Cumulative and Comparative Social Media Analytics for Crisis Communication

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Paper presented at IR14: Association of Internet Researchers conference, Denver, October 2013.

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Cumulative and Comparative Social Media Analytics for Crisis CommunicationJean Burgess, Axel Bruns and Avijit Paul

ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation

Queensland University of Technology

a.bruns / je.burgess / a1.paul @ qut.edu.au

@snurb_dot_info / @jeanburgess / @cdtavijit

http://mappingonlinepublics.net/

EMERGENCE OF QUASI-STANDARD ANALYTICS

• Twitter data (#hashtag) + Twitter API + a variety of analytical tools:1. Patterns of activity volume within the temporal space of

an acute event;

2. Key actors and their levels of individual activity, as well as the extent to which they are referred to and retweeted;

3. Key themes, topics and inferred purposes (informed by qualitative analysis).

TOWARDS COMPARATIVE & CUMULATIVE APPROACHES

• Comparative work– Across different kinds of crisis events – Across different political, material, cultural contexts– Over time– e.g. #qldfloods and #eqnz, 2011-2013

• Cumulative analyses of similar events over time (how does the system evolve and learn?)

#QLDFLOOD(S) 2013: TWEETS PER DAY

#QLDFLOOD 2011: MOST ACTIVE USERS

#QLDFLOOD(S) 2013: MOST ACTIVE USERS

#QLDFLOODS 2011: MOST VISIBLE USERS

#QLDFLOOD(S) 2013: MOST VISIBLE USERS

#QLDFLOODS 2011: ACTIVITY PATTERN

#QLDFLOOD(S) 2013: ACTIVITY PATTERN

#EQNZ 2013: TWEETS PER DAY

#EQNZ 2011: MOST ACTIVE USERS

#EQNZ 2013: MOST ACTIVE USERS

#EQNZ 2011: MOST VISIBLE USERS

#EQNZ 2013: MOST VISIBLE USERS

#EQNZ 2011: USER ACTIVITY PATTERN

#EQNZ 2013: USER ACTIVITY PATTERN

CRISIS EVENT COMPARISON

● #qldfloods 2011

● #qldfloods 2013

● #eqnz 2011

● #eqnz 2013

#QLDFLOOD 2011: TOP CATEGORIES URLS

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