Recentemente nella social sfera italiana è scoppiato un gran interesse attorno a Twitter (qui, qui e altrove). Ora, si dice, è diventato di massa. Ora che abbiamo le tweet star, che ne ha parlato il TG1 e che Riccardo Luna ne ha scritto su Repubblica Twitter è stato definitivamente sdoganato ed è entrato nella nostra [...]
Categories: Research
Yesterday I was at the MediaMutation3 conference with Agnese Vellar. We presented a talk about the study of Glee audience and fandom on YouTube . The research (see the slides blow) addressed a couple of interesting research questions for contemporary fan studies and audience studies. We were interested in understanding if (and with what kind [...]
Categories: Research,University
Few days ago Axle Burns and the people from “Mapping online publics” posted a very interesting article about mapping the Australian election following #ausvote tweets. The idea behind that was rather good and simple: by mapping all the messages containing the conventional reply symbol (@username) one could map the conversational network surrounding a specific topic (defined by the #hashtag). Of course this methods has some limitations (clearly explained by Axle), nevertheless it can be use to produce a rough map of the conversational network.
Since some time ago we’ve downloaded (using Twapperkeeper – the same service used by Axel) all the tweets with the hashtag #ukge2010 (the “official” hashtag about Uk general elections) we have decided to do the same analysis on Uk tweets.
Categories: Research,SIGSNA project