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Social Media Data: Twitter Scraping on
NeCTARJonathon Hutchinson, Jeremy Hammond, Fiona
Martin, Daniel Yazbek
Digital Humanities Conference, University of Sydney - June 2015
Why Research Social Media?
• Ephemeral, temporary, banal content
• Duality of hyperbole in social media (use vs. used)
• Economics: large user base but no profit model (Twitter especially)
• But… Everyone’s doing it, which prompts us to research
@dhutchman
What are the challenges?
• Ephemeral
• Negotiating public/private/intimate boundaries
• Individual + collective ethics, distributed responsibility
• Ethics
• Access/representative of users/populations
• Skills - researcher skills also
• Policy and law
@dhutchman
Opportunities…• New perspectives/methodologies
• New research questions
• Access to newly found communities
• Immediacy
• All media are social, but social media transverses all of them
• Advance skills as a researcher and as students
@dhutchman
Our interests…
• Identify actors, agency and roles
• Map networks and identify communicative patterns
• Explore how agency impacts a networked society (challenging dominant discourses)
• Establish how networked communication intersects with institutions/organisations
• Identify emerging social network mediated trends/habits
• Investigate aspects of policy & governance
@dhutchman
Digital ResearchHypothesis
“Conduct Research”
Communicate
“Stuff” goes in
Knowledge comes out
@jeremy5211
Digital Research
NCRIS, see
education.gov.au/national-collaborative-research-infrastructure-strategy-ncris
$2.5 billion (since 2004)
Digital ResearchHypothesis
“Conduct Research”
Communicate
“Stuff” goes in
Knowledge comes out
@jeremy5211
1. Define data set2. Collect data3. Analyse data4. Test hypothesis5. Hypothesis evolution6. Repeat 1-5
ResearchHypothesis
“Conduct Research”
Communicate
@jeremy5211
1. Define data set twitter data on #dh2015
2. Collect data launchpod.intersect.org.au
launchpod.intersect.org.au
nectar.org.au/research-cloud
apps.twitter.com
Example Outputhttp://146.118.96.19/1/http://146.118.96.19/logs/log.log
@jeremy5211
Digital Research
MECO and Launchpod• Mobile Media - http://www.mobileinternetresearch.net/
• ABC #7DaysLater (Hutchinson, 2015)
• Online Journalism (O’Donnell & Hutchinson, 2015)
• #OurABC, #OurSBS (Martin, forthcoming)
• #KoinUntuk (Goggin, Hutchinson, Hammond, Goodwin, forthcoming)
• NSW #Playsafe (Goodwin & Hutchinson, forthcoming)
• #SydneySeige (Sinpeng & Hutchinson, forthcoming)
• Interests developing in #ISIS, #DoubleJ, #HeavyMetal, #China
• Basis for the Digital Methods Research Working Group, ANZCA
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