University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

SoMe tools for social media research

Walker, Shawn; Hemsley, Jeff; Eckert, Josef; Mason, Robert M.; Nahon, Karine

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/42091

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Title
SoMe tools for social media research
Author(s)
  • Walker, Shawn
  • Hemsley, Jeff
  • Eckert, Josef
  • Mason, Robert M.
  • Nahon, Karine
Issue Date
2013-02
Keyword(s)
  • Social Media
  • Data Curation
  • Research
  • Big Data
  • digital curation and preservation
  • social computing
  • social and community informatics
  • quantitative data analysis
Abstract
The Social Media Lab at UW (SoMeLab.net) has been collecting tweets related to the Occupy Movement since October 2011. This poster presents the challenges, technical approach, and some results from the effort, which to date has collected over 80 million tweets. The SoMe Lab was recently awarded a $1 million NSF grant to develop an open source toolkit to make it feasible for non-technical researchers to conduct similar social media research.
Publisher
iSchools
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42091
DOI
https://doi.org/10.9776/13496
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Copyright © 2013 is held by the authors. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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