Social media is inherently a system of peer evaluation and is changing the way scholars disseminate their research, raising questions about the way we evaluate academic authority
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Decoding Our Twitter Chatter - WSJ.com - 0 views
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Want to monitor an earthquake, track political activity or predict the ups and downs of the stock market?
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esearchers have found a bonanza of real-time data in the torrential flow of Twitter feeds.
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They discovered that in the crisis, Twitter crowds reflexively sorted facts from falsehoods, exercising a collective wisdom on the fly. She found enough measurable differences in language, citations and posting patterns to devise a way to assess the credibility of Twitter texts automatically, with an accuracy of about 70%.
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BEST OF THE WEB: Finding value in the Twitter stream - 0 views
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Every time a significant event occurs in the public eye, Twitter usually releases a statistic on what this means and how it compared with previous events, usually using the metric of “tweets per second” to denote importance.
Web Ecology Project - 0 views
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Researching Quantized Social Interaction
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open access
Truthy - 0 views
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is a research project that helps you understand how memes spread online.
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Truthy
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