Diata12 opening: Twitter research in Düsseldorf

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DIATA12 2nd Düsseldorf Workshop on

Interdisciplinary Approaches

to Twitter Analysis

(#diata12)

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

March 21, 2012

Organized by Katrin Weller & Cornelius Puschmann and the researchers group

„science and the internet“

http://www.nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/de/diata12

#DIATA12 = pre-conference workshop of #DGI2012

http://tiny.cc/dgi2012-programme

DIATA12 – statistics

Participants from 6 countries

4 sessions + discussion

8 presentations

DIATA12 – topics

Background: Twitter research in Düsseldorf

Networks & structures Corporate and political

communication

Legal issues User engagement Archiving

DIATA12 – organisation

• Hashtag: #diata12

More Twitter stuff:

• Tutorial at #dgi2012 (Thursday, 13:30-15:00)

• Different presentations at #dgi2012

Background: Science and the Internet

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

#NFGWIN

6 projects

8 persons

5 disciplines

1 overall topic

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

Current activities

Guest lectures

Doctoral class

Courses for academic staff

Media trainings

1-3 August 2012, Düsseldorf

Conference: #cosci12

Scientific Twitter usage

Work across subprojects

Background: HHU-QUT Exchange

Metrics, Ethics,

and Soccer…

Background: HHU-QUT Exchange

Background: DIATA11

DIATA11: http://www.nfgwin.uni-duesseldorf.de/de/diata11

Slides online: http://tiny.cc/diata11-slides

Twitter research in Düsseldorf

Current topics

Twitter in academia Twitter for teaching Citations on Twitter

TEPCO Discourse analytics Soccer and Twitter

Twitter in Academia

AcademicTwitter 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

938 105

#mla09 #www2010

tweets

Are tweets dealing with the scientific topics of the conference? (RTs excluded)

keine Angabe Nein JaNot 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?

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

What is Highly Cited?

References to academic organizations

Top 50 users per category

1 private, individual

2 scientist

3 media

4 scientific institution

5 lobby, company

6 political

11 mpg

99 unclear

Users linking to Max Planck Gesellschaft

Ongoing project with Merja Mahrt , Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess

Soccer & Twitter (project QUT & HHU)

Twitterleague

Recent Work: Twitterleague

200000

400000

600000

800000

1000000

1200000

1400000

1600000

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

soccer team accounts ranked by followers

Distribution of followers in 3 soccer leagues (as of March 2012)

Bundesliga

Premier League

A-League

Twitterleague

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

14 15 16

German football clubs ranked by followers, 21.07.2011

Twitterleague

German football clubs ranked by followers, 19.03.2012

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

12 13 14 15 16 17 18

1 2 6 = = = 3

Jun 11 Jul 11 Aug 11 Sep 11 Oct 11 Nov 11 Dez 11 Jan 12 Feb 12 Mar 12

@fcbayern_news

@BayMuenchen

@BVBDortmund09,@BVB

@werderbremen

@fckoeln

@FCSchalke04, @s04

@VfLBorussia

@VfL_Wolfsburg

@Ichbin96,@hannover96

@1_fc_nuernberg

@HerthaBSC

@bayer04fussball

@Rote_Teufel

@sc_freiburg

@Hoffenheim

@1FSVMainz05

@FCAugsburg

Verified accounts

As of July 2011:

Now: Sept.

Guess who‘s missing…

Bayern München

Source: http://universal-code.de/2012/03/20/fc-bayern-stern-des-netzwerks/

Difficulties with accounts and user names

was @BVBDortmund09 now @BVB

was @Ichbin96 now @hannover96

@bayer04fussball vs. @BayerLeverkusen

@FCSchalke04 @s04

@Werder_Bremen @werderbremen

Schalke 04

FC Köln vs. BVB Dortmund

10.000

12.000

14.000

16.000

on 24.06.2011 on 21.07.2011 on 18.08.2011 on 13.09.2011

@BVBDortmund09

@fckoeln

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

Twitter supporting German soccer games

Soccer on Twitter

Tonight:

Borussia Mönchengladbach vs. Bayern München (#dfbpokal)

Prediction: 2:2

then Borussia wins after penalties

Other current projects

Timo van Treeck:

Learning environments on Twitter

• MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)

• #opco11 – Open Course „Zukunft des Lernens“, 2. May - 17. June

• Over 900 registered participants

• 3.550 Tweets von 362 Twitter users, period 20. May until 26. July

• Currently: #opco12

Interested? Meet Timo van Treeck during DGI2012 poster session.

Agnes Mainka:

Research corpus of tweets for testing discourse analytics methods:

• Is it possible to automatically extract dialogues from Twitter?

• Is there a typical time span for Twitter dialogues?

Development of a method to automatically detect discourses on Twitter

with corpus linguistics.

• How successful is part of speech tagging?

Interested? Agnes Mainka:

„Korpusbasierte Online-Dialoganalyse am Beispiel Twitter“

Session 11 at #dgi2012. Friday, March 23, 2012. 2.30 pm

Cornelius Puschmann:

Discourse cohesion in Twitter conversations in different

communities of interest

Ulrike Ezold

Tweeting during the crisis: How did the japanese energy company

TEPCO use twitter since the disaster on 11.03.2011?

Interested? Ulrike Ezold:

„Krisengezwitscher: Wie nutzt der japanische Energiekonzern TEPCO

Twitter während der Fukushima-Katastrophe? “

Poster Session at #dgi2012. Thursday, March 22, 2012., 3 pm.

DIATA12 – workshop discussion

Pirate pad: http://tiny.cc/diata12

Aim for this workshop

Discussion on:

What types of methods are used to obtain certain results?

• Collect approaches

• Collect measures, metrics

• Collect aims

What problems are experienced:

• With data collection

• With data preparation

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

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