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 …
Presentation at the International Olympic Academy: Harnessing the Twitter Olympics
If you’ve been following on twitter, you’ll know that I’ve been studying at the postgraduate session at the International Olympic Academy in Greece (near Ancient Olympia) since the start of September. Each week is based on a core set of themes (ancient history, sports management and sociology etc), with rotating visiting professors from differing background and related participant presentations (that were used to apply for the academy). This week, during philosophy and ethics week, I delivered my own paper on the twitter olympics, looking at the use of new media from Vancouver to London (but touching more on protest, resistance …
#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 …