Rising tides or rising stars?: Dynamics of shared attention on Twitter during media events.

ABSTRACT: "Media events" generate conditions of shared attention as many users simultaneously tune in with the dual screens of broadcast and social media to view and participate. We examine how collective patterns of user behavior under conditions of shared attention are distinct from other "bursts" of activity like breaking news events. Using 290 million tweets from a panel of 193,532 politically active Twitter users, we compare features of their behavior during eight major events during the 2012 U.S. presidential election to examine how patterns of social media use change during these media events compared to "typical" time and whether these changes are attributable to shifts in the behavior of the population as a whole or shifts from particular segments such as elites. Compared to baseline time p

SUBMITTER: Lin YR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4031071 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature