Social Media Data: Twitter Scraping on NeCTAR

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Presentation from the 2015 Digital Humanities Conference held at the University of Western Sydney, June 2015. Co presented with Jeremy Hammond, and written with Fiona Martin and Daniel Yazbek

Education

Social Media Data: Twitter
Scraping on NeCTAR
Jonathon Hutchinson, Jeremy Hammond, Fiona Martin,
Daniel Yazbek
Digital Humanities Conference, University of Sydney - June 2015

Why Research Social
Media?
• Ephemeral, temporary, banal content
• Duality of hyperbole in social media (use vs.
used)
• Economics: large user base but no profit model
(Twitter especially)
• But… Everyone’s doing it, which prompts us to
research
@dhutchman

What are the challenges?
• Ephemeral
• Negotiating public/private/intimate boundaries
• Individual + collective ethics, distributed responsibility
• Ethics
• Access/representative of users/populations
• Skills - researcher skills also
• Policy and law
@dhutchman

Opportunities…
• New perspectives/methodologies
• New research questions
• Access to newly found communities
• Immediacy
• All media are social, but social media transverses all of
them
• Advance skills as a researcher and as students
@dhutchman

Our interests…
• Identify actors, agency and roles
• Map networks and identify communicative patterns
• Explore how agency impacts a networked society (challenging
dominant discourses)
• Establish how networked communication intersects with
institutions/organisations
• Identify emerging social network mediated trends/habits
• Investigate aspects of policy & governance
@dhutchman

Research
Hypothesis
“Conduct
Research”
Communicate
@jeremy5211

Digital Research
Hypothesis
“Conduct
Research”
Communicate
“Stuff” goes
in
Knowledge
comes out
@jeremy5211

Digital Research
NCRIS, see
education.gov.au/national-collaborative-research-infrastructure-strategy-ncris
$2.5 billion
(since 2004)

1. Define data set
2. Collect data
3. Analyse data
4. Test hypothesis
5. Hypothesis evolution
6. Repeat 1-5
Research
Hypothesis
“Conduct
Research”
Communicate
@jeremy5211

1. Define data set twitter data on #dh2015
2. Collect data launchpod.intersect.org.au

launchpod.intersect.org.au
nectar.org.au/research-cloud
apps.twitter.com
Example Output
http://146.118.96.19/1/
http://146.118.96.19/logs/log.log
@jeremy5211
Digital Research

MECO and Launchpod
• Mobile Media - http://www.mobileinternetresearch.net/
• ABC #7DaysLater (Hutchinson, 2015)
• Online Journalism (O’Donnell & Hutchinson, 2015)
• #OurABC, #OurSBS (Martin, forthcoming)
• #KoinUntuk (Goggin, Hutchinson, Hammond, Goodwin, forthcoming)
• NSW #Playsafe (Goodwin & Hutchinson, forthcoming)
• #SydneySeige (Sinpeng & Hutchinson, forthcoming)
• Interests developing in #ISIS, #DoubleJ, #HeavyMetal, #China
• Basis for the Digital Methods Research Working Group, ANZCA

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Michael Zimmer

Efficient Use of Internet and Social Media Tools in Innovation Processes

Mikko Ahonen

1. The document discusses efficient use of internet and social media tools in innovation processes, including concepts like open innovation, crowdsourcing, and social network analysis. 2. It provides examples of innovation intermediaries and how communities and social media like blogs can be used to capture ideas and get user feedback. 3. Social network analysis is discussed as a way to map knowledge flows and connections between people in an organization to enhance innovative thinking.

ELPUB 2018 Feminist Open Science workshop

Leslie Chan

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Summary of my research

Paul Reilly

In an unstable and unpredictable media environment (Cunningham & Turner 2010), public service media organizations have been encouraged to explore new production techniques that engage the audience in innovative and exciting ways while delivering content over multiple digital platforms (Debrett 2010). In a multiplatform media environment described as one that intersects the single audience member with the mass audience (Enli 2008), PSM host platforms that enable content to not only be published by the institution’s professional media staff but to also host content contributed by the audience. Multiplatform within PSM also engage the characteristics of participatory cultures where users refuse “to simply accept what they are given, but rather insists on the right to become full participants” (Jenkins, 2006, p. 131), thereby appropriating media for new contexts. Walker (2009) suggests participatory cultures have seen PSM move beyond the one-way communication model of web 1.0 to an engaged, democratic and inclusive communication model more representative of web 2.0, further complicating the media environment.

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