Paper Info
Title
Mapping a Twitter scholarly communication network: a case of the association of internet researchers' conference.
Abstract
This paper investigates how scholars in the digital humanities use Twitter for informal scholarly communication. In particular, the paper observes the hosting of an annual conference over a number of years by one association in order to see whether there was a change in the network configuration structure, the influential scholars in the network, the information sources, and the tweet contents. Annual conferences held by the Association of Internet Researchers over 3 years are used for data collection. According to our result, while the Twitter communication network developed into a bigger network, the basic form of the network configuration remained stable as a Tight Crowd structure and the core influential people were not much changed. Analyses on information source and content found topic changes in each year but consistency in the kind of information source and content.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s11192-017-2413-z
Scientometrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Twitter,Scholarly communication,Influential,Social network analysis,Topic models,Semantic network analysis,Content analysis
Data mining,Data collection,World Wide Web,Content analysis,Telecommunications network,Computer science,Social network analysis,Digital humanities,Topic model,Scholarly communication,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
112
2
0138-9130
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.44
17
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mi Kyung Lee150.44
Ho Young Yoon2181.08
Marc Smith350.44
Hye Jin Park460.80
Han Woo Park576057.84