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Social Media Use in the Queensland Floods
Assoc. Prof. Axel Bruns / Dr. Jean BurgessQueensland University of Technology
Assoc. Prof. Kate Crawford / Frances ShawUniversity of New South Wales
ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation
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Crisis Communication research in the CCI
• ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation (national, based at QUT)
• Project: Media Ecologies & Methodological Innovation
• Aims to implement new methods to understand the changing media environment;
• Focusing on the relationship between social media and traditional media and communication platforms;
• Combining large-scale computer-assisted techniques with qualitative social research and close textual analysis
• Focus on Crisis Communication
• Natural disasters
• Other ‘acute events’
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Crisis Communication research in the CCI
Jan-April 2011
• Focus on uses of social media during the Qld Floods
• Archive of tweets using #qldfloods hashtag
• Analysis
• Volume of tweets over time
• @replies and retweets: key actors and their networks
• URLs: key media resources, user-uploaded images and videos
• Emergence and uptake of hashtags and other user conventions
• Content analysis: themes and purposes over time
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Case study: @QPSMedia
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Next steps
• More forensics: successes and failures, especially rumours and misinformation
• Further comparison with other recent natural disasters
• Comparing mainstream and social media coverage
• Social context: in-depth interviews with residents
• Direct engagement with emergency services, government and media
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Twitter and the Queensland Floods: #qldfloods tweets
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Local Focus: #qldfloods from Toowoomba to Brisbane
• Toowoomba vs. Lockyer/Grantham vs. Ipswich vs. Brisbane slide
10 Jan 2011 11 Jan 2011 12 Jan 2011 13 Jan 2011 14 Jan 2011 15 Jan 2011
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Twitter and the Queensland Floods: #qldfloods posters
retweet feeds
mainstream media
Qld Police
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Twitter and the Queensland Floods: #qldfloods @replies
mainstream media
authorities
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Twitter and the Christchurch Earthquake: #eqnz @replies
mainstream media
authorities
utilities
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Key Accounts over Time
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@QPSmedia as Central #qldfloods Information Source
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#qldfloods Network Map – Most Active Accounts Only(Degree >= 15 / Node size: indegree / node colour: outdegree)
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Twitter Events in Perspective: Comparing the Main 24h
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Twitter and the Japanese Tsunami: Beyond the #Hashtag
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Twitter and the Queensland Floods
• First lessons:
• #qldfloods as coordinating tool – one central hashtag
• Go where the users are – and help establish hashtag
• Plus inventive additions – e.g. @QPSmedia #Mythbuster tweets
• Most activity by individuals – but key official accounts cut through
• Enable easy retweeting and sharing of messages
• Respond and engage
• Mainstream media are important in social media environments, too
• Twitter as an amplifier of key messages
• Twitter vs. Facebook – which works when?
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