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Archive for November, 2009
Methodological woes
Nov 27th
For my thesis I need to first successfully write and defend a proposal which I’ve been working on for a while now. I’m currently writing my methodology section and I’m struggling. I turn to you dear readers for suggestions. I know that you can help me out!
My question is – how does one rate influence on Twitter? I know there is Tweet Grader but I’m not sure it gives me a reliable enough way of measuring someone’s influence, amplification and impact. I need to be able to pick the Top twenty commentators on a subject – any suggestions on how to figure that out? Presumably there is a way to look at a user’s number of followers, combine that with how many people they follow plus the amount of times their posts are re-tweeted to get an idea of their influence. A further thing to think about is to understand someone’s influence on Twitter do you need to then track the RTs of their RTs? Presumably this tool already exists!
Please and thank you for your help with my methodological woes!
Hello my name is Caitlin and I have a problem…
Nov 13th
So the time has come for me to launch a blog. I’m in the midst of an MA program at the University of Ottawa, studying Communication and am planning to use this blog to help develop my ideas and arguments. For my thesis, I’m researching concepts surrounding the future of news and newspapers. After I’ve put together a semantic mapping of these concepts I will be translating them into IEML:
IEML (Information Economy MetaLanguage) is a regular language that provides new methods for semantic interoperability, semantic navigation, collective categorization and self-referential collective intelligence. (taken from: IEML website)
Hopefully my WordPress skills will develop but for now I apologize for all the weird, non-visually pleasing formatting. Also, presumably, my blogging skills will develop. This is a first for me (which seems weird too!) but I was of the impression that there were more than enough blogs out there and that my voice would not add any new content, but now that I am spending my days reading, writing and researching I figured I could add something of value to the discourse.
For now this blog will most likely focus on my musings surrounding what other people are saying in the often fiery, always interesting, debate on the future of the newspaper. Although I’m a bit of a goldfish so there will definitely be other things appearing from time to time!
p.s. I don’t really have a problem. Well maybe I do – I think it’s my thesis 