2. #Hashtags
Do hashtags help spread
awareness? Do they
actually help?
What effect do they have
on journalism? Do they
take anything away?
Do they make people
look closer or encourage
people to RT and walk
away?
3. What about ?
How has Facebook
changed the way people
access news?
Does changing your profile
picture make a difference?
4. Celebs add to the Martin-Zimmerman Fire?
―And by posing
―What they’re
in these hoodies,
doing is not
they’re making it
going to bring
a black-white
the victim back
issue, instead of
alive.‖
supporting the
- Dan Graca
family, or —
calling for
justice.‖
– Dan Graca
• Celebrities showed support through posting pictures on social media
• Others began to follow this movement, using Instagram and other media to pose with
bowed heads in hoodies
• Sirius XM radio personality Dan Graca called this picture a ―publicity stunt‖
• Do you think that this ―picture activism‖ is a publicity stunt?
• Does this picture provoke a black/white issue? Could it, and others like it, bring justice
to Trayvon Martin?
5. Mining for gold with Twitter
Media companies increasingly using Twitter sentiment
for stories, like this example from CNN.
6. Tweets for sale
Why?
1. Twitter data through its API is easy to gather (140 characters or less)
2. Lots of it!
3. CHEAP! Aside from the cost of developing software (algorithm), data
is FREE.
What’s the Problem?
1. Accuracy. Context.
2. What can we really infer from the data?
3. Limitations