Acute Events in Social Media
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ACUTE EVENTS IN SOCIAL MEDIA JEAN BURGESS | @jeanburgess QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY KATE CRAWFORD | @katecrawford UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES & INNOVATION
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Presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Seattle, October 2011.
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ACUTE EVENTS IN SOCIAL MEDIA
JEAN BURGESS | @jeanburgessQUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
KATE CRAWFORD | @katecrawfordUNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES & INNOVATION
acute events
Common dynamics: sharp peaks, high volume and intensity
Highly mediated, involving multiple actors/interests
In twitter, often coordinated around particular #hashtags
Produce controversies & ‘adjunctive conversations’
Flickr: JohanBerglund
Andreas Jungherr and Pascal Jürgens (2011) ‘A map drawn in sand: Twitter data and the structure of political campaigns’. Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis (DIATA11), Düsseldorf, Germany on 14-15 September 2011.
Event-driven research
‘peakiness’ and ‘burstiness’
Flickr: gabrielaP93
#ausvotes (2August. 2011)
#royalwedding (29 Apr. 2011)
Crises
• Unplanned/unforeseen acute events• High stakes, multiple interests, adverse
impacts• Disruptive/productive effects on systems
Flickr: Daveybot
#qldfloods
Flickr: Jono Haysom
#eqnz
Flickr: NZ Defence Force
#spill
New epistemologies?
Boyd, danah & Kate Crawford, ‘Six Provocations for Big Data’, A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, September 2011.
Time and accessibility
Flickr: teachernz
Need for mixed methods
Flickr: Lightmash
Ethics of access
New digital divides
