TweetCoding is a tool for simple coding of tweets. It displays 5 tweets per page using Twitter’s tweet embedding to display each tweet as it looks on the Twitter website on a local web page. It needs internet access to get the tweets from Twitter, but all coding data is stored on your computer, not the internet.
Tweet Coding Screen The page has form elements for coding each tweet as yes/no/not coded and a comment field for notes.
Recently, automated communication on social media has seen increased attention. Social bots, social media accounts controlled by algorithms that mimic human behaviour, have been found to attempt to influence users in several political contexts. …
Work in progress paper presented at Social Media & Society 2018 in Copenhagen today. Developed in collaboration with my QUT DMRC colleagues; Axel Bruns, Felix Münch, Patrik Wikström and our friends at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany; Stefan Stieglitz, Florian Brachten, Björn Ross
Paper is now available in the conference proceedings
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Axel Bruns live blog of my talk From Snurblog - liveblog at AOIR2017:
The next speaker in this AoIR 2017 is my DMRC colleague Brenda Moon, whose focus is on reply chains on Twitter. There are a number of ways in which replies are chained together, and in fact the term ‘reply tree’ may be preferable to ‘reply chains’: there may be many replies to the same original tweet only, or a long dyadic interaction over a series of tweets, or various permutations between these two extremes.
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