Twitter and Society
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Twitter and Society

  1. 447 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Twitter and Society

About this book

This book has won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award 2014. Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has evolved from a niche service to a mass phenomenon; it has become instrumental for everyday communication as well as for political debates, crisis communication, marketing, and cultural participation. But the basic idea behind it has stayed the same: users may post short messages (tweets) of up to 140 characters and follow the updates posted by other users. Drawing on the experience of leading international Twitter researchers from a variety of disciplines and contexts, this is the first book to document the various notions and concepts of Twitter communication, providing a detailed and comprehensive overview of current research into the uses of Twitter. It also presents methods for analyzing Twitter data and outlines their practical application in different research contexts.

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Yes, you can access Twitter and Society by Katrin Weller, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Merja Mahrt, Cornelius Puschmann in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Communication Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Foreword: Debanalising Twitter: The Transformation of an Object of Study Richard Rogers ix
  4. Acknowledgments xxvii
  5. Twitter and Society: An Introduction Katrin Weller, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Merja Mahrt, & Cornelius Puschmann xxix
  6. Part I: Concepts and Methods
  7. Part II: Perspectives and Practices
  8. Epilogue: Why Study Twitter? Cornelius Puschmann, Axel Bruns, Merja Mahrt, Katrin Weller, and Jean Burgess 425
  9. Notes on Contributors 433