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Twitter-Öffentlichkeiten: Identifikation und Interpretation der Strukturen von Follower-Netzwerken

Twitter Publics: Identification and Interpretation of Follower Network Structures
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This document is a part of the following document:
Digitale Methoden in der Kommunikationswissenschaft

Maireder, Axel
Schlögl, Stephan

Abstract

Der Beitrag nimmt die Struktur der Follower-Verknüpfungen zwischen TwitternutzerInnen in den Blick, die sich an bestimmten Themen und Diskursen beteiligen. Verdichtungen in diesen Netzwerken verstehen die Autoren als (Teil-)öffentlichkeiten, deren Analyse Einblicke in die Partizipationsstrukturen in... view more

Der Beitrag nimmt die Struktur der Follower-Verknüpfungen zwischen TwitternutzerInnen in den Blick, die sich an bestimmten Themen und Diskursen beteiligen. Verdichtungen in diesen Netzwerken verstehen die Autoren als (Teil-)öffentlichkeiten, deren Analyse Einblicke in die Partizipationsstrukturen in öffentlichen Kommunikationsprozessen ermöglicht. Anhand zweier Beispiele aus dem Feld der politischen Kommunikation wird die Vorgehensweise bei der Datensammlung, -aufbereitung und -analyse dargelegt und vor dem Hintergrund des methodologischen Konzepts diskutiert. Die Ergebnisse der beiden Fallstudien werden anschließend verglichen und daraus Faktoren für die Beschreibung von Twitter-Communities in politischen Kontexten abgeleitet. Der Beitrag schließt mit einem Ausblick auf weiterführende Analysen und Anwendungsfelder von Clusteranalysen in Twitter-Follower-Netzwerken.... view less


The paper focuses on the follower networks of Twitter users that participate in specific discourses. Clusters within these networks are understood by the authors as publics. They argue that analyzing those publics provides insight into the structures of participation within public debates. After int... view more

The paper focuses on the follower networks of Twitter users that participate in specific discourses. Clusters within these networks are understood by the authors as publics. They argue that analyzing those publics provides insight into the structures of participation within public debates. After introducing their research framework and two case studies, the authors present each phase of their approach – from data gathering and processing to cluster analyses and interpretation. The results of the case studies are compared and used to distill the features that seem to define Twitter publics. The paper concludes with an overview of how these publics could provide the basis for additional analyses and a discussion of the method’s potential applications.... view less

Keywords
network; social media; cluster analysis; political communication; communications area; twitter; discourse; data preparation; public communications; the public; data capture; network analysis

Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of the Science of Communication
Interactive, electronic Media
Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics

Collection Title
Digitale Methoden in der Kommunikationswissenschaft

Editor
Maireder, Axel; Ausserhofer, Julian; Schumann, Christina; Taddicken, Monika

Document language
German

Publication Year
2015

City
Berlin

Page/Pages
p. 115-139

Series
Digital Communication Research, 2

ISSN
2198-7610

ISBN
978-3-945681-02-2

Status
Primary Publication; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution


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