Nerding out on Twitter: fun, patriotism and #curiosity

Victoria Uren; Aba-Sah Dadzie

Nerding out on Twitter: fun, patriotism and #curiosity

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Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of tweets collected over six days before, during and after the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory, known as Curiosity, in the Gale Crater on the 6th of August 2012. A sociological application of web science is demonstrated by use of parallel coordinate visualization as part of a mixed methods study. The results show strong, predominantly positive, international interest in the event. Scientific details dominated the stream, but, following the successful landing, other themes emerged such as fun, and national pride.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	WWW'13 companion
Subtitle of host publication	proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
Publisher	ACM
Pages	605-612
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-2038-2
Publication status	Published - 13 May 2013
Event	22nd international conference on World Wide Web - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Duration: 13 May 2013 → 17 May 2013

Conference

Conference	22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Abbreviated title	WWW 2013
Country/Territory	Brazil
City	Rio de Janeiro
Period	13/05/13 → 17/05/13

Keywords

High-dimensional visualization
Parallel coordinates visualization
Public engagement with science
Web science

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Nerding out on Twitter: fun, patriotism and #curiosity

Abstract

Conference

Keywords

Other files and links

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Cost-effective node monitoring for online hot event detection in sina weibo microblogging

Making sense of microposts (#MSM2013) concept extraction challenge

Analysing Public Engagement with Science on Twitter,

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Nerding out on Twitter: fun, patriotism and #curiosity

Abstract

Conference

Keywords

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Research output

Cost-effective node monitoring for online hot event detection in sina weibo microblogging

Making sense of microposts (#MSM2013) concept extraction challenge

Activities

Analysing Public Engagement with Science on Twitter,

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