{"id":36,"date":"2012-02-10T18:57:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T18:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2012-02-10T18:57:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T18:57:31","slug":"tweeting-revolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/2012\/02\/10\/tweeting-revolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweeting Revolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I read “The Revolutions\u00a0Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions<\/a>” which is a study lead by\u00a0Gilad Lotan<\/a>, the head of R&D of SocialFlow. The study tracked who was blogging about the revolutions in\u00a0Tunisian\u00a0and\u00a0Egyptian\u00a0by\u00a0filtering\u00a0tweets sent with certain periods of time by key words relating to the revolution. The Tweets were then sorted into flows; a flow is when a tweet is re-posted by another user. The longest 10% of flows where kept and 1\/6 of those tweets where randomly chosen, creating the data set. The study then looked at who had published each tweet, where the source was and who re-posted that tweet. The results are rather interesting.\u00a0Journalist tweeters tend to re-post each other’s comments. The ‘other’\u00a0category\u00a0of users (users of\u00a0indeterminable\u00a0goal\/source) where the most common tweeters about both revolutions, with bloggers close behind.<\/p>\n

This idea of creating revolution through services such as media is an interesting idea to me. It creates a interesting dynamic between traditional journalists and ‘amateur\u00a0mobile media journalists’, which was mentioned in the study. The two groups will be\u00a0contesting\u00a0for attention from readers, and may create issues for\u00a0creditably\u00a0in the future. On the plus side, such mobile media and networked revolutions becomes much harder for\u00a0governments\u00a0to clamp down on information about revolutions spreading. Even with new found ability to support and share information about revolutions, there is a down side. If a\u00a0government\u00a0had the right tools, they could use the tweets to track down dissidents. Incorrect information could be spread with out going through the\u00a0confirmation\u00a0process regular journalism does. Even with these downsides, I have a feeling the democratic process and revolution process of the future will depend much more heavily upon such sites and mobile technology. We just need to make sure we can still do both without it as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I read “The Revolutions\u00a0Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions” which is a study lead by\u00a0Gilad Lotan, the head of R&D of SocialFlow. The study tracked who was blogging about the revolutions in\u00a0Tunisian\u00a0and\u00a0Egyptian\u00a0by\u00a0filtering\u00a0tweets sent with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":4,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"sfetter","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/author\/sfetter\/"},"qubely_comment":4,"qubely_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Today I read “The Revolutions\u00a0Were Tweeted: Information Flows During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions” which is a study lead by\u00a0Gilad Lotan, the head of R&D of SocialFlow. The study tracked who was blogging about the revolutions in\u00a0Tunisian\u00a0and\u00a0Egyptian\u00a0by\u00a0filtering\u00a0tweets sent with … Continue reading →","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/thefetterblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}