This document discusses elected officials' use of social media and proposes ways to analyze their Twitter activity. It poses questions about potential biases, connections between officials, how they engage with constituents, and how their language and messaging evolves over time. The researcher describes tools and datasets that could be used to collect and analyze Twitter data from officials in the U.S. Congress, Korean National Assembly, and other bodies. Keeping detailed records of research methods is important.
Networked individualism has led to looser, more fragmented social networks where individuals have partial membership in multiple communities. Relationships are more specialized and fleeting. Digital technologies like broadband internet, smartphones, and social media have facilitated this shift by allowing pervasive generation and consumption of user-generated content in real-time across multiple platforms. While these changes broaden access to information and connections, they also raise uncertainties around issues like social norms, information policies, and the impact on identity and influence in society.
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This document discusses elected officials' use of social media and proposes ways to analyze their Twitter activity. It poses questions about potential biases, connections between officials, how they engage with constituents, and how their language and messaging evolves over time. The researcher describes tools and datasets that could be used to collect and analyze Twitter data from officials in the U.S. Congress, Korean National Assembly, and other bodies. Keeping detailed records of research methods is important.
Networked individualism has led to looser, more fragmented social networks where individuals have partial membership in multiple communities. Relationships are more specialized and fleeting. Digital technologies like broadband internet, smartphones, and social media have facilitated this shift by allowing pervasive generation and consumption of user-generated content in real-time across multiple platforms. While these changes broaden access to information and connections, they also raise uncertainties around issues like social norms, information policies, and the impact on identity and influence in society.
This document outlines challenges and opportunities for decolonizing digital humanities. It discusses how digital humanities has traditionally focused on Western texts and excluded work by marginalized groups. It also notes concerns around a lack of diversity in who conducts digital humanities research and receives funding. The document advocates for recent efforts like #transformDH that center issues of race, class, gender and disability. It provides an example project on digitizing Chinese Canadian histories that highlights opportunities for community engagement and more inclusive digital scholarship.
This document summarizes the HathiTrust Research Center's Extracted Features Dataset, which contains page-level extracted linguistic features from over 4.8 million public domain books in the HathiTrust Digital Library. The dataset is huge in size, openly accessible online, and can be used to gain cultural, historical and linguistic insights by analyzing patterns across large text corpora. It is being integrated with visualization tools like Bookworm to allow users to query trends over time and compare occurrences of words or concepts between languages and places.
Understanding the world with NLP: interactions between society, behaviour and...Diana Maynard
The document discusses analyzing social media data, particularly tweets, for natural language processing tasks. It provides examples of analyzing tweets to understand information sharing during disasters, monitor opinions in real-time, detect topics and analyze political discussions. It also discusses challenges in analyzing tweets like informal language, ambiguity and misleading contexts or hashtags. Precise information extraction and annotation of tweets is needed to accurately identify hate speech, abuse and analyze its targets and changes over time. A multi-step pipeline including collection, preprocessing, information extraction and classification is proposed to understand abuse toward politicians from tweets surrounding UK elections.
The document summarizes a competitive analysis of library websites and ethnographic observations conducted at several libraries. Key findings from the competitive analysis include strengths and possible improvements for the websites of three libraries. Ethnographic observations identified common resources available at libraries and typical patron activities. Three personas were created based on observed patrons: a 25-29 year old male seeking internet access, a 20-24 year old female using a personal computer, and a 55-59 year old male checking out materials. The personas outline their goals, behaviors, and expectations to help libraries better serve patron needs.
This document provides background information and outlines a proposed study on developing digital libraries to provide access to cultural heritage materials for non-literate people in Morocco. It begins with an overview of the author's experience in Morocco and rationale for the study. It then reviews relevant literature on concepts of literacy, culture, cultural heritage and digital libraries. The document proposes research questions about how cultural usability and library and information science theories can inform the design of such a digital library system and interface. It concludes with an outline of the proposed ethnographic methodology for the study.
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Series of Internacional Conferences
Civil Society Organizations
Transparency and Responsibility
1st Conference "Good Governance and Regulation"
Held at the Goeth Institut Lissabon
Organized by Humaneasy Consulting and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Portugal
More at http://www.humaneasy.com/conf/
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The Data: http://repository.iit.edu/handle/10560/3057
The Paper: http://repository.iit.edu/handle/10560/3195
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Carlos Trindade (Instituto Ruben Rolo, Lisbon)
Series of Internacional Conferences
Civil Society Organizations
Transparency and Responsibility
2nd Conference "Ethics, Transparency and Responsability"
Held at the Goeth Institut Lissabon
Organized by Humaneasy Consulting and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Portugal
More at http://www.humaneasy.com/conf/
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Accountability in the Third Sector – Institutionalisation of Transparency and...Humaneasy Consulting
Stefanie Dobbertin (germany)
Series of Internacional Conferences
Civil Society Organizations
Transparency and Responsibility
2nd Conference "Ethics, Transparency and Responsability"
Held at the Goeth Institut Lissabon
Organized by Humaneasy Consulting and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Portugal
More at http://www.humaneasy.com/conf/
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From DIMACS Workshop on Building Communities for Transforming Social Media Research Through New Approaches for Collecting, Analyzing, and Exploring Social Media Data http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/SocialMedia/program.html
Social Communications: Getting Prepared and Making it HappenMorris County NJ
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This session covers how the web has come to dominate the news gathering and delivery process. It also shows how interactive it can be using social media networks like Twitter
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An introduction to social media and social networks, covering the basic definitions, why they are important in today's web environment, and an overview of how to build a community yourself. Given at the Genesee Valley Psychological Association's 2009 Annual Conference.
Introduction to language technology on social media: Answers to following questions 1) What is social media?
2) What is language technology?
3) What do you do on social media?
4) How does language technology help you on social media?
5) How does language technology harm you on social media?
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#AMC2013 Participatory Social Impact ResearchGeorgia Bullen
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Luís de Sousa (Instituto Universitário Europeu, Florence)
Series of Internacional Conferences
Civil Society Organizations
Transparency and Responsibility
1st Conference "Good Governance and Regulation"
Held at the Goeth Institut Lissabon
Organized by Humaneasy Consulting and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Portugal
More at http://www.humaneasy.com/conf/
Twitter is increasingly becoming a medium through which constituents can lobby their elected representatives in Congress about issues that matter to them. Past research has focused on how citizens communicate with each other or how members of Congress (MOCs) use social media in general; our research examines how citizens communicate with MOCs. We contribute to existing literature through the careful examination of hundreds of citizen-authored tweets and the development of a categorization scheme to describe common strategies of lobbying on Twitter. Our findings show that contrary to past research that assumed citizens used Twitter to merely shout out their opinions on issues, citizens utilize a variety of sophisticated techniques to impact political outcomes.
The Data: http://repository.iit.edu/handle/10560/3057
The Paper: http://repository.iit.edu/handle/10560/3195
The Project "Transparency & Democracy" for Trade Unions in PortugalHumaneasy Consulting
Carlos Trindade (Instituto Ruben Rolo, Lisbon)
Series of Internacional Conferences
Civil Society Organizations
Transparency and Responsibility
2nd Conference "Ethics, Transparency and Responsability"
Held at the Goeth Institut Lissabon
Organized by Humaneasy Consulting and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Portugal
More at http://www.humaneasy.com/conf/
Brief presentation on the "International NGO Accountability Charter"Humaneasy Consulting
Este documento descreve a Carta de Responsabilização Internacional de ONGs, uma ferramenta para promover a excelência, transparência e responsabilização entre organizações não governamentais internacionais. A carta define princípios comuns e melhores práticas para aumentar a transparência e responsabilização interna e externa, encorajar comunicação com partes interessadas e melhorar o desempenho e eficácia das organizações.
Accountability in the Third Sector – Institutionalisation of Transparency and...Humaneasy Consulting
Stefanie Dobbertin (germany)
Series of Internacional Conferences
Civil Society Organizations
Transparency and Responsibility
2nd Conference "Ethics, Transparency and Responsability"
Held at the Goeth Institut Lissabon
Organized by Humaneasy Consulting and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Portugal
More at http://www.humaneasy.com/conf/
The document discusses online collaborative projects between Neveh Channah Girls High School in Israel and schools in Montreal, Canada. It provides an overview of the schools and outlines the benefits of collaborative projects, including motivating students, developing collaboration and technology skills, and promoting multicultural understanding. Recommendations are provided for finding partners, organizing projects, choosing tools, and what is needed to succeed in global collaboration.
From DIMACS Workshop on Building Communities for Transforming Social Media Research Through New Approaches for Collecting, Analyzing, and Exploring Social Media Data http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/SocialMedia/program.html
Social Communications: Getting Prepared and Making it HappenMorris County NJ
The document provides guidance on using social media for communications. It discusses why libraries should use social platforms like Facebook and Twitter, as citizens increasingly use mobile devices to access these spaces. It recommends focusing on the main social channels and knowing the demographics of each. The document also provides tips on what content to share on each channel, such as events, resources, and photos. It stresses the importance of planning by identifying target audiences, designing social media segments, adopting policies, and training staff. The overall message is that libraries must engage citizens where they are online through thoughtful social media strategies.
The Jewish Leadership Council - Leading In 30 May 2013Esther Kustanowitz
The document discusses leadership in the digital age and the use of social media tools to promote initiatives and develop relationships. It provides an agenda for a talk on leadership concepts, how social media can help amplify messages and empower teams. Examples of effective social media interactions are given, as well as tips for organizations on determining voice and compelling content. Tools like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest and blogs are explored.
In this talk, Dr. Jeanne Bohannon parses out how and why hashtags can be used rhetorically on Twitter. Please cite and credit if you use this slideshare.
WeGov Analysis Tools to connect Policy Makers with Citizens OnlineTimo Wandhoefer
The document summarizes the WeGov project, which aims to connect policy makers with citizens online using analysis tools. The project involves partners from several European countries. It is developing a toolbox of social media analysis tools to help policy makers understand public opinions and engage citizens. The toolbox will allow searching social networks, analyzing discussions to identify topics and opinions, and modeling user behaviors. It is being tested with governments and is expected to be finalized in September 2012.
This document discusses using social media for nonprofits. It provides an overview of popular social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs. It outlines pros and cons of social media and how to use it as a fundraising tool by starting with a plan, setting goals and identifying target audiences. Examples are given of how organizations have used social media successfully for fundraising, awareness building and engagement. Free resources and tools for nonprofits using social media are also listed.
This document discusses social media trends in 2010 and beyond. It notes that 1 in 3 online Americans update their social media status at least weekly. It also states that 31 million Americans will write blogs in 2010 while over 104 million will read blogs. The document emphasizes that social media should be integrated into business strategies and goals, and outlines steps to structure social media use, including establishing policies, examining workflows, and focusing on tactics not tied to specific platforms.
This session covers how the web has come to dominate the news gathering and delivery process. It also shows how interactive it can be using social media networks like Twitter
This document discusses tools for social media engagement and strategies for building staff capacity. It provides an overview of the social media ecosystem and popular platforms like blogs, wikis, YouTube and Twitter. It emphasizes the importance of understanding audience demographics and listening to what people say about an organization online. The document also describes the "23 Things" model for training staff on social media through bite-sized self-guided modules covering different tools and tasks. The goal is to help organizations effectively engage their audiences and build staff skills for using social media.
Breaking Thru the Clutter: How to Market Your Cause and Attract New ChampionsCauseShift
This workshop was facilitated by Scott Henderson, managing director of CauseShift, at the 2011 Global Health and Innovation Conference at Yale University, which is organized by Unite for Sight.
The document outlines a social media strategy for The New Age Online. It recommends listening to online conversations to understand audiences and competitors. Key goals are local outreach, brand visibility, news gathering/dissemination, and driving traffic. Resources include content, production ability, time, and existing social presence. The strategy suggests engaging audiences on popular networks like Facebook and Twitter, using hashtags and journalist accounts. Metrics and contests are recommended to increase engagement and traffic.
An introduction to social media and social networks, covering the basic definitions, why they are important in today's web environment, and an overview of how to build a community yourself. Given at the Genesee Valley Psychological Association's 2009 Annual Conference.
Introduction to language technology on social media: Answers to following questions 1) What is social media?
2) What is language technology?
3) What do you do on social media?
4) How does language technology help you on social media?
5) How does language technology harm you on social media?
This document discusses using social media data in academic research. It provides an overview of the LiveWall platform, which aggregates data from social media sources like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. It then discusses the large volume of content and interactions on social media platforms. The document outlines different types of data that can be accessed from social media APIs and examples of how this data could be used for various research studies in fields like communication, marketing, economics, and psychology.
#AMC2013 Participatory Social Impact ResearchGeorgia Bullen
This document summarizes a research project analyzing the #detroitfuture community on Twitter. The research questions examine who is tweeting, what they are tweeting about, and how the community has evolved over time in relation to media trainings and program events. The methodology uses tools like IFTTT and Twitter archives to collect tweet data and Gephi network analysis software to visualize connections between participants over time and identify communities. Key findings show the importance of online and offline organization in allowing innovative questions and giving participants agency. Future research could include sentiment analysis and interactive network visualizations.
The document discusses the effective use of social media for non-profits. It emphasizes that social media is primarily about building relationships and engaging supporters over the long term, not immediate fundraising goals. Key recommendations include listening to your audience first before publishing content, engaging in conversations to build a community, and using metrics to define and measure success in a way that aligns with your overall goals such as awareness, engagement or fundraising. Patience is required as it can take 18 months to truly engage supporters through social media.
This document provides an overview of using social media effectively for business purposes. It recommends creating a social media strategy that identifies goals, target audiences, key messages, and platforms. Popular platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are discussed. Tips for saving time include using RSS feeds, third-party scheduling apps, and mobile apps. Successful social media requires regular posting of quality content. Resources for further information are also listed.
This document provides an overview of a class on social media and the news revolution. It discusses how social media has changed journalism and news consumption. It covers several key points:
1) New platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and mobile devices have transformed how news is created and shared. Citizen journalism and user-generated content now play a major role.
2) The concept of the "cyber-newsroom" where reporters, sources, and audiences interact online and collaboratively shape news stories.
3) Different models of online journalism that have emerged, like entrepreneurial sites, non-profits, and community blogs.
4) Ways news stories are now told in a multimedia, interactive format rather
This document discusses news and social media platforms. It provides details about upcoming deadlines for a video story, print story, and website that are due in April and May. It also lists suggested topics for a class presentation on the relationship between a digital platform and news, including Snapchat, virtual reality, drones, and various social media sites. The document then discusses how different social media platforms are used for news and their audience demographics, including statistics on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and LinkedIn users that get news from each site.
1. The document discusses various topics relating to news and social media platforms, including an upcoming student presentation that must cover a digital platform, its strengths/weaknesses, and examples of its use for news.
2. It provides statistics on news consumption across different social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn. Platforms vary in their total user bases and the portion that access news on each site.
3. Challenges facing Twitter are discussed, like slower user growth compared to Facebook. Reasons proposed for Twitter's troubles include its chronological newsfeed format and 140-character limit.
This document provides guidance on developing an effective content strategy for a conference. It discusses using various social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to engage attendees and share conference information. Key recommendations include posting regularly with images and questions, using hashtags, and defining metrics for success. The overall goal is to keep potential attendees informed and interested in order to increase engagement.
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We’ve been creating and managing data for centuries, and the recent improvements in technology make more data readily available to more people. This wealth of data can help us make better decisions, understand complex phenomena, and communicate effectively, but only when used appropriately. Visualization is one of the best ways to tell stories from data, but visualizations can also mislead and confuse. In this presentation, I’ll introduce a few exercises you can use with your students to help them learn to design effective information visualizations. We will use real-world data and a variety of software tools to create visualizations that inform, persuade, and illuminate.
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@libbyh
Prof. Edward Lee
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
@edleeprof
Using social media to mobilize people, whether for a product campaign or a political protest, is no easy task. This presentation will highlight some of the challenges organizers and entities face when trying to mobilize and sustain a campaign through social media. It is based on our empirical analysis of the ongoing efforts of political activists to engage the public about the NSA surveillance controversy by use of Twitter.
The team consists of Matt, a political scientist in Chicago, Libby and Jahna, informationists in Chicago and Cyprus respectively, and Andrew, a graduate student in technical communication in Chicago. They are studying how politicians and constituents use social media like Twitter to discuss public policy and the consequences of these conversations. They will collect Twitter data and analyze it using various tools like Python, Stata, MALLET, and Weka stored on an in-house server with Dropbox for sharing files and Excel for organizing data.
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As Twitter becomes a more common means for officials to communicate with their constituents, it becomes more important that we understand how officials use these communication tools. Using data from 380 members of Congress’ Twitter activity during the winter of 2012, we find that officials frequently use Twitter to advertise their political positions and to provide information but rarely to request political action from their constituents or to recognize the good work of others. We highlight a number of differences in communication frequency between men and women, Senators and Representatives, Republicans and Democrats. We provide groundwork for future research examining the behavior of public officials online and testing the predictive power of officials’ social media behavior.
This document analyzes Twitter conversation networks among members of Congress. It finds that Republicans, Senators, and males are more likely to mention members of the opposing party or chamber in their tweets. Senators and males are also more likely to mention members of the opposing party. The networks indicate low cohesion among members and that a small subset of members are explicitly engaged by others, reflecting that Twitter is used more for selective outreach than broadcasting to all members. Overall, the networks on Twitter do not show more polarization than political blogs and represent new media being used for existing behaviors rather than entirely novel political interactions.
Slides as presented at MPSA 2012.
Paper abstract:
This paper uses data from 1,042 tweets posted by or mentioning Chicago Aldermen or Mayor Rahm Emanuel to examine how Chicago politicians use social media. Twitter provides a public communication medium in which constituents and their representatives can have two-way conversations that others can witness and record, and we used qualitative and social network methods to examine conversations between Chicagoans and representatives in city government. We coded the contents of each tweet over the two-week time period (e.g., official business, fundraising) and created representations of the social networks created by the users’ following behaviors. These networks indicate who receives politicians’ tweets and help identify the audiences for political messaging in social media. Our analysis indicates that Chicago’s Aldermen and Mayor use Twitter for social conversations more often than political ones, and that only a small number of Aldermen dominate the resulting conversation networks.
Given at MPSA 2012
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From my CSCW 2012 talk about language, gender, and utility on IMDb. Slides and notes available as PDF:
http://casmlab.org/docs/learning_the_lingo_w_notes.pdf
More info about the project available: http://www.casmlab.org/projects/informationbias/
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Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering
Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
Text Books:
1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
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Elected Officials on Social Media for Webshop 2012
1. ELECTED OFFICIALS
ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Libby Hemphill, PhD
Assistant Professor of Communication and
Information Studies
Illinois Institute of Technology
libbyh@gmail.com
2. Questions from Group
• What’s the bias on Twitter?
• Are Republicans more tightly connected?
• - What do they do in free time? (Which bars do they go to?)
- Where are they tweeting from? (location)
- What do they respond to?
- How engaging are they (tweets, not officials?)
- Tweet-content versus voting record
- What lobbyists/special interest groups do they tweet about/follow/etc?
- How much do they interact (via tweets) with outside groups
- How does their tweeting correlate to offline activity (eg polls)
- Is Twitter it (for social media), eg., #fb
- What is the sentiment of their posts
- Diffs between Individual vs. party posts
- How many people/Who do they follow
- Adoption (Are they/how are they? ...do they like it?)
- demographics of their followers
- differences between "official" versus campaign vs personal (accounts/how many, what kind)
- How many tweets are "spontaneous vs crafted"
- How do talking points change/evolve over time?
- How does their language change/evolve over time?
- How many are bilingual (what languages?)
- What do they misspell?
- Do they like (twitter) or not?
- How frequently are they re-tweeted and how far do they go (depth/diffusion)
- Which lobbyists/special interest groups do they spend time with?
- How does their language (tweet word choice) vary from official statements
- What pics do they post about themselves
- How do they frame their issues? (lang/sentiment/etc)
- How do people respond the their tweets?
- What is their “agenda”
- What devices do they use to tweet
3. I wonder…
• Whether officials are always talking about their next TV appearance
• Whether officials use Twitter to get people to do something like give
money or help out at a community event
• Whether national and local officials use Twitter differently
• Who tweets with their officials
• How what we and our officials do on Twitter effects the “real” world
• If Twitter is a virtual echo chamber in which officials interact mainly
with themselves
• How officials’ use RTs, mentions, and hashtags
• How much of this stuff is unique to Americans? Or Chicagoans? Or
Republicans
• Are officials really tweeting, or is it all staffers in a post-Weiner era
• How what they’re talking about Twitter differs from what they’re talking
about elsewhere like MSNBC or Fox News appearances
• What clues the language they use gives us about how they’ll vote
• How the language they use influences what we do with their tweets
4. Technology Toolkit
Getting and Storing Data Processing and Analyzing Data
• MySQL • MALLET
• MongoDB • NodeXL
• PHP • UCINet
• Ruby •R
• Python • Stata
• Perl • Excel
• Dropbox • Word
• Github • PowerPoint
• Amazon Web Services
5. Why so many?
• Students come in with different skills
• Existing tools focus on topics, but we focus
on people
• Ongoing data collection
• Different representations for different
outlets
• Two-mode networks have different
requirements
6. Datasets
“Mine” Re-used
• U.S. Congress • Twitter Streaming API
• Speech acts
• DW-NOMINATE
• Mentioning each other
• Hashtags (one-mode, two- • Congress.org
mode) • Fowler’s Co-sponsorship
• Links (one-mode, two-mode)
• Census and American
• Korean National
Community Survey
Assembly
• Speech acts • OpenSecrets.org
• Members of the EU
Parliament (coming soon)
7. Takeaways
• Resources matter
• Found data can be sexy but dangerous
• Keep track of the steps you took between
idea and paper (~= metadata)
• Think long term about your work
8. More Info
• Email: libbyh@gmail.com
• Twitter: @libbyh
• Web: http://www.libbyh.com and http://www.casmlab.org
Editor's Notes
DW-NOMINATEPoole and RosenthalCalculated for all CongressesMulti-dimensional scaling method of predicting how a person will voteFirst dimension = liberal/conservativeSecond dimension = cultural/lifestyle issues“polarized” voters are far from 0
What you can get done on a small campus with limited money and no students is different from what you can get done as part of a well-funded group on a well-funded campusFound data has dangers like Twitter’s changing API TOSYou don’t have to be all about open data to benefit from keeping track of your metadata – your “next week self” will need to know that stuffYou don’t need to study everything RIGHT NOWGuardian asks whether Twitter is a leftwing mobInterest in politics and news did not increase adoption of TwitterPosition yourself outside your home discipline - esp when you have no home discipline to begin withFuture question - how do citizens perceive government's use of social media?jumping into something like public officials on social media opens you to a lot of "well, i Know" and "in my experience", even your own, so you need a thick skinScale is interesting, but saying "Twitter is" is like saying "Everyone with a cell phone" or "Everyone with a laptop", it just doesn't make sense