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2. Method & Aim
✤ Data collected through Twapperkeeper.
✤ Election-related Twitter messages, collected under the
#ausvotes hashtag, during the period of 17 July 2010
(when Prime Minister Gillard officially called the election)
through to 24 August 2010 (three days after election day).
✤ To describe the key patterns of activity and thematic foci
of the election’s coverage in this particular social media
site.
3. Limitations of method
✤ “New-style” retweets :
Using “retweet button” rather than prefixing the original
tweet with “RT @[username]”. Unable to capture, thus,
not included in the analysis.
✤ Follow-on discussions between individual users :
Tweets to the #ausvotes community without using of
#ausvotes hashtag. Data not included.
4. Hashtags
✤ Hashtags consist of a simple keyword or abbreviation, prefixed
with the hash symbol “#”, which is inserted into Twitter
messages (tweets).
✤ Interested users can manually search for or automatically follow
all tweets that include a specific hashtag. There is no need to
register or gain permission to use specific hashtags; users may
simply include them manually as they write their tweets.
✤ Hashtag publics are unique, contrary to common practice in
social networking sites like Facebook. Participating users do not
need to have established prior personal connections by
“friending” or “following” one another.
5. Overall Analysis
✤ From17 July to 24 August 2010, 415,009 tweets from 36,287
unique Twitter usernames.
✤ A gradual ramping up of public interest towards the final
weeks of the campaign (see e.g. Shaw, 1999, p. 347).
✤ 8 August that #ausvotes activity first breaks through the
barrier of 10,000 tweets per day, and only 20 August sees
more than 20,000 tweets, 94,910 #ausvotes tweets on
election day.
6. Key election themes
• NationalBroadbandPolicy: mentions of “NBN” or “broadband”.
• InternetFilter: mentions of “filter”, “Cleanfeed”, or
“OpenInternet”.
• ClimateChange: mentions of “climatechange” or
“climatechange”.
• Asylum Seekers: mentions of “boat people”, “asylum”, or the
Coalition campaign slogan “Stop the Boats”.
• GayMarriage: mentions of “gaymarriage”.
7. Politics or Policies
✤ Limited discussion of the five major political topics (seven percent of
the total #ausvotes tweets) in the first phase of the election campaign.
Contributors focused more on discussions of the personalities and
performances of the two major political leaders, parties, and their
campaigning strategies, rather than on policy substance.
✤ Topical discussion doubling to 14 percent of the total volume in the
period between 10 August and election day, 31 percent on 10 August
and the following days.
The change indicates that certain policy matters did attract substantial
engagement.
8. Distribution of attention
#ausvotes community’s attention does not follow the thematic emphases set by
politicians or journalists. Twitter community applies a different set of criteria
for what it finds newsworthy than does the mainstream media.
✤Discussion about illegal immigration is apparent throughout the campaign, but
never manages to capture a major share of the discussion space, while issues
related to climate change are even less visible
✤During the second half of the campaign, the overall number of topical tweets
relating to the five themes increases substantially
9. Distribution of attention
✤ Discussion on 5 August 2010 is dominated by news of the conservative
Coalition’s announcement that it would not pursue Labor’s controversial
proposal to introduce a mandatory internet filter in Australia (Welch,
2010);
✤ 10 August sees a massive spike in the overall volume of thematic
discussion due to the level of debate about Labor’s plan to build a National
Broadband Network (NBN).
✤ Which shows,
attentions influenced by political events and media coverage, but does not
merely follow that coverage.
Themes are filtered through the community’s own established interests
and news frames, resulting in a distribution of attention that is different
from that of the mainstream media or of general public debate.
10. Interconnections with Mainstream
Media: URLs (Sharing and Commenting with the links to further online resources.)
✤ Lowest percentages of URLs in the total number of tweets were
recorded on 17 July (12 per cent), 25 July (8 per cent), and 21 August (10
per cent).
All three dates is that they represent days with significant live (and
televised) events.
(On 17 July, Julia Gillard called the election in a press conference which was carried live by many Australian networks; 25 July saw the leaders’
debate, also televised live across a number of networks)
✤ Live events of debate: #ausvotes activity on both 25 July and 21 August
is very strongly skewed towards the evening hours, when those
broadcasts were shown on TV.
On these days, Twitter acts as a backchannel to accompany live
broadcasts.
✤ Which shows,
Focus of Twitter users is on commenting on the unfolding event itself,
rather than on searching for and providing background information.
11. Retweets and @replies
✤ Sharing links to Web resources is a far more common practice
than it is in the coverage of longer--term, broadly foreseeable
activities.
✤ @replying is generally less common.
✤ Communication on this hashtag being more conversational,
discursive and combative, and less informational in character.
12. Social network of the #ausvotes
Community Twitter users may have formed as a result of
✤New connections between
encountering one another through participation in the #ausvotes hashtag
community
✤ Key politicians and parties, as well as a number of well-known journalists
with Twitter accounts, dominate the top 10.
✤ Politicians & Parties
High @juliagillard @tonyabbottmhr @australianlabor
Low @greens and @liberalaus
✤ Journalistic Twitter accounts,
ABC political journalist Annabel Crabb (@annabel-- crabb)
Radio 2UE journalist Latika Bourke (@latikambourke)
@abcnews
13. Retweet and @reply patterns of the four most
replied-to personal accounts
✤A clear distinction between #ausvotes responses to politicians and
journalists.
✤ Gillard and Abbott both receive a substantially larger number of @replies
than retweets.
In the absence of any significant number of responses from the leaders’
accounts, this indicates that #ausvotes users are tweeting at or about,
rather than engaging with the leaders;
✤ The journalists, by contrast, were significantly more active in posting
tweets directly to the #ausvotes hashtag community,
Both Bourke and Crabb also received comparatively fewer @replies
✤ The @auslabor account shows a very different pattern again: it sent a
substantial number of #ausvotes tweets, for which it also received a
significant number of retweets.
14. Conclusion
✤ Twitter itself as a social media platform for the discussion of current
events
✤ Value of such analysis:
It enables us to track overall and individual public user activities over
time and to investigate their interconnectedness with mainstream
media coverage and unfolding political events.
The quantitative work which we have under-- taken here also helps
to pinpoint areas of interest
15. Activity
✤ Go to the three topics listed below, try to identify the differences of
the tweets in the three topics
#MasterChefAU
#Auspol
#qldfloods
✤ You can say something about the contributors, who is sending the
msg? A group of people or is there a larger pulic involved? The
contents? Analysis the pattern? Are they retweets, or original? Are
they conversational or informational? Time sensitive?
✤ Each tweet 1 comment using #mdia5003