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Twitter Innocent in English riots

December 8th, 2011 lisa Go to comments

Alex Voss was part of the team investigating the role of social media during the English Riots. The study was highlighted in the University news today, and the Guardian this morning.

Update

The results of the study will also be presented at the Reading the Riots conference, http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/dec/14/reading-the-riots-conference-live-blog which also features a range of other speakers including Ed Miliband, the leader of the opposition, Theresa May, the home secretary and Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary.

The study was led by Professor Rob Procter, of the University of Manchester, and funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee).

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  1. ifs
    December 8th, 2011 at 14:03 | #1

    Alex set up 16 large servers in the St Andrews cloud and analysed 2.6 million tweets in 15 hours. A great example of how cloud computing makes large-scale one-off data analysis possible at a low cost.

    See: http://www.analysingsocialmedia.org/ and http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/series/reading-the-riots for more details.

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