https://civic.mit.edu Creating Technology for Social Change Thu, 23 May 2013 14:28:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 https://civic.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2018/03/cropped-CivicMedia_Symbol_K_RGB-32x32.png https://civic.mit.edu 32 32 https://civic.mit.edu/2013/05/23/tracking-twitter-accounts-in-the-news/ Thu, 23 May 2013 14:28:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/05/23/tracking-twitter-accounts-in-the-news/   I recently worked with Nathan Matias on a project that I think reflects the modern relationship between journalism and social media: tracking the number of times Twitter accounts are quoted by news stories. For example, during the Arab Spring, journalist Andy Carvin used Twitter as a source to cover breaking developments in Tahrir square. GlobalVoices also uses social media sources extensively, as Nathan Matias charted in this post for PBS IdeaLab. Inspired by these […]]]>