Twitter Archiving Revisited: Preparing for the demise of Twapperkeeper
Twapperkeeper: Goodbye Tweet Archives? On the week of a supervision meeting that discussed my methods chapter write up and that returns me to my PhD thesis after 6 weeks away from it working on other things, it was drawn to my attention by several people that those twapperkeeper archives (that we couldn’t export and download anymore but could still access) were to be wiped ahead of its Hootsuite integration in Jan 2012. All those tweets, all that research that never was, compulsively collecting every mention of the #worldcup like I was actually going to bother sifting through them all at a …
Archiving Social Media Contexts: Article published in FUMSI
A few months I was approached by Joanna Ptolomey, the contributing editor for FUMSI USE magazine to contribute a guest article based on a previous blog post I wrote about social media archiving (just after the changes to Twitter’s API service regarding archiving.) The article was published last week (and it was strangely the first thing the corporate marketing department of my University have promoted of mine – I must be mellowing out…) An extract of the article is below – the rest can be rest on the FUMSI website. Introduction It’s always surprised me as a researcher that microblogging platform …
#PhDChat – thoughts on twitter methodologies (& an experiment in open, collaborative paper writing.)
This post carries over from Martin Eve’s and Andy Coverdale’s initial posts about the process of writing a joint paper about the phenomena of #phdchat; a weekly twitter chat for PhD students, which has been appearing since around October 2010. Both Martin and Andy have covered the overview of the chat, describing and asking questions about the use of the digital artefact (in this case, Twitter) in this context. It is implied (through participate observation) that the chat itself is a method in which to engage PhD students using social media often in an attempt to promote inclusion within a …