[Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups

[Steven Clift]

You might be interested in what we are doing with:

   https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup

I trolled deeply to find scores of open government, open data, smart
city, civic tech Facebook Groups around the world, many are listed
here:

http://pages.e-democracy.org/List_of_groups

And far more are here (mixed with other groups):
https://www.facebook.com/stevenlclift/groups

I then worked to promote this new global group as a space to connect
these many national/language based groups.

Because Facebook controls message distribution via News feed exposure,
the number of members are deceiving and at about 250 members, the
default notification switches from all new posts to new posts from
just your friends, these spaces can quickly become dormant. However,
some Facebook Groups really have a lot of life if they have continued
posting of new topics by an array of members.



On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Andreas Birkbak <a.birkbak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Ruth,
>
> Here's a study of two Facebook Groups founded in reaction to a snowstorm
> emergency in Denmark that I've done:
> http://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/crystallizations-in-the-blizzard(00900bdf-5dd9-4edf-8a99-582c96b22081).html
>
> It combines quantitative and qualitative approaches, including analysis of
> discourse.
>
> Best,
> Andreas
>
>
> 2014-01-23 21:48 GMT+01:00 Pask-Hughes, Alexander <
> a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk>:
>
>> Hi Ruth,
>>
>> I imagine you'll have likely come across these and not all look at
>> Facebook, but I think they're probably relevant discourse-analytic
>> examples, with a focus beyond self and identity:
>>
>> Burke & Goodman (2012) "Bring back Hitler's gas chambers": Asylum seeking,
>> Nazis and Facebook - A discursive analysis. D&S 23(1).
>>
>> Goodman & Rowe (2014) "Maybe it is prejudice... but it is NOT racism":
>> Negotiating racism in discussion forums about Gypsies. D&S 25(1).
>>
>> Shaikjee & Milani (2013) "It's time for Afrikaans to go"... or not?
>> Language ideologies and (ir)rationality in the blogosphere. Language
>> Matters 44(2).
>>
>>
>> Aside from these, there's the research from Todd Graham and Scott Wright
>> (including the EU cyberspace paper with Ruth Wodak), although that's
>> probably veering too far away from both Facebook and discourse analysis.
>>
>> I was sure someone archived the Thatcher tweets as well...
>>
>>
>> Alexander David Pask-Hughes
>>
>> PhD student
>> Seminar Tutor for LING204: Discourse Analysis
>>
>> Department of Linguistics and English Language
>> Lancaster University
>>
>> E-mail: a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk
>> Twitter: @adpaskhughes
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org]
>> on behalf of Page, Ruth (Dr.) [rep22 at leicester.ac.uk]
>> Sent: 22 January 2014 09:49
>> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>> Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups
>> Dear AoIR list members,
>>
>> I'm doing some work from a discourse analysis perspective on the way
>> interactions on Facebook public groups take place. I'm specifically looking
>> at the RIP pages set up in response to the death of former Prime Minister
>> Margaret Thatcher.
>>
>> I'm familiar with a lot of the research literature on Facebook, but most
>> of what I know is based on studies that examined personal Facebook
>> accounts/wall interactions.
>>
>> Can anyone please recommend studies of Facebook groups? I'm especially
>> interested in anything that has a linguistic/discourse analysis focus, but
>> it would also be good to learn from studies from a more general social
>> science perspective too.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
>>
>> Ruth
>>
>> Dr Ruth Page
>> Room 1509, Attenborough Tower
>> School of English
>> University of Leicester
>> Leicester
>> LE1 7RH
>> UK
>> +44 (0)116 223 1286
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