Mapping Online Publics: Understanding How Australians Use Social MediaAxel Bruns
This document discusses social media usage in Australia and research on how Australians use platforms like Facebook and Twitter. It focuses on a study of hashtag usage on Twitter during crises like floods in Queensland and earthquakes in Christchurch. The study analyzed hashtag networks, key accounts, and how information spreads across Twitter. It aims to better understand social media participation patterns and the role of Twitter in the wider media landscape.
Tracking Crises on Twitter: Analysing #qldfloods and #eqnzAxel Bruns
This document discusses the use of social media, particularly Twitter, during crises and natural disasters. It analyzes the hashtags #qldfloods and #eqnz which were used during the 2011 Queensland floods in Australia and the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand. The analysis shows how Twitter was used to coordinate information sharing during the crises and how official accounts helped establish hashtags and amplify key messages. It also compares Twitter usage and themes between the different events.
This document describes a research project that aims to map and analyze how Australians use social media platforms like Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and blogs. The researchers are using computer-assisted methods like data crawling, network analysis, and visualization tools to track activity on these platforms over time and examine different online communities and discussions around hashtags. Some initial findings are presented on hashtag networks and topics like #ausvotes and #qldfloods. The goal is to develop a better understanding of how "networked publics" function in Australia through quantitative and qualitative analysis of large-scale social media data.
Mapping a National Twittersphere: A 'Big Data' Analysis of Australian Twitter...Axel Bruns
This document summarizes a study that mapped the Australian Twitter user network from 2013-2014. Researchers identified over 2.8 million Australian Twitter accounts and filtered this to 140,000 highly connected accounts. The network was mapped and analyzed to understand its structure and how users engaged with topics like news, TV shows and sports. Future work involves deeper analysis of the network over time and comparing networks in other countries.
From #qldfloods to #sandy: Engaging with the Public during Crisis EventsAxel Bruns
Axel Bruns discusses social media use during crisis events like the Queensland floods in Australia and the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand. He analyzes how different platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr were used to share updates, photos, and videos. Key challenges for emergency services are information dissemination to the public and discovering useful information from social media. During crises, social media allows for self-organization of communities, rapid sharing of resources, and selective amplification of important messages. Ongoing research seeks to better evaluate social media communication and develop tools to identify emerging issues from public discussions.
Exploring the Global Demographics of TwitterAxel Bruns
Paper by Axel Bruns, Darryl Woodford, and Troy Sadkowsky presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Daegu, Korea, 22-25 Oct. 2014.
One Day in the Life of a National TwittersphereAxel Bruns
This document summarizes research on analyzing Twitter data from Australian accounts. It describes a project that identified over 2.8 million Twitter accounts based in Australia and captured over 1 billion tweets from these accounts. The research analyzes data from a single day, August 6th 2015, when 1.1 million tweets were posted between 147,000 Australian accounts. The tweets were grouped into clusters based on their topics, such as politics, cricket, and pop culture. Analysis of the clusters found differences in their hashtag usage, positions in the follower network, and interactions both within and across clusters. This research aims to provide a more comprehensive view of the "Australian Twittersphere" than previous studies focused on hashtags or specific events.
Mapping Online Publics: Understanding How Australians Use Social MediaAxel Bruns
This document discusses social media usage in Australia and research on how Australians use platforms like Facebook and Twitter. It focuses on a study of hashtag usage on Twitter during crises like floods in Queensland and earthquakes in Christchurch. The study analyzed hashtag networks, key accounts, and how information spreads across Twitter. It aims to better understand social media participation patterns and the role of Twitter in the wider media landscape.
Tracking Crises on Twitter: Analysing #qldfloods and #eqnzAxel Bruns
This document discusses the use of social media, particularly Twitter, during crises and natural disasters. It analyzes the hashtags #qldfloods and #eqnz which were used during the 2011 Queensland floods in Australia and the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand. The analysis shows how Twitter was used to coordinate information sharing during the crises and how official accounts helped establish hashtags and amplify key messages. It also compares Twitter usage and themes between the different events.
This document describes a research project that aims to map and analyze how Australians use social media platforms like Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and blogs. The researchers are using computer-assisted methods like data crawling, network analysis, and visualization tools to track activity on these platforms over time and examine different online communities and discussions around hashtags. Some initial findings are presented on hashtag networks and topics like #ausvotes and #qldfloods. The goal is to develop a better understanding of how "networked publics" function in Australia through quantitative and qualitative analysis of large-scale social media data.
Mapping a National Twittersphere: A 'Big Data' Analysis of Australian Twitter...Axel Bruns
This document summarizes a study that mapped the Australian Twitter user network from 2013-2014. Researchers identified over 2.8 million Australian Twitter accounts and filtered this to 140,000 highly connected accounts. The network was mapped and analyzed to understand its structure and how users engaged with topics like news, TV shows and sports. Future work involves deeper analysis of the network over time and comparing networks in other countries.
From #qldfloods to #sandy: Engaging with the Public during Crisis EventsAxel Bruns
Axel Bruns discusses social media use during crisis events like the Queensland floods in Australia and the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand. He analyzes how different platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr were used to share updates, photos, and videos. Key challenges for emergency services are information dissemination to the public and discovering useful information from social media. During crises, social media allows for self-organization of communities, rapid sharing of resources, and selective amplification of important messages. Ongoing research seeks to better evaluate social media communication and develop tools to identify emerging issues from public discussions.
Exploring the Global Demographics of TwitterAxel Bruns
Paper by Axel Bruns, Darryl Woodford, and Troy Sadkowsky presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Daegu, Korea, 22-25 Oct. 2014.
One Day in the Life of a National TwittersphereAxel Bruns
This document summarizes research on analyzing Twitter data from Australian accounts. It describes a project that identified over 2.8 million Twitter accounts based in Australia and captured over 1 billion tweets from these accounts. The research analyzes data from a single day, August 6th 2015, when 1.1 million tweets were posted between 147,000 Australian accounts. The tweets were grouped into clusters based on their topics, such as politics, cricket, and pop culture. Analysis of the clusters found differences in their hashtag usage, positions in the follower network, and interactions both within and across clusters. This research aims to provide a more comprehensive view of the "Australian Twittersphere" than previous studies focused on hashtags or specific events.
This document discusses the political uses of social media in Australia. It notes that Facebook is widely used across demographic groups for maintaining local connections, while Twitter is used by more influential professionals for broader discussions through hashtags. Examples of hashtags that drove political discussions include #spill during a leadership challenge and #qldfloods during floods. The document advises politicians to use social media, especially Facebook and Twitter, to engage with voters and debates, but cautions that mistakes can spread widely and quickly online.
‘Big Social Data’ in Context: Connecting Social Media Data and Other SourcesAxel Bruns
This document discusses big social data research and outlines a research project on analyzing data from social media and other online sources to understand public opinion formation in Australia. It aims to develop new methods for integrating large datasets from Facebook, Twitter, news websites and search/browsing data. The project will examine how news and issues spread and change in prominence over time, and how online public discussion networks form and interact across platforms. Initial findings show identifiable networks and discussion trends for different news sources and topics on Twitter.
Social Media in Australia: The Case of TwitterAxel Bruns
Professor Axel Bruns at Queensland University of Technology leads research tracking social media use in Australia, particularly Twitter. His team has identified over 2.8 million active Australian Twitter accounts through 2013. They map these accounts' follower/followee networks and track hashtags, links shared, and other activities to understand how public discourse and information spread occurs online. Their goal is developing a comprehensive model of Australia's online public sphere through large-scale, data-driven analysis of social media over time.
From Geographic Location to Network Location: The Potential of Big Social DataAxel Bruns
This document discusses how geographic location data from social media like Twitter can be used to map social networks and infer user locations based on network connections rather than self-reported geotags. It presents analysis of a dataset of over 140,000 geolocated Australian Twitter users mapped by their stated locations, timezones and connections to show the structure of the "Australian Twittersphere". However, it also notes limitations of relying on Twitter's API policies for long-term research access to social media data.
New Approaches to Large-Scale Social Media Analytics: Investigating Twitter i...Axel Bruns
This document summarizes Professor Axel Bruns' research on analyzing large-scale social media data from Twitter in Australia. The research maps over 2.8 million identified Australian Twitter accounts and their follower/followee networks. It analyzes user engagement patterns around hashtags, news sites, and events. Tracking Australian Twitter activity over time provides a comprehensive dataset for understanding public discussions and responses to events in Australia.
Layers of Communication: Forms of Talk on TwitterAxel Bruns
The document discusses three layers of communication on Twitter: the macro level of hashtags (#hashtags), the meso level of follower networks, and the micro level of direct messages (@mentions). These layers interact and information can transition between them through retweets. Studying them individually provides only a limited understanding, as the layers intersect and public discussions on Twitter are interwoven with the wider media environment. More research is needed on how publics form and interact on Twitter, how communication patterns on Twitter relate to the broader society, and how to apply social media research methods beyond any single platform.
Twitter in Germany: A Big Data PerspectiveAxel Bruns
1) The document discusses research analyzing Twitter usage in Germany from a big data perspective. It identifies approximately 9.2 million unique German-language Twitter accounts and over 2.4 billion tweets posted between September 2013 and 2015.
2) Various statistics and patterns are analyzed regarding German Twitter users, including distributions by country, state, and city. Activity patterns like number of tweets posted per day are also examined.
3) The research aims to better understand factors driving Twitter adoption in Germany, map the German-language Twitter network, and analyze how information spreads. A collaborative news index of German tweets (DETNIX) tracing sharing of news links is also described.
Social Media in Times of Crisis: The Australian PerspectiveAxel Bruns
This document summarizes Associate Professor Axel Bruns' research on social media use during crises in Australia. It discusses two projects analyzing crisis communication - one focusing on the 2011 Queensland floods and another on detecting crisis events in social media. During the 2011 floods, the #qldfloods community rapidly organized online to share information. Emergency services also began adopting social media, though without clear strategies. The document outlines challenges in using social media for crisis information dissemination and discovery, such as identifying emerging events and evaluating information sources.
CCI Winter School Workshop on Digital Methods and Social Media AnalyticsJean Burgess
This document discusses digital methods and social media analytics. It begins by outlining the key steps in digital methods like data gathering, processing, analysis and representation. It then discusses the rise of big data and how computational social science is using large datasets. Specific examples are given of using hashtags on Twitter to study public discussions and map the structure of conversations. Challenges discussed include data access issues, research ethics concerns, and the need for researchers to have interdisciplinary skills in areas like computer science, design, writing and communication.
This document discusses digital methods and social media analytics. It begins by outlining the key steps in digital methods like data gathering, processing, analysis and representation. It then discusses the rise of big data and how computational social science is using large datasets. Specific examples are given of using hashtags on Twitter to study public discussions and map the structure of conversations. Challenges discussed include data access issues, research ethics concerns, and the need for researchers to have interdisciplinary skills in areas like computer science, design, writing and communication.
Building Spaces for Hyperlocal Citizen Journalism (AoIR 2008)Axel Bruns
This document discusses challenges facing citizen journalism and opportunities for "pro-am" collaborations between professional and amateur contributors. It describes the Australian election project "Youdecide2007" as an example of a successful hyperlocal citizen journalism initiative. The project attracted contributions from rural and regional areas by providing seed content and editorial oversight to encourage participation. Combining professional and citizen contributions can help attract new audiences and encourage participation.
Mapping Movements: Social movement research and big data: critiques and alter...Tim Highfield
Paper presented by Sky Croeser and Tim Highfield at Compromised Data? colloquium, Toronto, Canada, 29 October 2013. http://www.infoscapelab.ca/news/oct-28-29-colloquium-compromised-data-new-paradigms-social-media-theory-and-methods
[Tim's additional note: This presentation is focused specifically on doing research around social movements and producing findings and contributing new knowledge about how activists use social media and online technologies – there is some very important and detailed quantitative analysis of Twitter discussions around social movements and uprisings which provide critical information about communication online and responses to international events, and my intent is not to discount this work just because it is quant-only – these studies do different things and have different aims, and so the scope of their findings is not the same by extension (I’m not sure that I made this point clearly in the presentation, though).]
Infotainment and the Impact of Connective Action: The Case of #MilkedDryAxel Bruns
This document discusses the #MilkedDry campaign, which aimed to raise awareness of issues facing Australian dairy farmers. It analyzes the campaign through the lens of "connective action" and social media data. The analysis found some evidence of the campaign spreading awareness but little active engagement on Twitter specifically. While not a clear example of "connective action", the segment may have still raised public awareness through other means. Overall, the document examines the role and impact of infotainment and social media in facilitating political discussion and action.
The document discusses the use of social media and Web 2.0/3.0 technologies in scholarly communication. It notes that researchers are increasingly acting as both authors and readers due to new online tools. The document provides a brief overview of technologies like blogs, wikis, and social bookmarking/categorization. It suggests these tools could help researchers discover important information and help each other find what to read or not read. The document advocates experimenting with these technologies in scholarly contexts.
SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) is an ontology for describing social web data and linking between social sites to enable interoperability. It aims to address data silos by allowing social sites to share information through semantic descriptions of users, content, and connections. SIOC has been adopted by over 100 applications and used on hundreds of sites to provide RDF metadata and allow exporting/importing complete representations of social data.
This document discusses the political uses of social media in Australia. It notes that Facebook is widely used across demographic groups for maintaining local connections, while Twitter is used by more influential professionals for broader discussions through hashtags. Examples of hashtags that drove political discussions include #spill during a leadership challenge and #qldfloods during floods. The document advises politicians to use social media, especially Facebook and Twitter, to engage with voters and debates, but cautions that mistakes can spread widely and quickly online.
‘Big Social Data’ in Context: Connecting Social Media Data and Other SourcesAxel Bruns
This document discusses big social data research and outlines a research project on analyzing data from social media and other online sources to understand public opinion formation in Australia. It aims to develop new methods for integrating large datasets from Facebook, Twitter, news websites and search/browsing data. The project will examine how news and issues spread and change in prominence over time, and how online public discussion networks form and interact across platforms. Initial findings show identifiable networks and discussion trends for different news sources and topics on Twitter.
Social Media in Australia: The Case of TwitterAxel Bruns
Professor Axel Bruns at Queensland University of Technology leads research tracking social media use in Australia, particularly Twitter. His team has identified over 2.8 million active Australian Twitter accounts through 2013. They map these accounts' follower/followee networks and track hashtags, links shared, and other activities to understand how public discourse and information spread occurs online. Their goal is developing a comprehensive model of Australia's online public sphere through large-scale, data-driven analysis of social media over time.
From Geographic Location to Network Location: The Potential of Big Social DataAxel Bruns
This document discusses how geographic location data from social media like Twitter can be used to map social networks and infer user locations based on network connections rather than self-reported geotags. It presents analysis of a dataset of over 140,000 geolocated Australian Twitter users mapped by their stated locations, timezones and connections to show the structure of the "Australian Twittersphere". However, it also notes limitations of relying on Twitter's API policies for long-term research access to social media data.
New Approaches to Large-Scale Social Media Analytics: Investigating Twitter i...Axel Bruns
This document summarizes Professor Axel Bruns' research on analyzing large-scale social media data from Twitter in Australia. The research maps over 2.8 million identified Australian Twitter accounts and their follower/followee networks. It analyzes user engagement patterns around hashtags, news sites, and events. Tracking Australian Twitter activity over time provides a comprehensive dataset for understanding public discussions and responses to events in Australia.
Layers of Communication: Forms of Talk on TwitterAxel Bruns
The document discusses three layers of communication on Twitter: the macro level of hashtags (#hashtags), the meso level of follower networks, and the micro level of direct messages (@mentions). These layers interact and information can transition between them through retweets. Studying them individually provides only a limited understanding, as the layers intersect and public discussions on Twitter are interwoven with the wider media environment. More research is needed on how publics form and interact on Twitter, how communication patterns on Twitter relate to the broader society, and how to apply social media research methods beyond any single platform.
Twitter in Germany: A Big Data PerspectiveAxel Bruns
1) The document discusses research analyzing Twitter usage in Germany from a big data perspective. It identifies approximately 9.2 million unique German-language Twitter accounts and over 2.4 billion tweets posted between September 2013 and 2015.
2) Various statistics and patterns are analyzed regarding German Twitter users, including distributions by country, state, and city. Activity patterns like number of tweets posted per day are also examined.
3) The research aims to better understand factors driving Twitter adoption in Germany, map the German-language Twitter network, and analyze how information spreads. A collaborative news index of German tweets (DETNIX) tracing sharing of news links is also described.
Social Media in Times of Crisis: The Australian PerspectiveAxel Bruns
This document summarizes Associate Professor Axel Bruns' research on social media use during crises in Australia. It discusses two projects analyzing crisis communication - one focusing on the 2011 Queensland floods and another on detecting crisis events in social media. During the 2011 floods, the #qldfloods community rapidly organized online to share information. Emergency services also began adopting social media, though without clear strategies. The document outlines challenges in using social media for crisis information dissemination and discovery, such as identifying emerging events and evaluating information sources.
CCI Winter School Workshop on Digital Methods and Social Media AnalyticsJean Burgess
This document discusses digital methods and social media analytics. It begins by outlining the key steps in digital methods like data gathering, processing, analysis and representation. It then discusses the rise of big data and how computational social science is using large datasets. Specific examples are given of using hashtags on Twitter to study public discussions and map the structure of conversations. Challenges discussed include data access issues, research ethics concerns, and the need for researchers to have interdisciplinary skills in areas like computer science, design, writing and communication.
This document discusses digital methods and social media analytics. It begins by outlining the key steps in digital methods like data gathering, processing, analysis and representation. It then discusses the rise of big data and how computational social science is using large datasets. Specific examples are given of using hashtags on Twitter to study public discussions and map the structure of conversations. Challenges discussed include data access issues, research ethics concerns, and the need for researchers to have interdisciplinary skills in areas like computer science, design, writing and communication.
Building Spaces for Hyperlocal Citizen Journalism (AoIR 2008)Axel Bruns
This document discusses challenges facing citizen journalism and opportunities for "pro-am" collaborations between professional and amateur contributors. It describes the Australian election project "Youdecide2007" as an example of a successful hyperlocal citizen journalism initiative. The project attracted contributions from rural and regional areas by providing seed content and editorial oversight to encourage participation. Combining professional and citizen contributions can help attract new audiences and encourage participation.
Mapping Movements: Social movement research and big data: critiques and alter...Tim Highfield
Paper presented by Sky Croeser and Tim Highfield at Compromised Data? colloquium, Toronto, Canada, 29 October 2013. http://www.infoscapelab.ca/news/oct-28-29-colloquium-compromised-data-new-paradigms-social-media-theory-and-methods
[Tim's additional note: This presentation is focused specifically on doing research around social movements and producing findings and contributing new knowledge about how activists use social media and online technologies – there is some very important and detailed quantitative analysis of Twitter discussions around social movements and uprisings which provide critical information about communication online and responses to international events, and my intent is not to discount this work just because it is quant-only – these studies do different things and have different aims, and so the scope of their findings is not the same by extension (I’m not sure that I made this point clearly in the presentation, though).]
Infotainment and the Impact of Connective Action: The Case of #MilkedDryAxel Bruns
This document discusses the #MilkedDry campaign, which aimed to raise awareness of issues facing Australian dairy farmers. It analyzes the campaign through the lens of "connective action" and social media data. The analysis found some evidence of the campaign spreading awareness but little active engagement on Twitter specifically. While not a clear example of "connective action", the segment may have still raised public awareness through other means. Overall, the document examines the role and impact of infotainment and social media in facilitating political discussion and action.
The document discusses the use of social media and Web 2.0/3.0 technologies in scholarly communication. It notes that researchers are increasingly acting as both authors and readers due to new online tools. The document provides a brief overview of technologies like blogs, wikis, and social bookmarking/categorization. It suggests these tools could help researchers discover important information and help each other find what to read or not read. The document advocates experimenting with these technologies in scholarly contexts.
SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) is an ontology for describing social web data and linking between social sites to enable interoperability. It aims to address data silos by allowing social sites to share information through semantic descriptions of users, content, and connections. SIOC has been adopted by over 100 applications and used on hundreds of sites to provide RDF metadata and allow exporting/importing complete representations of social data.
Using narratives in enterprise gamification for sales, training, service and ...Centrical
How using enterprise gamification that is based on narratives - such as car racing, sports, team fantasy sports, song contests and more - helps communicate nuanced goals and drive lasting change in employee behavior.
Talk given at the Semantic Web SIKS course 2011: why we need semantics on the Social Web. Three examples: social tagging, user profiling based on Twitter streams and cross-system user profiling (linking user profiles).
This document contains two photo credits from Flickr under Creative Commons licenses. The first photo is credited to KIUI staff and the second to blakespot. Both photos are available for reuse under Creative Commons Attribution licenses.
Social Networks, Dominance And Interoperabilityblogzilla
This document discusses the dominance of social utilities like social networking sites and messaging clients due to strong network effects and high switching costs. It proposes that competition authorities should impose ex ante interoperability requirements on dominant social utilities to minimize barriers between vertically integrated platforms. Specifically, it recommends a combination of three models: must-carry obligations to enable one platform's apps on another, API disclosure requirements, and interconnect requirements between telcos to create real competition.
This document summarizes John Breslin's presentation on the social semantic web. It discusses how semantic web technologies like FOAF, SIOC, and OGP can help connect isolated social networks and allow users to easily move between sites while bringing their data. Standards like OpenID Connect aim to provide interoperability across social platforms. Emerging projects also seek to annotate social media content with semantics and bring the data into the linked open data cloud. The goal is a unified social semantic web where users have distributed identities and their profiles and content can easily cross between different social platforms.
Gamification involves applying game design elements to non-game applications and websites to make them more fun and engaging for users. Gamification can include rewarding users with points, badges, and levels for exploring a site and sharing it with friends. Captain Up is a tool that allows organizations to set up gamification systems on their websites to activate and reward users.
Predicting Discussions on the Social Semantic WebMatthew Rowe
This document discusses predicting discussions on social media platforms. It first notes the large amount of social data being published and then discusses how analysis of this data is currently limited. It proposes predicting which posts will start discussions ("seed posts") and how active those discussions will be. The document describes experiments using semantic features and ontologies to identify seed posts and predict discussion volume. Key findings include that user reputation, broadcast reach, and connections influence discussion likelihood and levels. The approach accurately predicts which posts will spark replies and how active discussions will be.
Global inspiration, local action #ili2014Jan Holmquist
Internet Librarian International, 2014 - London
Session A104 - Global inspiration, local action
The modern library supports learning on all levels. All types of library, in many different countries, face the same challenges, driven in many cases by technological developments or financial contraints. Despite having the same core issues, libraries come up with different answers, shaped by their differing cultures. By being globally inspired – and translating that inspiration into local action – libraries can transform their communities.
Effective Content Curation in Higher Edmeetcontent
The document discusses the needs and best practices for effective content curation in higher education. It identifies several key elements needed for effective curation, including establishing goals and understanding the audience, developing a listening and discovery framework, maintaining appropriate editorial sensibilities, ensuring content is relevant to the institutional brand, providing proper context, and cultivating an engaged community. It also discusses various tools that can be used for curation, such as Tumblr, Storify, Twitter, Facebook, and maintaining an institutional blog. The document emphasizes that curation should complement and inform original content creation.
Most information professionals already know: separation of content and presentation helps to manage and deliver complex information. This can only be done by using enriched structured content. Some call this intelligent content.
But why exactly is metadata per document (some call it "tagging") not enough?
Here is a very brief slide-deck, which explains the difference between the traditional approach and the graph-based approach to develop not only a metadata layer seperated from the content layer, but also a knowledge layer on top of it.
The document discusses how libraries are using gamification and gaming projects like LibraryGame and Game of Books to make libraries more fun and engaging for users. It provides examples of gaming and gamification initiatives libraries have implemented, such as creating hackerspaces, offering game development workshops, sponsoring drawing contests using Draw Something, and promoting collections through gaming. The document encourages attendees to share what gamification initiatives they are using in their own libraries.
Semantic Web and Web 3.0 - Web Technologies (1019888BNR)Beat Signer
The document discusses the vision of the Semantic Web and its key components:
- The Semantic Web aims to make data on the web machine-readable so machines can process and understand it.
- Key technologies include RDF, RDFS, and OWL which add structure and semantics to data through metadata.
- SPARQL is the query language used to extract and manipulate semantic data.
- Semantic frameworks like Jena and tools like Protégé help develop and work with semantic data.
How to pass a coding interview as an automation developer
Oct 17 2016
T.J. Maher has been a software tester for twenty years, but only recently became an automation developer. March 2015 he went from one job executing other people's automated testplans to writing his own.
When he found himself needing to start job searching over a year later due to a switch in management, he found major changes to the interview process. This presentation describes T.J. Maher's job hunt, those changes, and how he managed to find a new position ... Not just as an automation developer, but as a Software Engineer in Test.
Web 2.0 Patterns and Technologies - Web Technologies (1019888BNR)Beat Signer
The document discusses the emergence of Web 2.0 technologies and patterns. It introduces Web 2.0, which is characterized by user-generated content, data as a driving force, and collective intelligence through knowledge sharing. Key Web 2.0 technologies include wikis, blogs, folksonomies, social networking sites, and mashups. A prominent example is how AJAX enables asynchronous partial updates on webpages for richer interactive experiences.
Web Search and SEO - Web Technologies (1019888BNR)Beat Signer
This document contains lecture notes on web search technologies and search engine optimization. It discusses key concepts like search engine result pages, search engine history, information retrieval metrics, Boolean and vector space models, PageRank algorithm, and web crawler architecture. The notes provide details on how early search engines worked and how Google developed PageRank to improve search result relevance by considering both on-page and off-page factors.
The Emergence of Trending Topics: The Dissemination of Breaking Stories on T...Axel Bruns
This document summarizes research on the dissemination of Julia Gillard's 2012 misogyny speech on Twitter. The researchers analyzed over 270,000 tweets linking to an ABC news article about the speech in the first 75 hours. They found the network started flat with many individual shares but became more structured over time. It also shifted from Australian political journalists and commentators to international feminists as the theme broadened from a political spectacle to a feminist rallying cry. Influential accounts like @dawnhfoster acted as bridges to new networks as the story spread more widely on Twitter.
This presentation uses the Manufacturing Pasts project, funded by JISC, as an example of how research outputs can be shared with the world through a combination of institutionally-supplied web services, and social media.
Twitter for Academia (v2) provides an overview of how Twitter can be embedded within academic practice as well as considerations when creating an online profile, developing a tweeting tyle and
Using Twitter as a Postgraduate ResearcherSimon Bishop
This document provides guidance for doctoral researchers on using Twitter. It discusses what Twitter is, how hashtags can group conversations, and reasons to use social media like Twitter, such as engaging the public and staying up to date. It offers tips for using Twitter, like considering one's audience, branding, and not posting unpublished data. It provides examples of how Twitter can be used, such as crowdsourcing information, data mining tweets for research, facilitating policy discussions, and finding inspiration. Final links and resources are included.
1. Twitter can be used by academics to connect with colleagues, curate content, and promote their work.
2. The document provides guidance on setting up a Twitter profile, engaging in conversations, and strategies for using Twitter in teaching, research, and departments.
3. Effective Twitter use involves regularly tweeting relevant content, interacting with others, and expanding one's network over time through blogs, profiles, and growing followers.
Social media as an engagement, collection, and curriculum tool: Using YouTube...Allan Cho
The document discusses using YouTube as a platform for UBC Library's digital collections. It describes how the library moved from using ContentDM to manage webcast videos to using YouTube for improved accessibility and collection statistics. The library crowdsources transcription, annotation, and captioning of videos from students. This allows online students to study from video lectures while also building language skills. Social media creates challenges around metadata and copyright but provides opportunities for new collections, information literacy, and flexible teaching and learning models.
Building and maintaining your digital research profiletbirdcymru
Workshop shared with colleagues at School of Education Summer School, 27 June 2015. A digital research profile is what a researcher wants to share about herself and her work online, including some work which may be created online, and research which may be conducted online.
Archiving The Social Media Presence of The River-sideElaine Harrington
The document discusses archiving the social media presence of 'The Riverside' at University College Cork. It outlines challenges in preserving social media content like different platforms, copyright and privacy issues. It provides examples of other institutions archiving tweets, blogs and websites. The document advocates developing sustainable approaches to the evolving area of digital preservation and avoiding duplication of efforts.
Authors: Bouke Huurnink and Lotte Belice Baltussen.
In this talk we discuss some of the R&D work being done at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. We endeavour to answer the following questions: What does Sound and Vision do and what kind of collections do they safeguard? What kind of work is being done by their R&D department? What is the current status of multimedia annotation and multimedia retrieval in the archive? In addition we zoom in on the newly arising problem of contextualisation in the archive. How can we make the most of the relations between multiple collections that contain information about the same program, person, or topic? We conclude with a discussion of potential collaboration, and some questions that we would like to answer in future work.
Archives in an Online WorldCreating LSE Digital LibraryALISS
Ed Fay presented on creating an LSE Digital Library to make the library's collections accessible online. The digital library will contain both digitized historic materials like manuscripts and photographs as well as born-digital collections like research outputs, web archives, and digital archives. Fay discussed user experience design, licensing content openly through Creative Commons, integrating with third-party platforms, and establishing roles and responsibilities to develop the digital library over time through a phased approach requiring new infrastructure, staff skills, and prioritization. The digital library aims to preserve and provide access to digital collections on par with the strength of the library's physical holdings.
Manufacturing pasts: opening Britain's industrial past to new learners and ne...tbirdcymru
I presented this short paper at the ALT-C 2012 Conference on 11 September 2012 in Manchester, UK. This paper is an early report on the Manufacturing Pasts project http://www.le.ac.uk//manufacturingpasts
Manufacturing Pasts: Opening Britain's Industrial Past to New Learners and Ne...tbirdcymru
This presentation was given at the ALT-C Conference in Manchester, UK, on 11 September 2012. It describes the work of the Manufacturing Pasts project, which digitises and creates open learning materials on the topic of British industrial history.
Using Twitter as a Postgraduate ResearcherSimon Bishop
Second version of my talk. I tried to make it more focused and a better introduction. As ever, cute pictures need no explanation.
As for Up - try explaining the plot of it to someone who hasn't seen it... ridiculous, isn't it? There's no way to sell it that way, they have to see it. In the same way, to describe how Twitter works gives no indication as to its functionality. You have to play with it and learn by experience.
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1. The document discusses the University of British Columbia Library's use of YouTube as a digital collection platform for its webcast videos.
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This document proposes new methodologies for capturing and analyzing publicly available Twitter data. It discusses using tools like yourTwapperkeeper and Gawk to gather and process Twitter data at scale. Potential research questions are exploring how online publics form through hashtags and what structures emerge. Metrics for analyzing hashtags, timeframes, and users are presented. Challenges in working with big Twitter data at scale are also discussed.
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Paper by Daniel Angus, Stephen Harrington, Axel Bruns, Phoebe Matich, Nadia Jude, Edward Hurcombe, and Ashwin Nagappa, presented at the ICA 2024 conference, Gold Coast, 22 June 2024.
Identifying the Symptoms of Destructive PolarisationAxel Bruns
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Twitter as a First Draft of the Present – and the Challenges of Preserving It for the Future
1. TWITTER AS A FIRST DRAFT OF THE
PRESENT – AND THE CHALLENGES OF
PRESERVING IT FOR THE FUTURE
Prof. Axel Bruns Dr. Katrin Weller
Digital Media Research Centre Computational Social Science
Queensland University of Technology GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Brisbane, Australia Köln, Germany
a.bruns@qut.edu.au katrin.weller@gesis.org
@snurb_dot_info @kwelle
2. HISTORY IS WRITTEN…
• …by the winners
• …with the records that survive
• What will survive of our time?
– Print journalism?
– Audiovisual materials?
– Software?
– The Web?
Various Web archiving projects
• But what about social media?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebla_tablets
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lenkapeac/317979059
4. IS TWITTER HISTORY?
• What is Twitter?
– Journalism: “a first rough draft of history” (as journalists see it)
– Twitter: real-time, real-life observations by a diverse, global userbase
– Twitter: tweets, but also images, video, links to external content
Twitter is a first draft of the present
• But – significant fears for long-term preservation:
– Concerns over Twitter, Inc.’s commercial sustainability
– Data access commercialised and unaffordable at scale
– Account and content deletions threaten completeness
– Embedded third-party URLs, images, audio, video may disappear
We must get serious about preserving Twitter (and other social media)
6. WHAT IS LOST?
• Deleted tweets
• Audiovisual contents in
tweets: videos, images
• URLs and their contents
• Context information: user
names, meaning of hashtags
• Context: Interfaces, look & feel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182613360
7. WHERE TO FROM HERE?
• Archiving Twitter:
– Alternative options in addition to LoC are needed
– Archiving without Twitter, Inc.’s support feasible only for smaller subsets
• e.g. TrISMA project, Australian Research Council / National Library of Australia
– Full archive would require gaining/buying access to Twitter firehose: very costly
• Archiving Twitter, fully:
– Need to capture more than just tweets alone
– Content of shared URLs, embedded images, audio, video
– Background information on accounts, underlying structure of follower networks
– Twitter user experience: interface design, content presentation, etc.
All of this is increasingly urgent, as content is already disappearing…
8. @snurb_dot_info
@kwelle
Full paper: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/95296/
This research is funded by the Australian Research Council through Future Fellowship
and LIEF grants FT130100703 and LE140100148.
Part of this work was conducted as part of a Digital Studies Fellowship at the Library of
Congress’s John W. Kluge Center.
Editor's Notes
Timeline to date:
April 2010: Twitter, Inc.’s ‘gift’ of a full continuous archive announced; substantial media coverage praising Twitter’s philanthropy
January 2013: LoC blog update and whitepaper on the archive project
170b tweets ingested; 500m new tweets each day
400 inquiries from researchers; no access available as yet
November 2015: Politico says LoC project is “in limbo”