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Tracking Social Media Participation:
New Approaches to Studying
User-Generated Content
Dr Axel Bruns
Associate Professor
ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation
Queensland University of Technology
a.bruns@qut.edu.au – @snurb_dot_info
http://snurb.info/ – http://mappingonlinepublics.net/
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Researching Social Media
• Social Media:
Websites which build on Web 2.0 technologies to provide space for in-depth
social interaction, community formation, and the tackling of collaborative
projects.
Axel Bruns and Mark Bahnisch. "Social Drivers behind Growing Consumer Participation in User-
Led Content Generation: Volume 1 - State of the Art." Sydney: Smart Services CRC, 2009.
Researching Social Media
• Various existing research approaches:
• Qualitative:
• Processes and practices How? What?
• Content generated by users What?
• Sites and organisational structures How? In what context?
• Quantitative:
• User surveys (demographics, practices, motivations) Who? Why?
• Content coding (usually small-scale) What?
• Mostly small-scale – limited applicability?
Known (Un)knowns
• What we know:
• Behaviour of small social media communities
• Practices of lead users
• Structural frameworks for selected sites / site genres
• Broad demographics of social media users
• Some things we want to know:
• How does all of this work at scale?
• What about ‘average’ users?
• How do communities overlap / interact?
• Can we track developments over time?
(Kelly & Etling, 2009)
Mining and Mapping
• New research materials:
• Massive amounts of data and metadata generated by social media
• Mostly freely available online (Web / RSS / API access)
• Often in clear, standardised formats
• New research tools:
• Network crawlers (e.g. IssueCrawler)
• Website scrapers / capture tools (e.g. Twapperkeeper)
• Network analysers / visualisers (e.g. Gephi, Pajek)
• Large-scale text analysers (e.g. WordStat, Leximancer)
Asking Sophisticated Questions
• What timeframe?
• Crawler approach: anything posted in the last 20 years
• Resulting in one static map – but what’s happening now?
• What map?
• Other ways to categorise these sites?
• Differences in activity, consistency
• Known unknowns – dynamics in the Iranian blogosphere:
• Sites appearing / disappearing?
• Increased / decreased activity?
• New linkage patterns:
• Stronger / weaker clustering?
• Move from one cluster to another?
• Change in topics, shift in emphasis, spread of information?
Asking Sophisticated Questions
• Problems with current research approaches:
• Crawlers don’t distinguish site genres or link types
• Scrapers gather all text (including headers, footers, comments, …)
• Very few attempts to trace the dynamics of participation
• Many different ways to visualise these data
• Assumptions often built into the software, and difficult to change
• Alternative approaches:
• Gather large population of RSS feeds (and keep growing it)
• Track for new posts, and scrape posts only (retain timestamp)
• Extract links and keywords for further analysis
• Develop ways of identifying and visualising change over time
• Needs to be appropriate to research questions
Applications: Twitter
• Questions:
• Who tweets, and what about?
• How do themes and topics
change over time?
• How do #hashtags emerge?
• What do users share – in
links and retweets?
• How do MSM stories influence
the discussion?
• How do follower networks and
#hashtag communities
intersect?
#ausvotes on Twitter (17 July-24 Aug. 2010)
#ausvotes: Mentions of the Party Leaders
#ausvotes: Keyword Co-Occurrence
#ausvotes: Key Election Themes
Applications: Blogosphere
• Questions:
• (How) does the ‘A-List’
change over time?
• (How) does political
alignment change over time?
• How strong is cross-
connection across clusters?
• What topics are discussed
– e.g. compared with MSM?
• What happens when power (Adamic & Glance, 2005)
changes hands – is blogging
an oppositional practice?
• Beyond left and right (beyond politics!): identification of
blog genres based on textual / linkage patterns
(qualitative follow-up necessary)
Applications: Australian Blogosphere (partial)
Applications: last.fm vs. Billboard
• Tracking listening patterns:
• Billboard = sales charts
• last.fm = listening activity
• Comparing sales and use
of new releases
• Identifying brief flashes and
slow burners
• Distinguishing casual listeners
and committed fan groups
• Providing market information
to the music industry
(Adjei & Holland-Cunz, 2008)
Application: Wikipedia Content Dynamics
• Tracking editing patterns:
• Identifying stable/unstable content
in Wikipedia
• Highlighting controversy, vandalism,
sneaky edits
• Tracking consensus development
• Tracking responses to developing
stories (http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/capitalism1.htm)
• Establishing trustworthiness based (http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/)
on extent of peer review
• Highlighting most hotly debated
(edited) sections of text
For More Ideas: VisualComplexity.com
_______ Science Emerges
• Web Science Research Initiative (Tim Berners-Lee et al.)
• Science, technology, computer engineering, …
• Limited inclusion of media, cultural, and communication studies
• Strong focus on Semantic Web, artificial ontologies
• Cultural Science + Cultural Science Journal (John Hartley et al.)
• Media & cultural studies, evolutionary economics, anthropology, …
• Limited inclusion of computer sciences, technology
• Strong focus on culture, innovation, evolutionary dynamics
• Data mining and visualisation
• Substantial commercial work on data mining
• Visualisation experiments in communication
design and visual arts
Looking Ahead
• Critical, interdisciplinary approaches
• Need to better connect cultural studies, computer science, research
technology developments
• Need to interrogate in-built assumptions of existing technologies
• Need to explore and investigate visualisation and analysis methods
• Need to develop cross-platform approaches and connect with more
conventional research
• Open questions
• Ethics of working with technically public, but notionally private data
• Potential (ab)use of data mining techniques and/or research results by
corporate and government interests
• What new knowledge can such research contribute?
http://mappingonlinepublics.net/

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Tracking Social Media Participation: New Approaches to Studying User-Generated Content

  • 1. Tracking Social Media Participation: New Approaches to Studying User-Generated Content Dr Axel Bruns Associate Professor ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology a.bruns@qut.edu.au – @snurb_dot_info http://snurb.info/ – http://mappingonlinepublics.net/ Image by campoalto
  • 2. Researching Social Media • Social Media: Websites which build on Web 2.0 technologies to provide space for in-depth social interaction, community formation, and the tackling of collaborative projects. Axel Bruns and Mark Bahnisch. "Social Drivers behind Growing Consumer Participation in User- Led Content Generation: Volume 1 - State of the Art." Sydney: Smart Services CRC, 2009.
  • 3. Researching Social Media • Various existing research approaches: • Qualitative: • Processes and practices How? What? • Content generated by users What? • Sites and organisational structures How? In what context? • Quantitative: • User surveys (demographics, practices, motivations) Who? Why? • Content coding (usually small-scale) What? • Mostly small-scale – limited applicability?
  • 4. Known (Un)knowns • What we know: • Behaviour of small social media communities • Practices of lead users • Structural frameworks for selected sites / site genres • Broad demographics of social media users • Some things we want to know: • How does all of this work at scale? • What about ‘average’ users? • How do communities overlap / interact? • Can we track developments over time?
  • 6. Mining and Mapping • New research materials: • Massive amounts of data and metadata generated by social media • Mostly freely available online (Web / RSS / API access) • Often in clear, standardised formats • New research tools: • Network crawlers (e.g. IssueCrawler) • Website scrapers / capture tools (e.g. Twapperkeeper) • Network analysers / visualisers (e.g. Gephi, Pajek) • Large-scale text analysers (e.g. WordStat, Leximancer)
  • 7. Asking Sophisticated Questions • What timeframe? • Crawler approach: anything posted in the last 20 years • Resulting in one static map – but what’s happening now? • What map? • Other ways to categorise these sites? • Differences in activity, consistency • Known unknowns – dynamics in the Iranian blogosphere: • Sites appearing / disappearing? • Increased / decreased activity? • New linkage patterns: • Stronger / weaker clustering? • Move from one cluster to another? • Change in topics, shift in emphasis, spread of information?
  • 8. Asking Sophisticated Questions • Problems with current research approaches: • Crawlers don’t distinguish site genres or link types • Scrapers gather all text (including headers, footers, comments, …) • Very few attempts to trace the dynamics of participation • Many different ways to visualise these data • Assumptions often built into the software, and difficult to change • Alternative approaches: • Gather large population of RSS feeds (and keep growing it) • Track for new posts, and scrape posts only (retain timestamp) • Extract links and keywords for further analysis • Develop ways of identifying and visualising change over time • Needs to be appropriate to research questions
  • 9. Applications: Twitter • Questions: • Who tweets, and what about? • How do themes and topics change over time? • How do #hashtags emerge? • What do users share – in links and retweets? • How do MSM stories influence the discussion? • How do follower networks and #hashtag communities intersect?
  • 10. #ausvotes on Twitter (17 July-24 Aug. 2010)
  • 11. #ausvotes: Mentions of the Party Leaders
  • 14. Applications: Blogosphere • Questions: • (How) does the ‘A-List’ change over time? • (How) does political alignment change over time? • How strong is cross- connection across clusters? • What topics are discussed – e.g. compared with MSM? • What happens when power (Adamic & Glance, 2005) changes hands – is blogging an oppositional practice? • Beyond left and right (beyond politics!): identification of blog genres based on textual / linkage patterns (qualitative follow-up necessary)
  • 16. Applications: last.fm vs. Billboard • Tracking listening patterns: • Billboard = sales charts • last.fm = listening activity • Comparing sales and use of new releases • Identifying brief flashes and slow burners • Distinguishing casual listeners and committed fan groups • Providing market information to the music industry (Adjei & Holland-Cunz, 2008)
  • 17. Application: Wikipedia Content Dynamics • Tracking editing patterns: • Identifying stable/unstable content in Wikipedia • Highlighting controversy, vandalism, sneaky edits • Tracking consensus development • Tracking responses to developing stories (http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/capitalism1.htm) • Establishing trustworthiness based (http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/) on extent of peer review • Highlighting most hotly debated (edited) sections of text
  • 18. For More Ideas: VisualComplexity.com
  • 19. _______ Science Emerges • Web Science Research Initiative (Tim Berners-Lee et al.) • Science, technology, computer engineering, … • Limited inclusion of media, cultural, and communication studies • Strong focus on Semantic Web, artificial ontologies • Cultural Science + Cultural Science Journal (John Hartley et al.) • Media & cultural studies, evolutionary economics, anthropology, … • Limited inclusion of computer sciences, technology • Strong focus on culture, innovation, evolutionary dynamics • Data mining and visualisation • Substantial commercial work on data mining • Visualisation experiments in communication design and visual arts
  • 20. Looking Ahead • Critical, interdisciplinary approaches • Need to better connect cultural studies, computer science, research technology developments • Need to interrogate in-built assumptions of existing technologies • Need to explore and investigate visualisation and analysis methods • Need to develop cross-platform approaches and connect with more conventional research • Open questions • Ethics of working with technically public, but notionally private data • Potential (ab)use of data mining techniques and/or research results by corporate and government interests • What new knowledge can such research contribute?