Presentation at "Researching Social Media Conference" #rsmconf13, Sheffield, UK, Nov. 4th 2013. http://researchingsocialmediaconference.wordpress.com/

1. THE
PLEASURES
AND
PERILS
of Studying
Twitter
Katrin Weller
#rsmconf13 Researching Social Media Conference, Nov. 4th 2013, Sheffield

2. Background

3. Personal background
#diata11
#diata12
#hiddendataproject
@twitsocbook
#gesisworkshops

4. Twitter research on the rise
SCOPUS search: TITLE(twitter) AND PUBYEAR > 2005, 22.08.2013.

5. Twitter vs. Facebook
Scopus (TITLE-ABS-KEY(Twitter) AND PUBYEAR > 2006)
(TITLE-ABS-KEY(Facebook) AND PUBYEAR > 2006)

6. 10 pleasures and perils

7. #1
de-banalizing Twitter
Richard Rogers:
Foreword. In:
Twitter and
Society, 2013

9. #2
rich content, simple
structure

10. #3
Simple structure? Theories?

12. #4
API
data access

13. #5
API
data access

14. #6
data haves, data have-nots
boyd, danah and Kate
Crawford. (2012).
“Critical Questions for
Big Data”

15. #7
Who‘s on Twitter?

16. Local Following

17. #8
Ethics?

18. #9
Methods and standards?

19. #10
No explicit methods and
standards

20. Outlook

21. Forgotten features?
images, favorites

22. Cross-platform studies
•
multi-method approaches
•
interdisciplinary work

23. Longitudinal studies
•
comparisons

24. Shared datasets?
•
Historical perspectives

25. Exciting work ahead!

26. THANK YOU!
Katrin Weller
@kwelle
katrin.weller@gesis.org
http://katrinweller.net
www.gesis.org/en
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