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Gathering in Digital Spaces: Exploring Topical Communities on Twitter

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Social Informatics (SocInfo 2011)

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On Twitter, hashtags allow users to gather around a topic in a digital space, something that has been common since early IRC and internet chat rooms. However there are three important differences when gathering on Twitter: persistence, invitation, and device independence. In this paper, we search for patterns in these digital spaces through the use of visualization to explore the temporal rhythms that emerge.

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  1. Google, Canada

    Cate Huston

  2. Carleton University, Canada

    Michael Weiss

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  1. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Block N4, Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

    Anwitaman Datta

  2. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Thompson Hall, 200 Hicks Way, 01003, Amherst, MA, USA

    Stuart Shulman

  3. Singapore Management University, Singapore

    Baihua Zheng

  4. Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University,, Roosevelt Rd., 10617, Taipei, Taiwan

    Shou-De Lin

  5. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Block N4, Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

    Aixin Sun

  6. School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Rd, 178902, Singapore

    Ee-Peng Lim

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Huston, C., Weiss, M. (2011). Gathering in Digital Spaces: Exploring Topical Communities on Twitter. In: Datta, A., Shulman, S., Zheng, B., Lin, SD., Sun, A., Lim, EP. (eds) Social Informatics. SocInfo 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6984. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24704-0_39

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