Ageing factor: a potential altmetric for observing events and attention spans in microblogs

Victoria Uren; Aba-Sah Dadzie

Ageing factor: a potential altmetric for observing events and attention spans in microblogs

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Abstract

We present an initial examination of the (alt)metric ageing factor to study posts
in Twitter. Ageing factor was used to characterize a sample of tweets, which
contained a variety of astronomical terms. It was found that ageing factor can
detect topics that both cause people to retweet faster than baseline values, and
topics that hold people’s attention for longer than baseline values.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	KECSM-2012 : knowledge extraction and consolidation from social media
Subtitle of host publication	proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction & Consolidation from Social Media in conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) Boston, USA, November 12, 2012
Editors	Diana Maynard, Stefan Dietze, Wim Peters, Jonathon Hare
Pages	34-47
Number of pages	14
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	1st International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation from Social Media - Boston, United States Duration: 11 Nov 2012 → …

Publication series

Name	CEUR workshop proceedings
Number	895
ISSN (Print)	0074-8950

Conference

Conference	1st International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation from Social Media
Abbreviated title	KECSM 2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	11/11/12 → …

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Uren, V., & Dadzie, A.-S. (2012). Ageing factor: a potential altmetric for observing events and attention spans in microblogs. In D. Maynard, S. Dietze, W. Peters, & J. Hare (Eds.), KECSM-2012 : knowledge extraction and consolidation from social media: proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction & Consolidation from Social Media in conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) Boston, USA, November 12, 2012 (pp. 34-47). (CEUR workshop proceedings; No. 895). http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-895/paper5.pdf

Uren, Victoria ; Dadzie, Aba-Sah. / Ageing factor : a potential altmetric for observing events and attention spans in microblogs. KECSM-2012 : knowledge extraction and consolidation from social media: proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction & Consolidation from Social Media in conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) Boston, USA, November 12, 2012. editor / Diana Maynard ; Stefan Dietze ; Wim Peters ; Jonathon Hare. 2012. pp. 34-47 (CEUR workshop proceedings; 895).

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Uren, V & Dadzie, A-S 2012, Ageing factor: a potential altmetric for observing events and attention spans in microblogs. in D Maynard, S Dietze, W Peters & J Hare (eds), KECSM-2012 : knowledge extraction and consolidation from social media: proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction & Consolidation from Social Media in conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) Boston, USA, November 12, 2012. CEUR workshop proceedings, no. 895, pp. 34-47, 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation from Social Media, Boston, United States, 11/11/12. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-895/paper5.pdf>

Ageing factor: a potential altmetric for observing events and attention spans in microblogs. / Uren, Victoria; Dadzie, Aba-Sah.
KECSM-2012 : knowledge extraction and consolidation from social media: proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Extraction & Consolidation from Social Media in conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) Boston, USA, November 12, 2012. ed. / Diana Maynard; Stefan Dietze; Wim Peters; Jonathon Hare. 2012. p. 34-47 (CEUR workshop proceedings; No. 895).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication

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Ageing factor: a potential altmetric for observing events and attention spans in microblogs

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Analysing Public Engagement with Science on Twitter,

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Ageing factor: a potential altmetric for observing events and attention spans in microblogs

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Analysing Public Engagement with Science on Twitter,

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