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Type of Publication: | Journal article |
Author: | Stieger, Stefan; Swami, Viren |
Year of publication: | 2014 |
Published in: | Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology ; 65 (2014), 7. - pp. 1409-1415. - ISSN 0002-8231. - eISSN 1097-4571 |
DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.23097 |
Summary: |
On February 15, 2013, asteroid 2012 DA14 passed close to Earth during its flyby. We used this opportunity to analyze how the event affected the social-networking community of Twitter. We analyzed whether the flyby of the asteroid elicited more tweets about the asteroid close to the asteroid's trajectory compared to the neutral search term NASA. A spatio-temporal analysis of tweets about NASA revealed a natural movement of the geographical mean from east to west, mirroring the Sun's path through the sky. For the geolocation of users tweeting about the asteroid, this east-west movement changed direction, mirroring the asteroid's trajectory (from south-east to north-west) as soon as the asteroid was potentially visible from Earth. This effect appears to represent emotionally contagious flocking behavior among Twitter users influenced by the position of the asteroid itself.
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Subject (DDC): | 150 Psychology |
Keywords: | Internet, maps (graphic representation), astronomy |
Bibliography of Konstanz: | Yes |
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STIEGER, Stefan, Viren SWAMI, 2014. Twitter users' interest in asteroid 2012 DA14 mirrored the asteroid's trajectory during its Earth flyby. In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 65(7), pp. 1409-1415. ISSN 0002-8231. eISSN 1097-4571. Available under: doi: 10.1002/asi.23097
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