By Beth Driscoll
@Beth_driscoll
I research literary culture on twitter, and one of the challenges I face
is describing the shape of these conversations to a general audience: twitter
can seem like a disorienting, fast-flowing river for those who do not use it
frequently. I decided to try using Storify, and chose as a case study the live
twitter stream that accompanied a session with author Gerald Murnane at the
Melbourne Writers Festival on August 22nd, 2014. I was in the audience too and
couldn't help tweeting some of his great one-liners!
What I liked about Storify was that it allowed me to group tweets, show
the flow of mini conversations, highlight the participation of those who
weren't there physically, and add supplementary notes e.g. where I noticed a
disjuncture between what happened physically at the session and how it was
reported on twitter.
So this is a first go by me at this visualisation tool:
https://storify.com/Beth_driscoll/gerald-murnane-at-the-melbourne-writers-festival-2
After creating this Storify and posting it using my twitter account, I
was pleased to see it re-tweeted and favourited a few times, suggesting this
methodology has potential for the dissemination of research in an accessible
format.
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