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Twitter 201: Twitter & Social Movements
Washington University in St. Louis Libraries, April 26, 2012Jaleh Fazelian &Makiba Foster
Twitter and Social Movements
• Twitter Lingo• History• Being mobile• Censorship• Using #hashtags• Power of the RT• Questions
Twitter Lingo
• ReTweeting
• Hashtag
#IranElection
Green Protest / Javad Saharban/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
#IranElection
A Match Made in Heaven
Twitter for Android / yum9me / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Twitter Meeting @ Lowlands / Anne Helmond / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
What do these countries have in common?
• China – Full Twitter Ban
• Britain – Riots in 2011
• Iran – #IranElection
• Egypt – #Jan25
• South Korea – North Korean Twitter Account
Censorship
Twitter Pack / Carrot Creative / CC BY 2.0
Sina Weibo
Harnessing the Power of Twitter with# Hashtags #
Photo Credit: Christopher Lazo
Variations of #
#SocialMovements on Twitter
• Community• Awareness• Organization
Revolution & ReTweets (RT)
# × RT = Trending Topic
Twitter Year In ReviewHashtags of 2011
• #egypt• #tigerblood• #threewordstoliveby• #idontunderstandwhy• #japan• #improudtosay• #superbowl• #jan25
Trending World News 2011• Mubarak’s resignation• Raid on Osama bin Laden• Japanese earthquake and Fukushima
nuclear disaster• Shooting of Gabrielle Giffords• Gaddafi’s death• Swine Flu outbreak
Most ReTweeted 2010
1. Gulf Oil Spill 2. Haiti Earthquake 3. Pakistan Floods 4. Koreas Conflict 5. Chilean Miners Rescue 6. Chavez Tas Ponchao 7. Wikileaks Cablegate 8. Hurricane Earl 9. Prince Williams Engagement10. World Aids Day
Questions / Tim O'Brien / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Works Cited• Al-Rasheed, Madawi. “Sectarianism as Counter-Revolution: Saudi Arabian Responses to the Arab Spring.”
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, v. 11, no. 3, 2011.• Ding, Ling. “Micro-blogging in network society.” Journal of Digital and Research Publishing. http://
6pmjournal.blogspot.com/2011/02/micro-blogging-in-network-society.html Accessed 3/30/2012. • Furman, Henry “The Hashtag: A Case Study”. http://
wirescrossedblog.tumblr.com/post/15567326293/the-hashtag-acasestudy Accessed April 10, 2012• Golkar, Saeid. “Liberation or Suppression Technologies? The Internet, the Green Movement, and the
Regime in Iran.” International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society, v. 9, no. 1, 2011. • Key Global Telecom Indicators for the World Telecommunication Service Sector in 2011 (http://
mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats#subscribers). Accessed April 10, 2012.• Mobile Statistics, Stats and Facts 2011. (
http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/2011-mobile-statistics-stats-facts-marketing-infographic/). Accessed April 10, 2012.
• Parr, Ben. “Mindblowing #IranElection stats: 221,744 Tweets per Hour at Peak.” Mashable. http://mashable.com/2009/06/17/iranelection-crisis-numbers/ Accessed April 19, 2012.
• Starbird, Kate K. "(how) Will the Revolution be Retweeted? Information Diffusion and the 2011 Egyptian Uprising.” Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work - CSCW '12. http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~palen/StarbirdPalen_RevolutionRetweeted.pdf Accessed April 23, 2012
• Wasserman, Todd. “The Architect of #OccupyWallStreet Praises the Power of ‘Magical Hashtags’.” Mashable. http://mashable.com/2011/10/27/occupy-wall-street-adbusters/. Accessed April 10, 2012
Contact
• Jaleh Fazelian– @jalehf– [email protected]
• Makiba Foster– @makibaj– [email protected]
• http://libguides.wustl.edu/twitter201 • @WUSTLlibraries