 59 Twitter Assignment slide# 61 Trebor Scholz | The New School University | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

Micro-Blogging and the 100th Anniversary of the Manifesto of Futurism

The Manifesto of Futurism Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1909) •youth, technology, speed Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/%27Unique_Forms_of_Continuity_in_Space%27%2C_1913_bronze_by_Umberto_Boccioni.jpg

Why Does Micro-Blogging Matter?

What they say about Twitter howardowens: quot;Twitter is a salon in 140 characters.quot; uchicagolaw: Twitter allows us to give prospective students a bite-sized glimpse into what life here is like. memoirgirl: quot;Now I'm not just funny to myself.quot; calixte: quot;I use my Cognitive Surplus to do some Mindcasting, using the ultimate Blip Machine: Twitter.quot; dangillmor: quot;Twitter is a current (and sometimes early) warning and gossip system, with occasional insight and frequent amusement.quot; tiffanyvonemmel: quot;Twitter is how I meet with busy people. It replaces email. At academic conferences, I use Twitter to demonstrate the performative turn of knowledge.quot; DW: quot;Twitter is my shared notepad. If I want to remember something and I don't mind if everyone else knows it, I just post it here.quot; HarryWaisbren: quot;I ﬁnd twitter useful to engage journalists, bloggers, and academics casually whereas within other mediums they would resist.quot; ryansholin: quot;Twitter is a connection engine that costs nothing. No bar tab, no conference registration, no commitment. Just 140 characters.quot; selected from: http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2009/01/04/chronicle_hlp.html#comment52073

Why Does Micro-Blogging Matter? (A Preliminary List) • Inconspicuous way of staying in touch with the passions and obsessions of your friends, colleagues, and experts. What are they paying attention to right now (short messages and also photos)? • Update people on what you are writing on your blog • Social capital, “The Strength of Weak Ties” (Granovetter, 1973) • Live search: abbreviated live-blogging of a group. Twitter as live-version of social bookmarking services like Delicious-- ask questions • Art (i.e, Jenny Holzer, Joseph Kosuth) • Twitter as news-wire and citizen journalism. • Citizen volunteerism and fundraising: (i.e., Twestival) Trebor Scholz | The New School University | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

Why Does Micro-Blogging Matter? (A Preliminary List) • File sharing (with the help of services like http://www.acamin.com/ you can share ﬁles up to 15 MB) • Event live micro-blogging, 140 characters at a time (i.e., group of people covering simultaneous sessions at a conference) • Informal social learning (acculturating into communities of practice, evidence of learning process, shareable teaching, reach beyond classroom, access to information becomes access to people who know, self-organized communities). Examples: surgery • Post-disaster relief (i.e, Mumbai bombings, Gustav) • Increase intra-organizational linkages, connection to larger community and transparency (i.e., universities, U.S. State Department) Trebor Scholz | The New School University | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

How Twitter Came To Be

Attention and Media Trebor Scholz | The New School University | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

Making a More “Live” LiveJournal May 31st, 2000 “One night in July of that year I had an idea to make a more quot;livequot; LiveJournal. Real-time, up-to-date, from the road. Akin to updating your AIM status from wherever you are, and sharing it. For the next 5 years, I thought about this concept and tried to silently introduce it into my various projects. The 6th year; the idea has finally solidified .... and taken a novel form. We're calling it twttr (though this original rendering calls it stat.us; I love the word.ed domains, e.g. gu.st). “ jack dorsey http://flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182613360/ Trebor Scholz | The New School University | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

First Tweet http://ﬂickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182614595/in/photostream/ Trebor Scholz | The New School University | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

Twitter as part of a literate tradition of concision For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn. -Ernest Hemingway 5th or 6th century: koans ﬁrst appeared in China 17th century: Shakespeare was praising short and snappy punch lines in Hamlet haiku master Japanese poet Matsuo Basho In a telegram exchange attributed to both Oscar Wilde and Victor Hugo, the curious writer inquires about sales of his recent book by sending his publisher a lone: ? The response, of course, was: ! Orwell: quot;if it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it outquot; Noam Chomsky quot;The beauty of concision, is that you can only repeat conventional thoughts.quot; Jenny Holzer: quot;Abuse of power comes as no surprisequot; http://www.amazon.com/Six-Word-Memoirs-Love-Heartbreak-Writers/dp/0061714623

Words, Words, Words twitterific dweet (tweet sent while drunk) twead (reading a twitter post) tweeple tweeps (peeps on Twitter) tweetaholism tweetheart not to be mistaken with tweetard tweetUp (Twitter users meet in person) twibute (to pay tribute to someone) twirting (flirting on Twitter) twitch (when you twitter a typo) “How to win friends and twinfluence people?”

Twitter Anatomy

Twitter in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

The Anatomy of Twitter Retweet RT (Your clever words passed on by dozens of people) D Direct Messages (not public, used by 25% of users) URL shortening (for link sharing) # “Tweets” (can’t edit, 140 characters) Replies @ (public) “followers” Trends “following” (start with 15-20) TwitPic Trebor Scholz | The New School University | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

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Twitter Desktop Clients

http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

For useful responses to frequently asked questions about Tweetdeck also see: http://www.richardbarley.com/2009/02/22/all-your-tweetdeck-questions-answered/

http://friendfeed.com/

“Shareaholic” Firefox add-on let’s you post to many sites right from Firefox http://www.shareaholic.com/

Tweetie for iPhone -- multiple Twitter accounts http://www.atebits.com/software/tweetie/

-Buzz Group Break- What question would you most like to have answered regarding the topic of the lecture today? Of all ideas and points you have heard so far today, which is the most obscure or ambiguous to you? What is the most contentious statement you heard in the lecture so far?

Questions Is writing status updates a waste of time? What are the disadvantages and opportunities of engaging in online conversations and sharing practices (video, photos)? What are some reasons for the recent success of Twitter? Are novels passé? Do even email, videos on Lonelygirl15 and Instant Messaging take up too much time now? Which way of using Twitter worked best for you? How can micro-blogging help you to distribute your ideas? What is the difference between “friendship” on Twitter and Facebook? Trebor Scholz | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

How Do People Use Twitter?

US Diplomats Start Twittering, ... “For security reasons, the congressional delegation led by House Minority Leader John Boehner to Iraq today was supposed to be secret. Everything had been going ﬁne in that regard. Even media outlets that knew of the trip, like the Congressional Quarterly, kept a lid on the news. That was, until Rep. Peter Hoekstra twittered his arrival into Baghdad. quot;Just landed in Baghdad. I believe it may be ﬁrst time I've had bb service in Iraq. 11th trip here,quot; he sent from his BlackBerry. “ http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10159054-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

http://tweetcongress.org/

http://twitter.com/CSIState

Erykah Badu twitters her child birth quot;This f*cking hurts like hell!quot; quot;I'm gonna kill this doctor if he does't get this thing out of me.quot; quot;Why isn't Andre 3000 here yet?quot;

http://twestival.com/ “Do this TODAY: 1. Read 5 Ways to Help Twestival Raise $1 Million, then go to http://4charitymate.com and give what you can 2. Attend your local Twestival event. (check http://Twestival.com) Have fun and donate again 3. Tweet to let your followers know it’s Twestival day 4. Post a blog, Facebook Note, MySpace Bulletin or whatever you can 5. Mail to your mailing list.. tell them all how important Twesitval is to the world 6. Leave a comment here so we can share your blog post with others”

http://www.botanicalls.com/kits/

Twittering Surgery http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/health/2009/02/16/cohen.twittering.in.the.or.cnn

http://twitter.com/guydebord http://twitter.com/jennyholzer

http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzSgtG29is Daniel Schorr (91) starts to twitter. Twitter reminds him of the Agora, which was an open quot;place of assembly,quot; a market place in ancient Greece (900s–700s BCE).

Twitter in the Organization Engage or Die!

Twitter in the Organization •Learn what people say about you and join that conversation •Find experts in your ﬁeld on Twellow.com or Twitter Search •What do they think about your organization? •Twitter as possibility for creating intellectual community. •Organizational: quick way to point to problems. •Of course, it only works if people make an effort to use it. Trebor Scholz | The New School University | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

http://twuffer.com/home Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets, and schedule their release. You can tweet hourly/daily/monthly announcements.

http://www.tweetlater.com/

Twitter in Education • Chat with your professor or other students after class • Collaborate on a project. Start a conversation thread. • In-class back channel •Follow the tweets of professionals • Share your teaching resources beyond the class room Trebor Scholz | The New School University | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

http://www.tweetworks.com/

twtpoll could become a useful research tool for informal surveys: http://twtpoll.com/

Twitter as Citizen News-Wire?

A Few Places to Start Breaking News Alerts Wired @BreakingNewsOn @wired Associated Press New York Times @associatedpress @nytimes Brian Lehrer WNYC Washington Post @BrianLehrer @washingtonpost A Few People Nicholas Kristof (NYT) @nytimeskristof Howard Rheingold @hrheingold Danica Radovanovic @DanicaR

US Airways Flight 1549, January 15 2009 “There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy,” J Krums in a 3:50 p.m. Faster than Associate Press (AP) (i.e., BBC follows Twitter to stay on top of events) - PRO: In several instances Twitter received updates faster than TV or news websites: new outlet for citizen journalism - CON: Unreliable sources TwitPic.com The event was also caught on video; the footage was uploaded to Youtube. In addition, hundreds of photos were added to Flickr.

Sports Reporting David Weinberger twitters the Superbowl (@dweinberger) also search for #TwitterBowl http://search.twitter.com/search?q=dweinberger+superbowl

Twitter, War, and Catastrophe

Twitter as tool for war reporting http://labs.aljazeera.net/warongaza/main

Insta-Reporting the Mumbai Bombings December 2, 2008 “‘Grenade attack in Colaba market,’ read a Twitter message from a user named Abhishek Baxi last Wednesday. Then a few minutes later. ‘Blast outside Oberoi Hotel in South Mumbai.’ A few years ago, sane people would have still argued that the whole point of taking your time with reporting a story is so that you have a chance to synthesize facts, evaluate your sources, double-check and get your story straight.” - David Sarno http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/12/mumbai-news-ﬁs.html

http://gustavtracker.appspot.com/

Search From access to information to access to knowledgeable people

tweetgrid.com

http://search.twitter.com/

Reading

Required Reading: Huberman, Bernardo, Daniel Romero, and Fang Wu. quot;Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope.quot; First Monday (2009). 1 Jan. 2009. 3 Jan. 2009 <http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2317/2063>. Friendship and Twitter Enter messages: followers may see it- to “follow” means to subscribe to people’s mini-blog posts Only few “followers” and “followees” are in fact actual friends. Twitter is unlike Facebook: You can follow somebody but they don’t have to follow you.

Twitter Assignment

Twitter Assignment Due date February 26 (before class): - Create a Twitter account. 1) Write a 140 characters explanation of Twitter and post it to Twitter. 2) Write a ﬁctitious (or real) love letter in no more than 140 characters. 3) Write a real (or ﬁctitious) breakup Twitter post. 4) How can Twitter be used in class? Suggest how we could make use of Twitter in class. Post your idea to Twitter. 5) Comment on a current political event, add a link. - Twitter at least sporadically until the end of the semester. Trebor Scholz | The New School University | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

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“The oldest among us are not yet thirty years old: we have therefore at least ten years to accomplish our task. When we are forty let younger and stronger men than we throw us in the waste paper basket like useless manuscripts! They will come against us from afar, leaping on the light cadence of their first poems, clutching the air with their predatory fingers and sniffing at the gates of the academies the good scent of our decaying spirits, already promised to the catacombs of the libraries.” [...] Look at us! We are not out of breath, our hearts are not in the least tired. For they are nourished by fire, hatred and speed! Does this surprise you? it is because you do not even remember being alive! Standing on the world's summit, we launch once more our challenge to the stars!” -MANIFESTO OF FUTURISM

State of the Union: 2/24, 2009 http://search.twitter.com/

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