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Main => General Discussion => Topic started by: luckybit on November 05, 2014, 08:55:00 am
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Truthy is a research project to study how memes spread on social media. A meme is a transmissible unit of information, such as a hashtag, phrase, or link.
This website highlights some of the research coming from this effort and showcases some visualizations, tools, and data resources demonstrating broader impacts of the project.
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More Tweets, More Votes
Truthy team members Karissa McKelvey and Johan Bollen collaborated with IU Department of Sociology members Joseph DiGrazia and Fabio Rojas on the paper More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior published in PLoS ONE. The paper aimed to see if the share of social media attention garnered by political candidates is significantly and reliably correlated with electoral performance. Their research suggests that indeed, holding other factors constant, candidates who received a larger share of attention on Twitter were more likely to win than their opponents.
Popular news outlets including Wall Street Journal, NPR and Washington Post picked up the story, many focusing in particular on potential ramifications the research will have on the current methods of political polling. More press links for this paper can be found at Karissa's website.
Reference
http://truthy.indiana.edu/
http://truthy.indiana.edu/highlights/
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Luckybit, I don't know how you find half the information you post. I think your research is amazing. You are providing so much material for wannabe entrepreneurs. I find your posts most useful! I hope other's take note!
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Luckybit, I don't know how you find half the information you post. I think your research is amazing. You are providing so much material for wannabe entrepreneurs. I find your posts most useful! I hope other's take note!
yeh he is pretty much as bad a badass as they come. /humbled.
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Luckybit, I don't know how you find half the information you post. I think your research is amazing. You are providing so much material for wannabe entrepreneurs. I find your posts most useful! I hope other's take note!
yeh he is pretty much as bad a badass as they come. /humbled.
:)