Research on Twitter and Microblogging. List compiled by @zephoria

Bibliography of Research on Twitter & Microblogging

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Last updated: 12/4/09

The research contained below is focused specifically on Twitter and other microblogging phenomena. This list is not methodologically or disciplinarily organized. There is work here from communications, information science, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, cultural studies, computer science, etc. (There is some overlap between this listing and the listing of Research on Social Network Sites.)

I try to keep this up to date so please send me additional publications as you learn of them. I do not host articles so only those hosted elsewhere are linked. Please contact the author if you want a copy of an article that is not linked.

  1. Böhringer, Martin and Richter, Alexander. (2009). Adopting Social Software to the Intranet: A Case Study on Enterprise Microblogging. Proceedings of the 9th Mensch & Computer Conference. (pp. 293-302). Berlin. September 6-9. (conference paper)

  2. Barnes, Stuart J., Böhringer, Martin, Kurze, Christian, and Stietzel, Jacqueline. (2010). Towards an understanding of social software: the case of Arinia. Proceedings of HICSS-43. Kauai, HI. January 5-8. (conference paper)

  3. Barnes, Stuart J. and Böhringer, Martin. (2009). Continuance Usage Intention in Microblogging Services: The Case of Twitter (Konferenzbeitrag). Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Verona, Italy. June 8-10. (conference paper)

  4. boyd, danah, Golder, Scott, and Lotan, Gilad. (2010). Tweet Tweet Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter. Proceedings of HICSS-43. Kauai, HI. January 5-8. (conference paper)

  5. Cheong, Mark and Lee, Vincent. (2009). Integrating web-based intelligence retrieval and decision-making from the twitter trends knowledge base. Proceeding of the 2nd ACM workshop on Social web search and mining. (pp. 1-8). (conference paper)

  6. Crawford, Kate. (Forthcoming). These Foolish Things: On Intimacy and Insignificance in Mobile Media. In Goggin and Hjorth(Eds.), Unknown. (book chapter)

  7. Crawford, Kate. (2009). Following you: Disciplines of listening in social media. Journal of Media & Culture Studies,23 (4),525-535. (journal article)

  8. Ebner, Martin and Schiefner, Mandy. (2008). Microblogging - more than fun?. In ArnedilloSánchez, Inmaculada and Isaías, Pedro(Eds.), Proceedings of IADIS Mobile Learning Conference 2008. (pp. 155 - 159). Algarve, Portugal. (conference paper)

  9. Gilpin, Dawn R.. (Forthcoming). Working the Twittersphere: How Public Relations Practitioners Use Microblogging for Professional Identity Construction. In Papacharissi, Zizi(Eds.), The Networked Self. (book chapter)

  10. Herwig, Jana. (2009). Liminality and Communitas in Social Media: The Case of Twitter. Internet: Critical. Internet Research 10.0. Milwaukee. October 7-10. (conference paper)

  11. Honeycutt, C. and Herring, Susan C.. (2009). Beyond microblogging: Conversation and collaboration via Twitter. Proceedings of the Forty-Second Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA. IEEE Press. (conference paper)

  12. Hughes, Amanda lee and Palen, Leysia. (2009). Twitter Adoption and Use in Mass Convergence and Emergency Events. Proceedings of the 2009 ISCRAM Conference. (conference paper)

  13. Jansen, Bernard, Zhang, Mimi, Sobel, Kate, and Chowdury, Abdur. (2009). Twitter Power: Tweets as Electronic Word of Mouth. Journal of ASIS&T,60(9),1-20. (journal article)

  14. Krishnamurthy, Balachander, Gill, Phillipa, and Arlitt, Martin. (2008). A few chirps about Twitter. Proceedings of the first workshop on Online social networks. (pp. 19-24). (conference paper)

  15. Makice, Kevin. (2009). Phatics and the design of community. Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. (pp. 3133-3136). (conference paper)

  16. McNely, B.. (2009). Backchannel persistence and collaborative meaning-making. Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. (pp. 297-303). Bloomington, IN. Oct. 5-7. ACM. (conference paper)

  17. Miller, Vincent. (2008). New Media, Networking, and Phatic Culture.

  18. Mishaud, Edward. (2007). Twitter: Expressions of the Whole Self. Department of Media and Communications. (mastersthesis)

  19. Naaman, Mor, Boase, Jeffery, and Lai, Chih-Hui. (2010). Is it Really About Me? Message Content in Social Awareness Streams. Proceedings of CSCW-2010. Savannah Georgia. February 6-10. (conference paper)

  20. Stankovic, M., Passant, A, and Laublet, P.. (2009). Directing Status Messages to their Audiences in Online Communities. Pre-proceedings of Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms Workshop. Torino, Italy. September 7-11. (conference paper)

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  • Starbird, Kate, Palen, Leysia, Hughes, Amanda, and Vieweg, Sarah. (2010). Chatter on The Red: What Hazards Threat Reveals about the Social Life of Microblogged Information. Proceedings of the ACM 2010 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. (CSCW 2010). (conference paper)

  • Stieger, S. and Burger, C.. (2009). Let's go formative: Continuous student ratings with Web 2.0 application Twitter. CyberPsychology & Behavior. (journal article)

  • Sutton, J., Palen, Leysia, and Shlovski, Irina. (2008). Back-Channels on the Front Lines: Emerging Use of Social Media in the 2007 Southern California Wildfires. Proceedings of the 2008 ISCRAM Conference. Washington, D.C.. (journal article)

  • Zhao, Dejin and Rosson, Mary Beth. (2009). How and why people Twitter: the role that micro-blogging plays in informal communication at work.. (conference paper)
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