fmartin – THATCamp Sydney 2013 http://sydney2013.thatcamp.org Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:22:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 research ethics 2.0: association of internet researchers http://sydney2013.thatcamp.org/2013/10/31/research-ethics-2-0-association-of-internet-researchers/ Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:22:49 +0000 http://sydney2013.thatcamp.org/?p=307

The international AOIR has a great ongoing discussion about ethics of doing social media research, including 2012 recommendations for researchers and a wiki that you can contribute to. Check it out!

]]> Down and dirty with mhealth tweets + SNA http://sydney2013.thatcamp.org/2013/10/28/down-and-dirty-with-mhealth-tweets-sna/ Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:05:36 +0000 http://sydney2013.thatcamp.org/?p=261 Continue reading →]]>

A_mhealth_map2Mhealth policy conversations in social media are generating lots of data, but what can this tell us about the actors, their networked relationships or their investment in formal policy processes?

The Moving Media  project has been exploring social network analysis of mhealth tagged tweets to better understand the informal policy networks that are developing on Twitter – but we’ve come up with some big questions about the analytical processes we’re using.

So we’d like to start a discussion about some of the challenges of doing SNA and network visualisations with this type of data, including things like:

  • The types of tools that DH are using for SNA (Gephi vs Node XL)
  • How to slice big data
  • How to locate the data across maps
  • How to automate the data scraping process
  • How to share the data back with the users

We’d also like to know what you’re doing in this space and what discoveries you’ve made.

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