Using APIs for Data Collection on Social Media

Lomborg, Stine; Bechmann, Anja

doi:10.1080/01972243.2014.915276

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“…As suggested by Lomborg and Bechmann (2014), the type of data presented here "say very little about the meanings that users ascribe to their social media use" (p. 260). As such, although the "overall picture" provided here is certainly of use, varying forms of more qualitative inquiry are duly needed to provide different perspectives.…”

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Triumph of the Underdogs? Comparing Twitter Use by Political Actors During Two Norwegian Election Campaigns

Larsson

Moe

2014

Sage Open

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Social media are often discussed in terms of online novelties. However, especially within the broader field of political communication, the uses of such services, as Twitter, at the hands of political actors such as politicians and the parties to which they belong, have become something of a fixture of research in recent years. Although the study of political Twitter use has provided a series of insightful case studies, often focused on one single election or country, this article presents a comparative study looking at Twitter use at the hands of political actors during two Norwegian elections, 2011 and 2013. We are interested in what overarching tendencies can be discerned from these uses-specifically, if differing usages can be found between the two elections, suggesting developments pertaining to the normalization and equalization hypotheses respectively. This is examined by focusing on two main analytical areas: The level and type of activity undertaken by those up for election, and the repercussions that this activity appears to have in terms of popularity on the studied platform. In short, the results suggest that although Twitter largely remains an "elite" medium in the Norwegian context, smaller political and other actors are making use of the platform at hand to higher degrees than their more well-known peers. Tendencies of both hypotheses are traced in the data, and although the findings could signal an opening for "outsiders" in this regard, the sheer amount of traffic driving the tweets sent by high-end politicians suggest otherwise.

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Triumph of the Underdogs? Comparing Twitter Use by Political Actors During Two Norwegian Election Campaigns

Larsson

Moe

2014

Sage Open

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“…These methodological issues have previously been raised by several scholars (e.g. Bruns & Liang ; Lomborg & Bechmann ).…”

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Mental health nurses’ use of Twitter for professional purposes during conference participation using #acmhn2016

Salzmann‐Erikson

2017

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Scholars across different disciplines use Twitter to promote research and to communicate with society. Most conferences nowadays have their unique hashtag in which participants can communicate in real time. Previous research has reported on conference participants' use of Twitter, but no such studies are available in the field of mental health nursing. Thus, the explicit aim of the present study was to examine conference participants' use of Twitter during the 42nd International Mental Health Nursing Conference. Freely-accessible data were mined via a social media platform under the hashtag #acmhn2016. The total dataset consisted of 1973 tweets, and was analysed with descriptive statistics and a directed content analysis. The results demonstrated that 37% of the tweets were original posts, and 63% were engagements. In total, 184 individual accounts engaged in Twitter during the conference, and 16.4 tweets were posted hourly. Most tweets were categorized as conference/session-related content, but Twitter was also used for socializing with other participants. The most frequently-used words mirror a clear connection to a person-centred approach, and deviate from the biomedical terminology. However, not all of the conference participants engaged on Twitter, and might thereby risk being excluded from this backchannel.

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“…For example, a retweet might indicate an expression of support for one user, while others may have ascribed different or even a fluctuating meaning to this or any of the other practices discussed above (Lomborg & Bechmann, 2014). As such, the aggregated view championed here might not be able to delve into these intricacies.…”

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Comparing to Prepare: Suggesting Ways to Study Social Media Today—and Tomorrow

Larsson

2015

Social Media + Society

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While the two currently most popular social media services -Twitter and Facebook -are different in terms of technical and end-user details, this paper suggests that a series of similarities can also be found regarding different modes of communication offered by both services. These modes are labeled as Broadcasting, Redistributing, Interacting and Acknowledging. The argument is put forward that such synthesis of communication modes across platform could prove useful for longitudinal and comparative research efforts.

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Using APIs for Data Collection on Social Media

Cited by 191 publications

References 31 publications

Triumph of the Underdogs? Comparing Twitter Use by Political Actors During Two Norwegian Election Campaigns

Triumph of the Underdogs? Comparing Twitter Use by Political Actors During Two Norwegian Election Campaigns

Mental health nurses’ use of Twitter for professional purposes during conference participation using #acmhn2016

Comparing to Prepare: Suggesting Ways to Study Social Media Today—and Tomorrow

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