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Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has evolved from a niche service to a mass phenomenon; it has become instrumental for everyday communication as well as for political debates, crisis communication, marketing, and cultural participation. But the basic idea behind it has stayed the same: users may po...
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| Group Author: | ; ; ; ; |
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| Published: |
Peter Lang,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Digital formations ;
vol. 89 |
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| Summary: |
Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has evolved from a niche service to a mass phenomenon; it has become instrumental for everyday communication as well as for political debates, crisis communication, marketing, and cultural participation. But the basic idea behind it has stayed the same: users may post short messages (tweets) of up to 140 characters and follow the updates posted by other users. Drawing on the experience of leading international Twitter researchers from a variety of disciplines and contexts, this is the first book to document the various notions and concepts of Twitter communi |
| Carrier Form: | xxxviii, 447 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781433121692 (paperback) : 1433121697 (paperback) 9781433121708 (hardcover) 1433121700 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | HM743 |
| CLC: |
TP393.092 C912 |
| Call Number: | C912/T974 |
| Contents: | Foreword: Debanalising Twitter: the transformation of an object of study -- Twitter and society: an introduction -- pt. I, Concepts and methods : -- Concepts : -- Twitter and the rise of personal politics -- Structural layers of communication on Twitter -- Structure of Twitter: social and technical -- The politics of Twitter data ; -- Methods : -- Data collection on Twitter -- Metrics for understanding communication on Twitter -- Sentiment analysis and time series with Twitter -- Computer-assisted content analysis of Twitter data -- Ethnographic and qualitative research on Twitter -- Legal q |