[liberationtech] meme tracking methods

[Mick McQuaid]

If you don't have free access to the acm library, it may not be
obvious that the supporting website is
 http://memetracker.org
and a copy of the paper is there.

... regarding a message from Deen Freelon on Mar 07:
> A recent memetracking study by Leskovec, Backstrom, and Kleinberg
> was profiled in the NYT awhile back. Here's a link to the actual
> paper: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1557019.1557077
> 
> You also may be interested in the Berkman Center's Media Cloud
> application (http://www.mediacloud.org/) which may do some of what
> you want. ~DEEN
> 
> On 3/7/11 7:20 AM, Giuseppe A. Veltri wrote:
> >Hi Alec,
> >I am aware of services such as Row Feeder or Trendrr and my guess
> >is that they work tracking hashtags. Do you know similar services
> >that are either free or ways of obtaining similar data ?
> >
> >My idea is follow a topic to do a  text mining semantic analysis
> >of domains related to it. However, I am just exploring the idea...
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >g
> >-----------------------------------------
> >Giuseppe A. Veltri
> >personal email ga.veltri at gmail.com <mailto:ga.veltri at gmail.com>
> >work email Giuseppe.Veltri at ec.europa.eu
> ><mailto:Giuseppe.Veltri at ec.europa.eu>
> >web http://www.giuseppeveltri.it/
> >
> >
> >On 7 March 2011 15:41, Alec Muffett <alec.muffett at gmail.com
> ><mailto:alec.muffett at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >    On 7 Mar 2011, at 13:55, Giuseppe A. Veltri wrote:
> >
> >    > Dear all,
> >    > Can you suggest me recent papers that have successfully
> >    implemented meme-tracking methodologies (using whatever source) ?
> >
> >    Hi Giuseppe,
> >
> >    The first thing that went through my mind was "google for hashtags".
> >
> >    Or are you looking at memes differently ?
> >
> >           -a
> >
> >
> >
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> -- 
> Deen Freelon
> Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Communication
> University of Washington
> dfreelon at uw.edu
> http://dfreelon.org/
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