Dynamic Visualization (2017) Animation of #adani + #carmichael showing hub accounts in Australian Twitter discourse.
| Field | Value | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | Hobbs, Mitchell John | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sun, Chao | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-25 | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-06-25 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-06-25 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20607 | |
| dc.description | A Twitter scrape of 3,500 tweets in the TrISMA database that contained both #Carmichael + #Adani hashtags. Each dot in this dynamic graph has a uniform size and represents a unique user account. The lines between accounts represent relationships defined by three types of actions: retweets, replies and mentions (in this study "mentioning" means inserting @username anywhere in the text of specific tweet). All three actions result in the soft-power of information dissemination (i.e. the enhanced visibility of a message for an original user). The end result of the animation shows hub accounts, which received multiple retweets, replies or mentions from their personal followers or the followers of the specific hashtags. Hub accounts were, then, more influential in carrying messages, as opposed to the non-hub accounts which failed to circulate. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This study provides an investigation of a suspected astroturfing campaign concerning the Adani Carmichael coal mine first identified by BuzzFeed in 2017. It asks three related research questions. RQ1: Can digital research methods and social media network analysis be used to identify and prove/disprove astroturfing on Twitter? RQ2: Were the accounts supporting the mine an "army" of social bots? RQ3: What is the potential effectiveness of this specific type of outsider lobbying on social media? This analysis situating social media astroturfing within the research literature on issues management, outsider lobbying, false front groups and astroturfing. Social media network analysis is used to exploring the empirical data and generate network visualisations. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | The University of Sydney | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Social Media Network Analysis (SMNA) | en |
| dc.subject | Tracking Infrastructure for Social Media Analysis (TrISMA) | en |
| dc.subject | Adani | en |
| dc.subject | Carmichael | en |
| dc.title | Dynamic Visualization (2017) Animation of #adani + #carmichael showing hub accounts in Australian Twitter discourse. | en |
| dc.type | Dataset | en |
| dc.subject.asrc | FoR::200101 - Communication Studies | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.25910/5d11724a6b7c9 | |
| usyd.faculty | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | en |
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