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Visualising Twitter Networks: John Terry Captaincy Controversy
Introduction After our recent CAST Lab session ‘Web hacks and visualisations’ with Tony Hirst, on the use of Google, Twitter and Yahoo Pipes APIs and Gephi to scrape and visualise social networks, I...
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Mapping Twitter Abuse and Recursive Abstraction: Can We Accurately Map Who...
Introduction In week 14 of our CAST London Sandbox sessions, we learnt about visualising networks through mapping software such as Openstreetmap, TileMill and Mapbox – as a result I was inspired to use...
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Surveying Social Network Abuse and An Exercise in Using Smartphone Apps to...
Introduction A busy month on my MSc Digital Sociology course has seen me learn a whole host of new things, from mapping the prevalence of spam and abuse across small social networks using digitally...
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#ididnotreport: Life of a Twitter Meme across social network platforms
Introduction In a bit of a digression from studying people abusing each other on Twitter, after I witnessed the progression of a particular hasthtag that was instead about how people are...
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HTML5 Audio/Visualisation: Liam Stacey jailed for Muamba Tweets
Introduction In one of a final sessions last term, we had a CAST London lab session based around the dynamic use of HTML5 as a visualisation tool. One of the key things learned in this session was how...
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Twacism and Twacists: From coinage to abuse
Introduction On 27th March 2012, The Guardian published an article called “Twitter: Twitter racism: how the law is taking on the ‘Twacists’”, which discussed the growing rise of racist abuse towards...
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Rape Culture and Twitter Abuse: Visualising Twitter’s reaction to the Ched...
Introduction and Discussion On Friday 20th April 2012, Sheffield United striker Ched Evans was jailed for five years on Friday for raping a 19-year-old woman at a hotel near Rhyl, Wales. An extract...
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Canvas Timeline: Hunger Games Twitter Abuse
Introduction The film adaption of the popular book “Hunger Games” premiered in the US in March 2012, and later on in the UK. I had seen the trailer and press promotion for this movie, and was mildly...
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Scraping Twitter for abusive tweets and Twitter Abused, a Video Narrative
1) Scraping Twitter for abusive tweets Introduction As a result of an interesting CAST London lab session on the use of Python and advanced Twitter API search techniques to scrape Twitter for tweets...
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