Vladimir Putin has never been a fan of a free press or open public debates, but the Ukraine crisis has provided the Kremlin with a new favorite target for cracking down even more harshly on political expression: cyberspace.
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A conversation with Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Internet Project, about the project's new report on mapping Twitter conversations.
People connect to form groups on Twitter for a variety of purposes. The networks they create have identifiable contours that are shaped by the topic being discussed, the information and influencers driving the conversation, and the social network structures of the participants.
Have you ever wondered what a Twitter conversation looks like from 10,000 feet?
People connect to form groups on Twitter for a variety of purposes. The networks they create have identifiable contours that are shaped by the topic being discussed, the information and influencers driving the conversation, and the social network structures of the participants.
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
The word “women” appeared more often than 30 other search terms in the Twitter discussion, followed by such domestic topics as education, jobs, healthcare reform and the economy.
Methodology https://legacy.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/01/30/on-twitter-criticism-exceeds-praise-for-obamas-speech/ This analysis of the Twitter reaction to the 2014 State of the Union address employed media research methods that combined Pew Research’s content analysis rules with computer coding software developed by Crimson Hexagon (CH). This report is based on examinations of more than 1.6 million tweets, and is a follow-up to a similar […]
Methodology https://legacy.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/01/10/twitter-users-give-christie-negative-marks-on-bridge-scandal/ This analysis employed media research methods that combined Pew Research’s content analysis rules with computer coding software developed by Crimson Hexagon. This report is based on examinations of more than 250,000 tweets. Crimson Hexagon is a software platform that identifies statistical patterns in words used in online texts. Researchers enter key terms using […]
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