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Analysing User Generated Content for social science. Generational “we sense” in the Italian blogosphere
1. Analysing User
Generated Content
for social science
Generational “we sense” in the Italian blogosphere
Fabio Giglietto* - Luca Rossi - Giovani Boccia Artieri
LaRiCA / University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”
media&generation
8th International Conference on Sociocybernetics
COMPLEX SOCIAL SYSTEMS, INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND WORLD FUTURES
PRIN - National Research Project
Ciudad de México , MÉXICO, 23-27 June, 2008
2. wesearch/scenario
Growing availability of
User Generated Content:
persistence/
easy to search/
addressed to an unknowable audience/
easy to replicate/
(boyd 2007)
media&generation
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3. wesearch/theoretical background
persistence invisible audiences replicability searchability
few Writings Printing press, newspapers Digital media World Wide
(pc, video- Web + Google
cameras)
many Writings World Wide Web + Blogs, Digital media World Wide
Flickr, YouTube (pc, video- Web + Google
cameras)
media&generation
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PRIN - National Research Project
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4. wesearch/methodology
Keywords Identification
Through 5 focus groups we’ve
identified 45 media products
to be used as keywords to
investigate online discourses
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5. wesearch/methodology
Query strings definition
a) Avoid unwanted responses (spam)
b) Obtain the full text of every blog
entry (yahoo pipes)
c) choose between chronological or “by
relevance” output
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8th International Conference on Sociocybernetics
COMPLEX SOCIAL SYSTEMS, INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND WORLD FUTURES
PRIN - National Research Project
Ciudad de México , MÉXICO, 23-27 June, 2008
6. wesearch/methodology
Storage of blog entries and retrieval of authors’
information
a) Incremental storage of RSS entries
b) Scraping of authors’ information
supported platforms:
Blogger ITA / ENG
Flickr ENG
Il Cannocchiale ENG
Libero ITA
Splinder ITA
Windows Live Space ENG
YouTube ENG
media&generation
8th International Conference on Sociocybernetics
COMPLEX SOCIAL SYSTEMS, INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND WORLD FUTURES
PRIN - National Research Project
Ciudad de México , MÉXICO, 23-27 June, 2008
7. wesearch/methodology
Content analysis of collected data
starting set of keyword: 45
retrieved blogs entries: 3000
cases with authors’ data: 928
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Ciudad de México , MÉXICO, 23-27 June, 2008
8. media&generation/research
May specific media products get
user generated generational
discourses started?
Is it possible to use ugc to
observe the emergence of the
generational discourse?
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Ciudad de México , MÉXICO, 23-27 June, 2008
9. media&generation/conclusions
Media products are anchors
for personal memories which
can be used in an individual
or a generational way.
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10. media&generation/conclusions
“I chose to start the nursery class.
My nursery-syndrome and the fact that I
watched Candy Candy when I was a child,
made me choose this university degree ”
(F. female 25 years old)
media&generation
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11. media&generation/conclusions
“And we who are in the age of 30’s, we
belong to the Tiger Mask generation, we
can’t change it […] We had good times,
watching cartoons and TV series that left
their mark. ”
(A. male 32 years old)
media&generation
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12. media&generation/limits&possibilities
- average age of online content producers
- accuracy of published data
- automatically updated online profiles
- need of a more accurate filter technology
- privacy issue
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13. media&generation/limits&possibilities
- users share their personal data online
- qualitative analysis of large quantity of data
- spontaneous data
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14. http://mediageneration.wordpress.com
fabio.giglietto@uniurb.it*
luca.rossi@uniurb.it
giovanni.bocciaartieri@uniurb.it
http://www.soc.uniurb.it/larica
media&generation
8th International Conference on Sociocybernetics
COMPLEX SOCIAL SYSTEMS, INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND WORLD FUTURES
PRIN - National Research Project
Ciudad de México , MÉXICO, 23-27 June, 2008