Representations of Governmental Websites on Social Media

Marije Rooze, Burak Doğu

Research Question

The aim of this project is to find an answer to how social media connects to the information provided by the governmental initiative online.

In particular, we are interested in observing the governmental representations that are shared through the social media.

Method

•URLs from the of the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and NLM (National Library of Medicine) websites which are thought to be reliable were extracted. •Then the URLs were put to Issuecrawler to generate a map of the websites connected to the case study. In this phase, various settings were used for the Issuecrawler in order to get the most useful map. •Using the Issuecrawler, the startingpoints and network URLs were retrieved. •Backtype Stats tool was used to find out the number of tweets made via the URLs. •URL Linter tool was used to get the 'like' counts. •Finally, using Adobe Illustrator the collected data were merged with the map provided by the Issuecrawler.

Itirations: 1Crawl depth: 3

Map generated by the Issuecrawler

Map with the number of tweets and ‘like’s

Findings

Centers for Disease Control and PreventionU.S. Food and Drug AdministrationU.S. National Park ServiceNational Weather Service (National Hurricane Center)Red Cross