Epilogue: Why study Twitter?
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Each of the thirty-one contributions in this volume implicitly spells out its own answer to this question. Surprisingly perhaps even for such a highly interdisciplinary volume as this one, these answers vary considerably in their approaches, their objectives, and their underlying assumptions about the object of study. This diversity of scholarly perspectives on Twitter, barely half a decade since it first emerged as a popular platform, highlights its versatility. Beginning as a side project to a now-forgotten podcasting platform, rising to popularity as a social network service focussed around mundane communication and therefore widely lambasted as a cesspool of vanity and triviality by incredulous journalists (including technology journalists), it was later embraced by those same journalists, governments, and businesses as a crucial source of real-time information on everything from natural disasters to celebrity gossip, and from debates over sexual violence to Vatican politics.
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Item Type: | Chapter in Book, Report or Conference volume (Chapter) | ||||
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Measurements or Duration: | 8 pages | ||||
Keywords: | Internet studies, Twitter, social media | ||||
ISBN: | 978-1-4331-2170-8 | ||||
Pure ID: | 32629073 | ||||
Divisions: | Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Creative Industries Faculty Past > Research Centres > ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation |
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Deposited On: | 20 Jan 2014 01:13 | ||||
Last Modified: | 06 Mar 2024 10:10 |
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