Twitter Over Time: Approaches to the dynamics of change in social media презентация

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Jean Burgess
Queensland University of Technology
@jeanburgess

Nancy Baym
Microsoft Research
@nancybaym

Christina VanMeter https://www.flickr.com/photos/cmphotography2010/

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‘consciously’ adopted by lead users
Adoption
Widespread adoption
Early 2007 official support (by hyperlinking)
Retention and controversy
May 2007    Replies page introduced to collect replies and mentions
@replying always controversial (‘Twitter isn’t a chat room’)
2008-2009: visibility of @replies to non-followers

think it’s kind of interesting looking at other people’s conversations, I guess.”

@reply

a reply. And for the most part almost all of my @ mentions are almost always replies to somebody else. I never start a conversation with @”

RT adopted as ‘official’ citation
Retention and controversy
2009 ‘Button’ retweets

just throw them in on that list if it seemed like-- if they were getting retweeted a bunch by people in my feed, saying things that I thought were cool, I’d just add them into that. So, that became my reading list. It just slowly was like accumulating more and more people. And some people on it kind of became people that were just taking up a lot of space and not saying a lot of useful stuff.”

the new thing. I didn't like that on my feed there was people I didn't know, like the pictures popping up, like "Who is that? Why are they in my feed?" And then I was thinking-- I don't know. I just really was against it, and then I slowly, slowly started-- it was just so easy, just don't have enough time to rewrite everything and copy-paste it. So I think here is where I actually started doing it, and recently sometimes a lot of my activity is just rote retweets. So I think by May it looks like I was comfortable using it.”

sometimes wonder when I tweet and it'll be either a retweet and I'll add something ahead of it or I'll modify it so I can say something-- sometimes I really have something to say, and other times it's just like "Ha. This is funny," and I'm like "Is that okay? I don't know if that's okay. Am I cheating? Am I stealing your social whatever?"

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Groups/vs ‘eavesdropping’
Adoption
Oct 2007 - Messina campaigns for #sandiegofire hashtag, Wired picks up the story
Third-party tools for ‘defining’, tracking
2008 platform, client support
Retention and controversy
Hashtags now part of the grammar of the web
2013 backlash from web dev community
2014 rumours that Twitter will phase out @reply and #hashtag

I came back and I stayed not physically co-present but very engaged on the hashtag.”

their content a lot on Twitter, and they meet once a year at this conference that I went to. So when I went to this conference, I used Twitter strategically to cement connections with people that I'd met. Because the one thing I tended to lack on Twitter is friends, and I thought if I meet people, in addition to being-- I could stay up to date with what they're doing professionally and things like that. Also it would be sort of like trading business cards.”

can’t travel to every conference that they would want to go to. But I also think there’s some etiquette that can probably use some agreeing. Like, if we could all agree on sort of the rules of live-tweeting, I think that would probably help.”

important
Need to document platforms as they are and as they change
Platforms ever-shifting contested terrains
Usefulness of combining multiple kinds of sources
Need to connect materiality of platform with user experiences and perspectives