This presentation looks at the ways in which the riots were discussed on Twitter, during the four days of rioting in the UK during the summer of 2011. The 'Reading the Riots on Twitter' project examined 2.6 million riot tweets, focusing specifically on the role of rumours, whether incitement was organised on Twitter as well as who the key users were that tweeted the riots. Finally, it looks at how emergency services in particular can improve their social media strategies in the future.
(Course updated July 18, 2012)
MCUrgent is a social media emergency notification system developed by Morris County and used in multi-jurisdictional emergencies.
This beginner course explains what it is, how it was developed, and how municipalities can post messages.
MCUrgent: A Shared Emergency Information NetworkMorris County NJ
A presentation by Carol A. Spencer to the Morris County NJ Freeholders & OEM Coordinators, outlining a program to use social media to communicate with constituents in an emergency.
The New War Correspondents: The Rise of Civic Media Curation in Urban WarfareAndrés Monroy-Hernández
In this paper we examine the information sharing practices of people living in cities amid armed conflict. We describe the volume and frequency of microblogging activity on Twitter from four cities afflicted by the Mexican Drug War, showing how citizens use social media to alert one another and to comment on the violence that plagues their commu-nities. We then investigate the emergence of civic media “curators,” individuals who act as “war correspondents” by aggregating and disseminating information to large num-bers of people on social media. We conclude by outlining the implications of our observations for the design of civic media systems in wartime.
This talk gives an overview on the history of communication moving towards todays information overload and how TWIMPACT solves the real-time relevance filtering for Twitter to make activities in the socio-sphere measurable.
(Course updated July 18, 2012)
MCUrgent is a social media emergency notification system developed by Morris County and used in multi-jurisdictional emergencies.
This beginner course explains what it is, how it was developed, and how municipalities can post messages.
MCUrgent: A Shared Emergency Information NetworkMorris County NJ
A presentation by Carol A. Spencer to the Morris County NJ Freeholders & OEM Coordinators, outlining a program to use social media to communicate with constituents in an emergency.
The New War Correspondents: The Rise of Civic Media Curation in Urban WarfareAndrés Monroy-Hernández
In this paper we examine the information sharing practices of people living in cities amid armed conflict. We describe the volume and frequency of microblogging activity on Twitter from four cities afflicted by the Mexican Drug War, showing how citizens use social media to alert one another and to comment on the violence that plagues their commu-nities. We then investigate the emergence of civic media “curators,” individuals who act as “war correspondents” by aggregating and disseminating information to large num-bers of people on social media. We conclude by outlining the implications of our observations for the design of civic media systems in wartime.
This talk gives an overview on the history of communication moving towards todays information overload and how TWIMPACT solves the real-time relevance filtering for Twitter to make activities in the socio-sphere measurable.
within this presentation i will be researching into all the ways manchester became so great and was made into this powerful city of industrial brilliance.
Twitter 101 - an introduction to TwitterKeith Bradnam
A broad overview of everything to do with twitter. Aimed at the newcomer who may have heard of twitter, and would like to know more.
This slideshow is from a presentation that I give regularly at my local community network.
New research from Ipsos MORI indicates that during the 2015 General Election, politics has (mostly) won the social media battle against entertainment news stories.
(SKIP TO SLIDE 113 IF YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT TWITTER IS.) A presentation I gave at the Nurun Montreal head office in February 2009. The subject covers an idea I had about leveraging the viral potential of Twitter to benefit both its users and third parties looking for some marketing love.
Picturing the Social: Talk for Transforming Digital Methods Winter SchoolFarida Vis
This talk highlights the work of the Visual Social Media Lab and the Picturing the Social project. It summarises the key research questions and aims of the project. It highlights the value of interdisciplinarity and working closely with industry in this area. It also focuses on the way in which me might study different types of structures involved in the circulation and the scopic regimes that make social media images more or less visible. It also tries to unpack how we can start to think about APIs as 'method' and looks at the different ways in which we can get access to different kinds of social media image data. Both through public ('free') APIs and ('pay for') firehose data.
Presentation for: Masterclass 19: Using social media in public engagement for the Public Engagement & Impact Team at The University of Sheffield, 26 November 2014.
Researching Social Media – Big Data and Social Media AnalysisFarida Vis
Researching Social Media – Big Data and Social Media Analysis, presentation for the Social Media for Researchers: A Sheffield Universities Social Media Symposium, 23 September 2014
ESRC Research Methods Festival - From Flickr to Snapchat: The challenge of an...Farida Vis
From Flickr to Snapchat: The challenge of analysing images on social media. Presentation part of the 'Challenges/Opportunities of Using Social Media for Social Science Research' panel. 9th of July 2014
Activities around digging have again become very popular recently, including in the attention they have received from cultural institutions. Many cultural institutions have in recent years recreated wartime (allotment) gardens to highlight a range of different issues and values. Such exhibitions and events, organized during a time of renewed austerity measures, increased concerns around food and the environment, draw obvious parallels to the contemporary moment, offering possibilities to rethink our own values. This panel brings together exciting new research that focuses on this renewed interest in growing your own food.
The first half of the panel highlights work from the recently completed ‘Everyday Growing Cultures’ project, which focused on the potentially transformative value of connecting two currently disparate communities: allotments growers and the open data community. Based on comparative research in Manchester and Sheffield, it explores potential effects of digital engagement and open data for allotment holders to build stronger, more active communities, benefit local economies and improve environmental sustainability and food security. The second half of the panel seeks to understand the different ways in which issues around digging have reemerged in recent years, to understand these by looking at how they have been expressed and mobilized by different people and actors. This can be expressed as actual digging linked to food production, symbolic digging as performance, digging up local histories, or as new forms of gift-giving.
Panel presentations from: Farida Vis, Ian Humphrey, Yana Manyukhina and Penny Rivlin. Penny's slides will be uploaded separately.
Where do images fit in the era of ‘Big Data’?Farida Vis
This presentation makes an argument for a more central focus on images within social media research. It offers approaches and concrete examples from both 'Big data' and 'small data' perspectives. Presented at the Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities: Big Data Workshop, London, June 25 2013.
Twitter analytics: some thoughts on sampling, tools, data, ethics and user re...Farida Vis
Keynote delivered at the SRA Social Media in Social Research conference, London, 24 June, 2013. The presentation highlights some thoughts on sampling, tools, data, ethics and user requirements for Twitter analytics, including an overview of a series of recent tools.
These are the slides of a keynote I gave at Emerce Eday on 25 October 2012 in Rotterdam.
The short description of my talk was as follows: With the ongoing rise of third party applications like Klout, tools for measuring Twitter influence are important to understand. This presentation takes a look at the different ways in which influence measures have been developed for Twitter. In particular it will use the case study of the UK riots of 2011 for which a database of 2.6 million tweets was collected in collaboration with Twitter and The Guardian newspaper. By examining the top 1000 most tweeted accounts, it will give further insight in how influence worked during this crisis event, specifically highlighting the emergence of the ‘ordinary influential’ during 2011 as well as how large organisations have incorporated social media practices.
within this presentation i will be researching into all the ways manchester became so great and was made into this powerful city of industrial brilliance.
Twitter 101 - an introduction to TwitterKeith Bradnam
A broad overview of everything to do with twitter. Aimed at the newcomer who may have heard of twitter, and would like to know more.
This slideshow is from a presentation that I give regularly at my local community network.
New research from Ipsos MORI indicates that during the 2015 General Election, politics has (mostly) won the social media battle against entertainment news stories.
(SKIP TO SLIDE 113 IF YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT TWITTER IS.) A presentation I gave at the Nurun Montreal head office in February 2009. The subject covers an idea I had about leveraging the viral potential of Twitter to benefit both its users and third parties looking for some marketing love.
Similar to Reading The Riots on Twitter at LIFT12 (10)
Picturing the Social: Talk for Transforming Digital Methods Winter SchoolFarida Vis
This talk highlights the work of the Visual Social Media Lab and the Picturing the Social project. It summarises the key research questions and aims of the project. It highlights the value of interdisciplinarity and working closely with industry in this area. It also focuses on the way in which me might study different types of structures involved in the circulation and the scopic regimes that make social media images more or less visible. It also tries to unpack how we can start to think about APIs as 'method' and looks at the different ways in which we can get access to different kinds of social media image data. Both through public ('free') APIs and ('pay for') firehose data.
Presentation for: Masterclass 19: Using social media in public engagement for the Public Engagement & Impact Team at The University of Sheffield, 26 November 2014.
Researching Social Media – Big Data and Social Media AnalysisFarida Vis
Researching Social Media – Big Data and Social Media Analysis, presentation for the Social Media for Researchers: A Sheffield Universities Social Media Symposium, 23 September 2014
ESRC Research Methods Festival - From Flickr to Snapchat: The challenge of an...Farida Vis
From Flickr to Snapchat: The challenge of analysing images on social media. Presentation part of the 'Challenges/Opportunities of Using Social Media for Social Science Research' panel. 9th of July 2014
Activities around digging have again become very popular recently, including in the attention they have received from cultural institutions. Many cultural institutions have in recent years recreated wartime (allotment) gardens to highlight a range of different issues and values. Such exhibitions and events, organized during a time of renewed austerity measures, increased concerns around food and the environment, draw obvious parallels to the contemporary moment, offering possibilities to rethink our own values. This panel brings together exciting new research that focuses on this renewed interest in growing your own food.
The first half of the panel highlights work from the recently completed ‘Everyday Growing Cultures’ project, which focused on the potentially transformative value of connecting two currently disparate communities: allotments growers and the open data community. Based on comparative research in Manchester and Sheffield, it explores potential effects of digital engagement and open data for allotment holders to build stronger, more active communities, benefit local economies and improve environmental sustainability and food security. The second half of the panel seeks to understand the different ways in which issues around digging have reemerged in recent years, to understand these by looking at how they have been expressed and mobilized by different people and actors. This can be expressed as actual digging linked to food production, symbolic digging as performance, digging up local histories, or as new forms of gift-giving.
Panel presentations from: Farida Vis, Ian Humphrey, Yana Manyukhina and Penny Rivlin. Penny's slides will be uploaded separately.
Where do images fit in the era of ‘Big Data’?Farida Vis
This presentation makes an argument for a more central focus on images within social media research. It offers approaches and concrete examples from both 'Big data' and 'small data' perspectives. Presented at the Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities: Big Data Workshop, London, June 25 2013.
Twitter analytics: some thoughts on sampling, tools, data, ethics and user re...Farida Vis
Keynote delivered at the SRA Social Media in Social Research conference, London, 24 June, 2013. The presentation highlights some thoughts on sampling, tools, data, ethics and user requirements for Twitter analytics, including an overview of a series of recent tools.
These are the slides of a keynote I gave at Emerce Eday on 25 October 2012 in Rotterdam.
The short description of my talk was as follows: With the ongoing rise of third party applications like Klout, tools for measuring Twitter influence are important to understand. This presentation takes a look at the different ways in which influence measures have been developed for Twitter. In particular it will use the case study of the UK riots of 2011 for which a database of 2.6 million tweets was collected in collaboration with Twitter and The Guardian newspaper. By examining the top 1000 most tweeted accounts, it will give further insight in how influence worked during this crisis event, specifically highlighting the emergence of the ‘ordinary influential’ during 2011 as well as how large organisations have incorporated social media practices.
Allotment (publics): an open data and data driven journalism perspective Farida Vis
This talk was delivered at the USING OPEN DATA policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism workshop (19-20 June, 2012), organised by the W3C, hosted by the European Commission.
The talk addresses issues of everyday data, related to ‘mundane issues’ that people relate to easily, principally because they feature in their everyday lives. This allows for a rethinking of political participation and civic engagement beyond the rather stale ways in which this is measured traditionally. The paper is interested in ‘really useful’ data, which has the ordinary end user firmly in mind. Specifically it highlights these issues through a case study of allotments in the UK, small plots of land rented from the council to grow fruits and vegetables. This case study highlights larger issues concerning the use and value of open data as well as how data driven journalism can play a role in telling these important stories. It highlight this as an open data case study that could embed open data ideas more firmly in the mainstream and take it outside the world of technology. Having an allotment and growing your own food have become incredibly popular in recent years. Due to a real shortage in allotments, lack of creation of new plots, and ever-growing waiting lists, this research is interested in building on and extending previous work in this area, addressing the following questions: How can allotment data be made really useful?; How can open data go mainstream, securing wide use adoption?
This presentation looks at alternative ways to gauge how people understand flu pandemics. By looking at what is popular on Amazon.com through searching 'flu pandemics' and 'pandemics' it highlights the meeting of a number of important discourses and the emergence of new ones, specifically within fiction. What are the implications of this?
Welocme to ViralQR, your best QR code generator.ViralQR
Welcome to ViralQR, your best QR code generator available on the market!
At ViralQR, we design static and dynamic QR codes. Our mission is to make business operations easier and customer engagement more powerful through the use of QR technology. Be it a small-scale business or a huge enterprise, our easy-to-use platform provides multiple choices that can be tailored according to your company's branding and marketing strategies.
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We are here to make the process of creating QR codes easy and smooth, thus enhancing customer interaction and making business more fluid. We very strongly believe in the ability of QR codes to change the world for businesses in their interaction with customers and are set on making that technology accessible and usable far and wide.
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Ever since its inception, we have successfully served many clients by offering QR codes in their marketing, service delivery, and collection of feedback across various industries. Our platform has been recognized for its ease of use and amazing features, which helped a business to make QR codes.
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Additionally, there is a 14-day free offer to ViralQR, which is an exceptional opportunity for new users to take a feel of this platform. One can easily subscribe from there and experience the full dynamic of using QR codes. The subscription plans are not only meant for business; they are priced very flexibly so that literally every business could afford to benefit from our service.
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Subscribers of ViralQR receive detailed analytics and tracking tools in light of having a view of the core values of QR code performance. Our analytics dashboard shows aggregate views and unique views, as well as detailed information about each impression, including time, device, browser, and estimated location by city and country.
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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
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3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
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Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
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Reading The Riots on Twitter at LIFT12
1. READING
THE RIOTS
ON TWITTER
Rob Procter (University of Manchester)
Farida Vis (University of Leicester)
Alexander Voss (University of St Andrews)
[Funded by JISC]
#readingtheriots
2. READING
THE RIOTS
ON TWITTER UK riots (6-9 August 2011)
Police shoot and kill Mark Duggan on 4 August.
[Day 1 Tottenham – 6 August]
People gather outside the police station in Tottenham
to speak to a senior officer. No one speaks to them.
9pm family leaves, tensions grow. Police cars set on
fire. Intense looting, further fires and running battles
with the police ensue.
4. READING
THE RIOTS [Day 2: rest of London]
ON TWITTER
Riots spread to Enfield, 6 miles
north of Tottenham.
Fewer clashes with the police,
more focused on looting shops.
Similar disturbances in the south, in Brixton.
Further minor outbreaks elsewhere in London,
including in Oxford Circus, Hackney and Waltham
Forrest.
5. READING
THE RIOTS [Day 3: The disorder spreads]
ON TWITTER
Monday saw the most intense 24 hours of civil
unrest in recent history. 22 out of London‟s 32
boroughs were affected.
Two people dead. Rioting spreads to the
Midlands, Birmingham, West Bromwich,
Nottingham, Leicester, Liverpool and elsewhere.
6. READING
THE RIOTS [Day 4: Extra policing]
ON TWITTER
Unprecedented numbers of police in London.
Only minor incidents in the capital. Rioting
continues in the rest of the UK, including in
Birmingham where 3 young men were killed while
protecting shops.
Disturbances in Manchester and Salford – intense
looting of the city centre.
7. READING
What was going on?
THE RIOTS
ON TWITTER
“Criminality pure and
simple”
[Government repeatedly claimed]
NO links to poverty, lack of education,
opportunity, economic situation
NO NEED FOR AN INQUIRY (nothing to see here,
move along)
8. READING
The accusation
THE RIOTS
ON TWITTER
SOCIAL MEDIA =
TO BLAME FOR THE
RIOTS
BBM = Facebook = Twitter
Blackberry messenger closed network
9. READING
The accusers
THE RIOTS
ON TWITTER
David Cameron, Prime Minister
…“whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these
websites and services when we know they are plotting violence,
disorder and criminality”.
On the riots: “struck by how they were organised via social media”.
Louise Mensch, Conservative MP
Proposed temporary shutdown of Facebook and Twitter.
“Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook&
Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore. World won't
implode”.
12. READING
The defenders
THE RIOTS
ON TWITTER
THE POLICE (among many others)
Vital channel of communication
Kevin Hoy, web manager Greater Manchester police
Twitter allows for “direct reassurance” and “dispel rumours …
in a way that we could never have achieved previously”
On Use of Twitter: “overwhelmingly positive”
13. READING
The general public
THE RIOTS
ON TWITTER
Two-thirds support social networking
blackout in future riots
“A poll of 973 adults carried out for the online security
firm Unisys found 70% of adults supported the shutdown of
Twitter, Facebook and Blackberry Messenger (BBM), while
only 27% disagreed.”
Support strongest among 65+, weakest
among 18-24 year olds.
15. READING
THE RIOTS
ON TWITTER What role did social media play?
2.6 million riot tweets (donated by Twitter)
700,000 individual accounts
Initially:
o Role of Rumours
o Did incitement take place? [no – #riotcleanup]
o What is the role of different actors on Twitter?
48. READING
No evidence of incitement
THE RIOTS
ON TWITTER
BUT…
Celebrating having started rumours
(on the #readingtheriotshashtag)
Compete to get the best rumour adopted?
Vitriol against looters
50. READING
THE RIOTS
ON TWITTER
Who tweeted the riots? - categories
Top 200 Twitter accounts by actor type
140000
125768
120000 < mainstream media
100000
79043
80000 < journalists
59193 < riot accounts
60000
51534
45869
40000
30839 32308
25464
22896
16136 18163
20000 13303 14065 <
8285
4607 5757 5962
3196 spoof
4011
1031
0
51. READING
THE RIOTS
ON TWITTER
Who tweeted the riots?
Lots of different kinds of users
o Mainstream media + individual journalists mentioned most.
o Riotcleanup most mentioned individual account.
o Greater Manchester Police in the top 10 individual accounts.
Emergency services low overall.
Organise – broadcast – find information – voice
opinions – satire the riots, rioters and
commentators
53. READING
THE RIOTS
ON TWITTER
Who tweeted the riots?
Lots of different kinds of users
o Mainstream media + individual journalists mentioned most.
o Riotcleanup most mentioned individual account.
o Greater Manchester Police in the top 10 individual accounts.
Emergency services low overall.
Organise – broadcast – find information – voice
opinions – satire the riots, rioters and
commentators
54. READING
THE RIOTS
ON TWITTER 3 spoof accounts in top 200
Number 13, 6697 mentions
Number 20, 5939 mentions
Number 23, 5527 mentions
55. READING
THE RIOTS
ON TWITTER
Satirical comments and images
Fake PR for Rupert Murdoch:„SkyNews is right.
#LondonRiots all Twitter‟s fault. Give Twitter to me, we‟ll
strip it of importance and relevancy like we did to MySpace.‟
Can‟t get into BBM?
„just ask News International‟
Images of people planking during the riots
56. READING
THE RIOTS
ON TWITTER Conclusions Predictions
o Understand context o Listening platform (40%)
o Local context important o Improve role of police
o The rise of individuals o Downside of police on
Twitter?
o Better contain rumours
o Build on teams that can
o Better distribute handle and rapidly
information analyse big data
o Role of the emergency o Where will crisis
services - Everyday communication move?
Platforms? Streaming?
57. READING
THE RIOTS Jonathan Richards
Alastair Dant
ON TWITTER Katie Loweth
Marta Cantijoch
Yana Manyukhina
Rob Procter (University of Manchester) Mike Thelwall
Farida Vis (University of Leicester) Steven Gray
Alexander Voss (University of St Andrews) Rachel Gibson
[Funded by JISC] Andy Hudson Smith
http://www.analysingsocialmedia.org
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