A #IGNCC14 Twitter Archive (Conference Days Only)

~ Ernesto Priego

The Fifth International Comics and Graphic Novels Conference took place in London 18- 20 July 2014. The official hashtag was #IGNCC14.

I have uploaded to figshare an .XLS file containing a dataset of Tweets tagged with #IGNCC14 (case not sensitive).

Priego, Ernesto (2014): A #IGNCC4 Twitter Archive (Conference Days Only).   figshare.

http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1112639

The complete archive contains  1294  Tweets published publicly and tagged with #IGNCC14 between 18/07/2014  07:25:47 BST and 21/07/2014  10:17:15 BST.

The conference’s Twitter activity at a glance:

 

#igncc14 TAGS Archive dashboard
#igncc14 TAGS Archive dashboard
#igncc14 Tweet Volume Over Time
#igncc14 Tweet Volume Over Time

The Tweets contained in the archive were collected using Martin Hawksey’s TAGS 5.1.  The file contains five sheets:

  • Sheet 0. A ‘Cite Me’ sheet, including procedence of this file, citation information,  information about its contents, the methods employed and some context.
  • Sheet 1.  Complete #IGNCC14 Archive (Conference days only). 1294 Tweets, from 18/07/2014  07:25:47 BST to 21/07/2014  10:17:15 BST.
  • Sheet 2.  Friday 18 July 2014. 469 Tweets, from 18/07/2014  07:25:47 BST  to 18/07/2014  21:27:23 BST.
  • Sheet 3. Saturday 19 July 2014. 390 Tweets, from 19/07/2014  06:54:24 BST to 19/07/2014  18:01:05 BST.
  • Sheet 4. Sunday 20 July 2014. 433 Tweets, from 20/07/2014  01:41:11 BST to 21/07/2014  10:17:15 BST.

Tweets collected under Local London, UK times. Times in GMT also included.

Only users with at least 2 followers were included in the archive. Retweets have been included. An initial automatic deduplication was performed. I manually organised and quantified the Tweets in the archive into conference days.

Please note that both research and experience show that the Twitter search API isn’t 100% reliable. Large tweet volumes affect the search collection process. The API might “over-represent the more central users”, not offering “an accurate picture of peripheral activity” (González-Bailón, Sandra, et al. 2012). It is not guaranteed thE file contains each and every Tweet tagged with #IGNCC14 during the indicated period, and is shared for comparative and indicative educational and research purposes only.

Please note the data in this file is likely to require further refining and even deduplication. The data is shared as is.  This dataset is shared to encourage open research into scholarly activity on Twitter. If you use or refer to this data in any way please cite and link back using the citation information above.

Published by Ernesto Priego

I'm a lecturer, researcher and editor. I'm interested in many things and do work in many areas. I'm into human-computer interaction design, digital humanities, comics studies, scholarly communications, open access, open data, ethics, public health, politics, media, journalism, human rights. You can follow me on Twitter @ernestopriego.