DIATA11 Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary

Approaches to Twitter Analysis

(#diata11)

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

September 14 and 15, 2011

http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/diata11

DIATA11

Participants from 10 countries

5 sessions

14 presentations

14

DIATA11

Keynote: Mapping Online Publics

Metrics and Measurement

Politics and eParticipation

Scholarship and Journalism

Semantics and Sentiment

Communities and Conversations

DIATA11

Organisation

• Talks cancelled:

– Lorna Richardson about “Public Archaeology and Twitter – Widening

the Debate in 140 Characters or Less”

– Christopher Mascaro about “Uncovering Subgroups Among the

Masses”

• Piratepad:http://piratepad.net/ep/pad/view/ro.VNsL5lTCUCy/latest

• Piratepad from Coding Session:

http://piratepad.net/ep/pad/view/ro.gW4QsVx9XYM/latest

• Hashtag: #diata11

DIATA11

Tonight: Dinner at Füchschen Brewery

http://www.fuechschen.de/

Background: Science and the Internet

http://nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/en/node

#NFGWIN

6 projects

8 persons

5 disciplines

1 overall topic

Background: Science and the Internet

The projects

Digital genres of publication

Educational beliefs Law and scientific

internet usage

Change of the “Publication” concept

Citations in Web 2.0 3D environments

Background: Science and the Internet

Current activities

Guest lectures

Doctoral class

Courses for academic staff

Media trainings

August 2012, Düsseldorf

Conference

Scientific Twitter usage

Work across subprojects

Background: HHU-QUT Exchange

Background: HHU-QUT Exchange

2 Twitter Workshops in Brisbane, June 2011

The World According to Twitter

http://www.mappingonlinepublics.net/2011/07/27/looking-back-at-the-world-

according-to-twitter/#more-747

Making Sense of Twitter: Quantitative Analysis Using

Twapperkeeper and Other Tools

http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/program/workshops/workshop-c/

Metrics, Ethics,

and Soccer…

Background: HHU-QUT Exchange

Recent Work: Scientific Twitter Usage

Weller, K., & Puschmann, P. (2011). Twitter for Scientific Communication: How Can Citations/References be Identified and

Measured? In Proceedings of the Poster Session at the Web Science Conference 2011, Koblenz, Germany. View the

poster online: http://www.slideshare.net/katrinweller/twitter-for-scientific-communication

Retweet-Networks over Time

Data from Digital Humanities Conference 2010 (7-10 July 2010), Source:: Puschmann, C., Weller, K., & Dröge, E. (2011). Studying Twitter

conversations as (dynamic) graphs: visualization and structural comparison. Presented at General Online Research, 14-16 March 2011,

Düsseldorf, Germany. Retrieved from http://ynada.com/posters/gor11.pdf.

Tweet Contents

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keine Angabe Nein Ja

Not available No Yes

#mla09 #www2010

Dröge, E., Maghferat, P., Puschmann, C., Verbina, J., & Weller, K. (2011). Konferenz-Tweets. Ein Ansatz zur Analyse der Twitter-

Kommunikation bei wisseschaftlichen Konferenzen. http://bit.ly/qKQ2Nd

“Citations” on Twitter?

What is Highly Cited?

Recent Work: Twitterleague

21. June 2011

FC Köln vs. BVB Dortmund

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2.000

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on 24.06.2011 on 21.07.2011 on 18.08.2011 on 13.09.2011

@BVBDortmund09

@fckoeln

1.34

1.31

1.21

1.15

1.13

1.19

Number of followers.

FC Köln vs. BVB Dortmund

Average number of tweets per user (and per day) that mention a certain football team‘s account

Köln vs. Dortmund

„Dear Gunners“ „Lieber Herr Solbakken“

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuimbkioYt0 http://www.fc-

koeln.de/news/club/detailansicht/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=

3849&cHash=5ec860877888e1f1ceb77e74e9a820fa

Welcome to Düsseldorf!

Dr. Katrin Weller Dr. Cornelius Puschmann Dept. of Information Science Dept. of English Language and Linguistics

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

Universitätsstr. 1, Geb. 23.21.04.68, Universitätsstr. 1, Geb. 23.11.01.21

D-40225 Düsseldorf D-40225 Düsseldorf

E-Mail: weller@uni-duesseldorf.de E-Mail: cornelius.puschmann@uni-

duesseldorf.de

Twitter: @kwelle Twitter: @coffee001