One Day in the Life of a National Twittersphere
Previous research into social media platforms has often focused on the exceptional: key moments in politics, sports or crisis communication. For Twitter, it has usually centred on hashtags or keywords. Routine and everyday social media practices remain underexamined as a result; the literature has o...
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| description | Previous research into social media platforms has often focused on the exceptional: key moments in politics, sports or crisis communication. For Twitter, it has usually centred on hashtags or keywords. Routine and everyday social media practices remain underexamined as a result; the literature has overrepresented the loudest voices: those users who contribute actively to popular hashtags. This article addresses this imbalance by exploring in depth the day-to-day patterns of activity within the Australian Twittersphere for a 24-hour period in March 2017. We focus especially on the previously less visible everyday social media practices that this shift in perspective reveals. This provides critical new insights into where, and how, to look for evidence of onlife traces in a systematic way. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-48082e7ee1bf4e32bfbceb8dffbc61692023-08-02T07:20:14ZengSciendoNordicom Review2001-51192019-06-0140s1113010.2478/nor-2019-0011One Day in the Life of a National TwittersphereBruns Axel0Moon Brenda1Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, AustraliaDigital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, AustraliaPrevious research into social media platforms has often focused on the exceptional: key moments in politics, sports or crisis communication. For Twitter, it has usually centred on hashtags or keywords. Routine and everyday social media practices remain underexamined as a result; the literature has overrepresented the loudest voices: those users who contribute actively to popular hashtags. This article addresses this imbalance by exploring in depth the day-to-day patterns of activity within the Australian Twittersphere for a 24-hour period in March 2017. We focus especially on the previously less visible everyday social media practices that this shift in perspective reveals. This provides critical new insights into where, and how, to look for evidence of onlife traces in a systematic way.https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-0011social mediatwitteraustralianetwork analysisphatic sharing |
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| title | One Day in the Life of a National Twittersphere |
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