1. 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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6. acute events
: JohanBerglund
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’
7. Event-driven research
‘peakiness’ and
‘burstiness’
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
Flickr: gabrielaP93 September 2011.
17. 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.
temporally distinct (in comparison to topics, issues or sequential events)Through hashtags: bring new publics into being
computational methods [post-hoc hashtag/keyword tracking]patterns over time, actors, relationships, themes increasing attention to dynamics of communication eg‘peakiness’ and ‘burstiness’ (refs)