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Beyond the dependencies of altmetrics: conceptualizing ‘heterogeneous couplings’ between social media and science
Rodrigo Costas, Sarah de Rijcke &
Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS-Leiden University)
26th September 2017
Toronto
@RodrigoCostas1
Noortje Marres
Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (University of Warwick)
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Introduction
• Altmetrics/social media metrics: networked nature
• Less explored
• Examples include: – ‘Communities of attention’ (Haustein, Bowman & Costas, 2015)
– Follower/followee relations (Robinson-Garcia, van Leeuwen & Rafols, 2015)
– Co-readership (Kaker et al, 2015; Didegah & Thelwall, 2016)
– Readership coupling (Haunschild & Bornmann, 2015)
• A general conceptualization/modelling of network interactions still missing
• Systematic discussion!
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Let’s take a look in bibliometrics
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Bibliographic coupling Co-citation
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Heterogeneous couplings
• Similar network relations for most social media metrics
• Diverse/heterogeneous nature of social media actors and events
• Heterogeneous couplings: co-occurrence of linkages based on social media environments with scholarly objects
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Example, Twitter Constitutive elements
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These elements can be combined, allowing different types of couplings
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Twitter coupling
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Bibliographic coupling
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Other couplings
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Co-Twitter-ation
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Co-citation
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Other co-occurrence couplings
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Beyond dependencies: generalizing heterogeneous couplings
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Recorded social media activity related to a scholarly object
social media entity interacting with a scholarly object
Forms of interactions, usually through social media affordances
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Generalization
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Practical examples – Tweeter coupling
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Co-tweeter-ation
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Questions? Suggestions?
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