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“Wednesday marks Independence Day here in the United States. Beyond the fireworks and barbecue, July 4th serves as an important reminder of the need to hold governments accountable, especially on behalf of those who may not have a chance to do so themselves. With that in mind, today were unveiling our first Twitter Transparency Report. …
The Public Domain: Surveillance in Everyday Life, Alice Marwick. Surveillance & Society, Vol 9, No 4 (2012) “People create profiles on social network sites and Twitter accounts against the background of an audience. This paper argues that closely examining content created by others and looking at ones own content through other peoples eyes, a common …
New Technology Emerges to Archive Web Pages by John Adams “Smarsh’s web archiving captures a web site’s individual pages, and the content of those pages, in the original format. That provides a record to what was published online at any point in time. Archived web pages are rendered with the original design and experience. The …
A Study of “Churn” in Tweets and Real-Time Search Queries (Extended Version) – Jimmy Lin, Gilad Mishne (Submitted on 30 May 2012) “The real-time nature of Twitter means that term distributions in tweets and in search queries change rapidly: the most frequent terms in one hour may look very different from those in the next. …
Research Blogs and the Discussion of Scholarly Information, Shema H, Bar-Ilan J, Thelwall M (2012) Research Blogs and the Discussion of Scholarly Information. PLoS ONE 7(5): e35869. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035869: “The research blog has become a popular mechanism for the quick discussion of scholarly information. However, unlike peer-reviewed journals, the characteristics of this form of scientific discourse …
Twitter Use 2012: Findings – “Some 15% of online adults use Twitter as of February 2012, and 8% do so on a typical day. Although overall Twitter usage has nearly doubled since the Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project first asked a stand-alone Twitter question in November 2010, the 15% of online adults …
Via EPIC FOIA release, Analysts Desktop Binder 2011 Redacted, Department of Homeland Security National Operations Center Media Monitoring Capability, Desktop Reference Binder. “MMC [media monitoring capability] coverage focuses primarily on providing information on incidents of national significance, which are usually defined as catastrophic events that result in wide-scale damage or disruption to the nations critical …
News release: “The curated Twitter content in Factiva covers 31 industries, including energy, financial services and technology, with a focus on the most influential tweeters from around the globe. The real time content is available via Factiva Snapshot, a business search tool with news dashboards that help businesses to efficiently gather intelligence and identify trends, …
Should I Respond Online On EPAs Behalf? – Questions to guide my decision Use with Representing EPA Online Using Social Media Procedure
Working the Network: A Managers Guide for Using Twitter in Government, Ines Mergel – Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. May 14, 2012. “As of this writing, the federal government operates over 1,000 Twitter feeds. Federal civilian agencies maintain over 360 Twitter feeds, while the Department of Defense hosts more than 650. …
Sunlight Labs: “The U.S. State Department encourages the use of social media and actively tweets as part of a new 21st Century Statecraft initiative, with diplomats required to undergo Twitter training. But why do 121 U.S. embassies have Twitter accounts, and 54 do not? What do they say through these accounts? And who listens?” Twitter …
E-Democracy.org: “Our 2010-11 Inclusive Social Media pilot funded by the Ford Foundation built a foundation for taking our inclusive online engagement work to the next stage. Knowing what we are experiencing requires a reflective evaluation. Today, we are sharing the executive summary from our participatory evaluation and publishing the entire 60 page review (PDF).
