Tweeting disaster: hashtag constructions and collisions

By Liza Potts, Joyce Seitzinger, Dave Jones, Angela Harrison. 2011

75 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Communication

1. Alexandra Olteanu
2. Carlos Castillo
3. Fernando Diaz
4. Emre Kıcıman
5. Sarah Vieweg
6. Michele Zappavigna
7. Muhammad Imran
8. Gabriella Kazai

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Alexandra Olteanu
2. Fernando Diaz
3. Carlos Castillo
4. Emre Kıcıman
5. Sarah Vieweg
6. Michele Zappavigna
7. Gabriella Kazai
8. Muhammad Imran

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. Alexandra Olteanu
2. Carlos Castillo
3. Fernando Diaz
4. Emre Kıcıman
5. Sarah Vieweg
6. Muhammad Imran
7. Gabriella Kazai

Citations in the corpus

• Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, background): “Ultimately, hashtags are a form of social tagging (or folksonomies), and even if we assume that all relevant data is tagged, their use is often inconsistent (varying formats, spellings or word ordering) (Potts et al., 2011).”
• #Communing affiliation: Social tagging as a resource for aligning around values in social media (2017, background): “…ecology has also been described as a ‘backchannel’ to other forms of communication about a wide range of phenomena, including public events (Bruns and Burgess, 2012), crises (Lachlan et al., 2014; Potts et al., 2011), and entertainment (Pittman and Tefertiller, 2015; Highfield et al., 2013).”
• CrisisLex: A Lexicon for Collecting and Filtering Microblogged Communications in Crises (2014, background): “During crises, specific hashtags emerge from the start, with some quickly fading away, while others are widely adopted (Potts et al. 2011).”