The use of Twitter hashtags in the formation of ad hoc publics
By Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess. 2011
600 citations recorded by the source corpus.
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- Stefan Stieglitz
- Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch
- Adam Badawy
- Axel Bruns
- Diana Zulli
- Aseel Addawood
- Shyam Sundar
- Kristina Lerman
Citations in the corpus
- Characterizing the 2016 Russian IRA influence campaign (2018, background): “…four U.S. Presidential elections Adamic and Glance (2005); Bekafigo and McBride (2013); Carlisle and Patton (2013); Diakopoulos and Shamma (2010); DiGrazia et al. (2013), and other countries like Australia Bruns and Burgess (2011); Gibson and McAllister (2006), and Norway Enli and Skogerbø (2013).”
- Posting, commenting, and tagging: Effects of sharing news stories on Facebook (2015, methodology): “Such conversational tagging has been noted as a tool for prompting individuals to join in a conversation and build a community around a given topic (Bruns & Burgess, 2011; Huang, Thornton, & Efthimiadis, 2010).”
- Analyzing the Digital Traces of Political Manipulation: The 2016 Russian Interference Twitter Campaign (2018, background): “Presidential elections [1], [8], [13], [22], [23], and other countries like Australia [11], [31], and Norway [26].”
- Extending the Internet meme: Conceptualizing technological mimesis and imitation publics on the TikTok platform (2020, methodology): “Collectively, this analysis extends our understanding of networked publics (e.g. boyd, 2011; Bruns and Burgess, 2011, 2015; Jenkins et al., 2015; Papacharissi, 2014), contributes to the growing interest in memetics (e.g. Shifman, 2013; Tuters and Hagen, 2020; Wiggins, 2019), and is one of the first…”
- Twitter data: What do they represent? (2014, background): “In addition to this macro-layer, which enables the rapid formation of ad hoc publics [5], there is also a meso-layer of everyday communication across the follower networks of individual Twitter accounts [31].”