Social Media - Developing Understanding, Infrastructure & Engagement (Social Media Enhancement)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Aberdeen
Department Name: Computing Science
Abstract
There is now a broad consensus that new forms of social data emerging from people's day-to-day activities on the Web (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) have the potential to transform the social sciences. However, there is also agreement that the current analytical techniques fall short of the standards required for academic research and policy making. Areas in which social media data have the potential to provide insights include: social order and civil society, politics and policy making, sentiment, commerce, health, information and sentiment diffusion, creativity and the arts.
In this proposal we outline the case for an enhancement to our existing funding for the RCUK dot.rural Digital Economy Hub (based at the University of Aberdeen) to support investigations into the challenges surrounding social media data and the social sciences. Aspects of the work will involve analysis of social media data in a number of contexts, including: transport disruption around the 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow), news stories about Scottish independence and UK-EU relations, island communities in the Western Isles. Guided by insights from these case studies we will:
- develop a suite of software tools to support various aspects of data analysis and curation;
- provide guidance on ethical considerations surrounding analysis of social media data; and
- deliver training workshops for social science researchers.
Finally, researchers will attend a range of festivals (food, music and science) to engage the public on this important issue.
In this proposal we outline the case for an enhancement to our existing funding for the RCUK dot.rural Digital Economy Hub (based at the University of Aberdeen) to support investigations into the challenges surrounding social media data and the social sciences. Aspects of the work will involve analysis of social media data in a number of contexts, including: transport disruption around the 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow), news stories about Scottish independence and UK-EU relations, island communities in the Western Isles. Guided by insights from these case studies we will:
- develop a suite of software tools to support various aspects of data analysis and curation;
- provide guidance on ethical considerations surrounding analysis of social media data; and
- deliver training workshops for social science researchers.
Finally, researchers will attend a range of festivals (food, music and science) to engage the public on this important issue.
Planned Impact
Key beneficiaries include:
1. Academic researchers who are considering use of social media data in their research plans.
2. Policy makers who have difficulty understanding the validity of findings from social media analytics;
3. Public transport operators and agencies who currently struggle to develop coherent social media strategies;
4. Market research organisations who would benefit from more sophisticated analysis, including perceived pros and cons, identification of claims that hold widespread support, and arguments that are found to be convincing;
5. Developers of tools for social media analytics;
6. Members of the public who may be frustrated by the ways in which social media are used by commercial organisations and agencies.
How will they benefit?
1. Through the availability of training events, ethical guidelines, case studies and data (where possible).
2. Via a series of case studies we will highlight the potential and pitfalls of social media analysis, and will share these experiences with a range of academic and non-academic audiences.
3. By harnessing the potential for social media to be used constructively both as a means to develop more effective intervention strategies and as a platform for public communication, transport operators and agencies will enhance the effectiveness of their operations as well as influencing public perception of their sector.
4. Argumentation mining software offers clear benefits to policy makers and industry sectors such as market research. At present, sentiment (or opinion) mining tools, which identify positive and negative opinions on topics of interest, enjoy widespread success. Companies use sentiment analysis over social media routinely to understand public opinion about their products. Argumentation mining would allow more sophisticated forms of analysis.
5. Through the development of new prototype tools (for argument mining, qualitative modelling, dataset annotation) we will advance the state of the art in aspects of social media analytics, and data management.
6. The public will have the opportunity to engage directly with the social media data agenda and to influence both the direction of the research and its outcomes; in particular, ethical guidelines will emerge that reflect public concerns.
1. Academic researchers who are considering use of social media data in their research plans.
2. Policy makers who have difficulty understanding the validity of findings from social media analytics;
3. Public transport operators and agencies who currently struggle to develop coherent social media strategies;
4. Market research organisations who would benefit from more sophisticated analysis, including perceived pros and cons, identification of claims that hold widespread support, and arguments that are found to be convincing;
5. Developers of tools for social media analytics;
6. Members of the public who may be frustrated by the ways in which social media are used by commercial organisations and agencies.
How will they benefit?
1. Through the availability of training events, ethical guidelines, case studies and data (where possible).
2. Via a series of case studies we will highlight the potential and pitfalls of social media analysis, and will share these experiences with a range of academic and non-academic audiences.
3. By harnessing the potential for social media to be used constructively both as a means to develop more effective intervention strategies and as a platform for public communication, transport operators and agencies will enhance the effectiveness of their operations as well as influencing public perception of their sector.
4. Argumentation mining software offers clear benefits to policy makers and industry sectors such as market research. At present, sentiment (or opinion) mining tools, which identify positive and negative opinions on topics of interest, enjoy widespread success. Companies use sentiment analysis over social media routinely to understand public opinion about their products. Argumentation mining would allow more sophisticated forms of analysis.
5. Through the development of new prototype tools (for argument mining, qualitative modelling, dataset annotation) we will advance the state of the art in aspects of social media analytics, and data management.
6. The public will have the opportunity to engage directly with the social media data agenda and to influence both the direction of the research and its outcomes; in particular, ethical guidelines will emerge that reflect public concerns.
Organisations
- University of Aberdeen (Lead Research Organisation)
- Golspie Inn (Collaboration)
- FirstGroup (Collaboration)
- Robert Gordon University (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Jilin University (Collaboration)
- Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games (Collaboration)
- Shanghai University (Collaboration)
Publications
Emele CD
(2015)
ADOVA: Anomaly Detection in Online and Virtual spAces
Corsar D
(2016)
Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes
Townsend, Leanne
(2018)
The Ethics of Online Research, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, UK
Paul Vargheese J
(2016)
Constructing Social Media Knowledge Graphs with Social Scientists
Toniolo A
(2017)
Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation. TAFA 2017
| Title | Fieldwork Visual Documentation |
| Description | Collection of photographs from Commonwealth Games 2014 as part of fieldwork activities associated with work on social media and transport disruption. |
| Type Of Art | Image |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Impact | Visual documentation of transport disruption during the Games |
| Description | The project achieved the following: Production of a number of novel open-source software tools to aid researchers (and others) with collection and analysis of social media data. These include: an interactive tool designed to guide social scientists in collecting, linking, coding and annotating social media data; software to identify and cluster points made in online political debates; code to analyse online texts to determine likely purchase intentions; a Web-based tool able to assess research methodology descriptions in papers/reports and then guide authors to ensure that their research using social media data has been sufficiently well-documented for it to be reproducible by others. Investigated the use of social media data as a means to study society - via a number of datasets/scenarios: Twitter data relating to transport disruption during the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games; Twitter data gathered during the run-up to the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014; Twitter discussions during the UK General Election campaign of 2015; Goodreads online book reviews, recommendations and purchase intentions. Findings from these studies included: - The coordinated approach to Twitter used by a consortium of transport providers during the Commonwealth Games revealed both the extent to which social media may be used to communicate cohesive, reliable information to travellers, and the trust in that information revealed by public interaction. - While economic factors appeared to play an underlying role in mobilising public opinion during the Independence Referendum and General Election, contrary to many assumptions, identity and nationalist sentiments were much more central. There also appeared to be a significant focus on discontent over rising economic inequality, a factor potentially reflected in both support for the SNP's social democratic agenda in Scotland and support for Corbyn amongst younger left leaning voters in England. Developed a set of ethical guidelines for research using social media data, for use by students, researchers, and institutional ethics committees. Issues considered within the framework include: platform-specific legal obligations, user privacy, risk, data sharing and re-use. The guidelines have already been communicated widely to audiences including the International Sociological Association, Social Research Association, and Academy of Social Sciences. Supported the development of analytical capabilities within two cohorts of social science researchers through the delivery of social media data training workshops for early career researchers (April 2016) and doctoral students (June 2016). These events mixed presentations from researchers working on the grant, with discussions (on data ethics, data provenance, and curation); participants also gained hands-on experience using a range of analytical tools. Delivered an extensive programme of public engagement events and activities that between them reached nearly 3000 members of the public across the UK. These explored a range of themes including the role of social media in political discourse, issues of trust and privacy surrounding social media data, and the role of such data in understanding and communicating transport disruption. Our experience in planning and delivering the programme of events featured in an invited ESRC blog post entitled "Public Engagement and Social Media". |
| Exploitation Route | Several outcomes have the potential to be taken forward or used by others: Open source software tools to support various aspects of social media data analytics have been made available for download - either for use or further development. For example, the summarisation and point extraction tools could be applied to responses collected from online policy consultations by government agencies. A number of social media datasets (and associated collections reflecting attitudes to social media data) have been made available; these could be used for further research or to support teaching activities. The web site http://indyref.abdn.ac.uk/ was established to visualise the topics extracted from the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum and 2015 UK General Election datasets, and to make these results more accessible to the public. Findings from the analysis of social media data in areas such as transport disruption, online political discourse, and consumer reviews can be utilised by researchers, politicians, policy makers, and business. The framework for social research ethics has already been shared with a sizeable audience, and has the potential to be adopted by a wide community - both within the social sciences and beyond. |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Retail,Security and Diplomacy,Transport,Other |
| Description | Project findings (outcomes) are already being used by a number of different stakeholders: - Results from the work analysing the Scottish independence referendum (2014) and UK General Election (2015) Twitter data have been communicated to various groups within the Scottish National Party. A paper was circulated around regional constituencies where there was significant interest in the electoral and policy implications of the findings. This was accompanied by three, very well received, invited presentations attended by party activists as well as local and national politicians. - Work undertaken with respect to the use of social media platforms (in particular, Twitter) for purposes of communication between public transport operators and passengers has been presented to employees of FirstGroup, a major public transport company, who have indicated interest in adopting 'lessons learned' into their social media practices. First in Aberdeen subsequently modified their social media practice as a result of this interaction. - Work on opinion mining and methodological provenance is being used in collaboration with Foods Standards Scotland to build a Food Sentiment Observatory - a software platform designed to investigate policy issues associated with food safety and food crime. - The social media ethics framework is already gaining traction, and has been adopted by a number of academic and professional groups. - Researchers who participated in the two social media training workshops will have benefitted through their exposure to analytical tools and methods. - A significant project activity involved engaging nearly 3000 members of the public with agendas related to social media and its use in society. While it is difficult to directly assess our impact on individuals, feedback from post-event surveys indicated that our engagements were often the first time when people began to consider issues such as personal privacy and social media. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2015 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Government, Democracy and Justice,Transport,Other |
| Impact Types | Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Participation in Defra Vision25 Environment launch event #openenvironment |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Participation in Singapore Government Foresight study on Future Urban Transportation and Mobility |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | BBC News Lab |
| Amount | £21,333 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2015 |
| End | 07/2017 |
| Description | EPSRC First Grant |
| Amount | £100,749 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/P005810/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2017 |
| End | 02/2018 |
| Description | InnovateUK End-to-End Journey Competition |
| Amount | £237,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2016 |
| End | 12/2017 |
| Description | New and Emerging Forms of Data - Policy Demonstrator Projects |
| Amount | £160,644 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/P011004/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2017 |
| End | 02/2018 |
| Description | Ways of being in a digital age: a systematic review |
| Amount | £2,774 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/P003109/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2016 |
| End | 02/2017 |
| Title | Social Media Ethics table and report |
| Description | We set up a useful chart about how to assess the ethical implications of social media research. This was accompanied by and easy to use manual |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The chart and report has been widely used by Universities and by institutions such as the Market Research Association |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_487729_en.pdf |
| Title | British Science Week School Twitter Datasets |
| Description | During British Science Week 2015, 4 Aberdeen City and Shire schools were visited and 7 workshops took place. As part of this work searches were conducted of twitter of names of schools, the tweets copied and analysed using WordItOut (http://worditout.com/) to create wordclouds that were used in presentations and as discussion starters. Tweets from up to 1 year old (1 March 2014 - 15 March 2015) were collected to make the wordclouds and common linking words and abbreviations were removed when creating the wordclouds. Each school had its own wordcloud and therefore its own search terms. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | None yet known |
| URL | http://pure.abdn.ac.uk:8080/portal/en/datasets/british-science-week-school-twitter-datasets(8d604c84... |
| Title | Effects of uncertain inferential reasoning on risks of data sharing - Researcher Survey & Responses |
| Description | Survey instrument and responses collected as part of a study into how people perceive likelihood and risk of inferring sensitive information from social media data when injecting conflicts and uncertainty. Electronic files include XLS spreadsheet of collected survey responses, and pdf versions of the online survey instrument. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | None yet known. |
| Title | Provenance of Social Media Data - Researcher Survey & Responses |
| Description | Survey instrument and responses collected as part of a study into the level of documentation (provenance) associated with projects using (analysing) social media data. Attached electronic files include XLS spreadsheet of collected survey responses, and pdf versions of the Google Forms online survey instrument. Each PDF file denotes one possible survey path that depended on the response of a participant to the question "What level of experience do you have using data from social media platforms as part of your research?" |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Too early to evaluate. |
| Title | Social Media ethics framework |
| Description | Flow chart for determining ethical problems in social media research. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To date it has been taken up by publisher (Sage) and Market Research Association; was disseminated to a number of UK Social Science researchers through social media training workshops and other events. |
| URL | http://www.dotrural.ac.uk/socialmediaresearchethics.pdf |
| Title | Social scientists user requirements for capturing and analysing social media data |
| Description | Coded transcripts from 10 semi structured interviews with social scientists working with social media data. Interview agenda focused on user requirements for capturing and analysing social media data in addition to challenges with existing approaches and methods used. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The results of this study were used to guide the development of a software tool designed to assist social scientists with capturing and analysing social media data. |
| Title | TMI - Commonwealth Games Transport |
| Description | Collection of Tweets associated with Commonwealth Games transport collected via the TMI interface developed at the University of Aberdeen. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | All impacts associated with the twitter and transport project have relied in part upon the underlying data |
| Title | Twitter Data for Scrutable Feature Sets for Stance Classification |
| Description | 607761 tweets gathered from 05.09.2014 to 22.09.2014 about the Scottish Independence Referendum. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | None to date. |
| Title | Twitter Data for UK General Election |
| Description | We have collected Twitter data during the 2016 UK General Election based on a series of keywords. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | We have used the Twitter data collected to analyse topics discussed during 2015 UK General Election and how these topics are related to those on the Scottish Independence Referendum, the data of which have been obtained from a previous project. The above results have been published in the following paper: Bone, JD., Emele, CD., Abdul, AO., Coghill, GM. & Pang, W. (2016). 'The social sciences and the web: From 'Lurking' to interdisciplinary 'Big Data' research'. Methodological Innovations |
| URL | http://pure.abdn.ac.uk:8080/portal/en/datasets/twitter-data-for-scottish-independence-referendum-and... |
| Title | el-capitan-reviews |
| Description | This dataset includes 4363 customer reviews on the Mac OS X version 10.11 (El Capitan) from 6 English speaking countries, i.e. Australia, Canada, Ireland New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States. This dataset can be used to test and evaluate the topic models and sentiment analysis methods. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | None yet known |
| Title | goodreads-reviews |
| Description | This dataset includes 30190 reviews on the most popular books listed on the Goodreads website. It also include comments made on those reviews and the social relationships among the reviewers and those who made the comments. This dataset can be used to test and evaluate the topic models and sentiment analysis methods. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | None yet known |
| Description | A Hybrid Approach for Short Text Normalisation (Shanghai) |
| Organisation | Shanghai University |
| Department | School of Management Science |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | One of the project investigators co-supervises an MSc student with an academic at Shanghai University. The student is carrying out research relevant to this project and producing research papers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof Yinbin Liu from Shanghai University is co-supervising a Master student with Dr. Chenghua Lin. This student, who is also from Shanghai University, is carrying out research relevant to this project and producing research papers. |
| Impact | This collaboration has produced a working paper entitled "A Hybrid approach to text normalisation" It is multi-disciplinary, involving the School of Management of Shanghai University. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Data Mining in Information Network - Jilin University |
| Organisation | Jilin University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr Wei Pang co-supervises an MSc student, who is carrying out research relevant to this project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner is the main supervisor of the student, and responsible for monitoring the research progress of the student. |
| Impact | One paper accepted. Not multi-disciplinary |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Interface and Golspie Inn, Sutherland |
| Organisation | Golspie Inn |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Advised Golspie Inn on a social media strategy. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Approached us to ask about cultural heritage centre |
| Impact | Construction of heritage housing. Collaboration between sociology, art history and history. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Twitter and Transport - Commonwealth Games 2014 |
| Organisation | Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Engagement with marketing/social media representatives of Commonwealth Games 2014. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Engagement via interviews. |
| Impact | Interview data. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Twitter and Transport - First Group |
| Organisation | FirstGroup |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Engagement with operations and media representatives |
| Collaborator Contribution | Engagement via interviews and presentation attendance |
| Impact | Interview data. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | User requirements for social scientists collecting and linking social media (user requirements interview study) |
| Organisation | Robert Gordon University |
| Department | Department of Communication, Marketing and Media |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have increased awareness of what tools are available for capturing social media data and what computational approaches may support and expand social scientists existing approaches towards analysing social media data. In addition we have outlined the limitations of existing tools and provided a tool to match their intial requirements for capturing and analysing social media data |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have increased awareness of what tools are available for capturing social media data and what computational approaches may support and expand social scientists existing approaches towards analysing social media data. In addition we have outlined the limitations of existing tools and provided a tool to match their intial requirements for capturing and analysing social media data |
| Impact | We have developed an open source extensible software architecture to support social scientists working with social media data. This tool was designed based on the feedback and analysis of the participants we interviewed listed on this page. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | User requirements for social scientists collecting and linking social media (user requirements interview study) |
| Organisation | Robert Gordon University |
| Department | Department of Information Management |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have increased awareness of what tools are available for capturing social media data and what computational approaches may support and expand social scientists existing approaches towards analysing social media data. In addition we have outlined the limitations of existing tools and provided a tool to match their intial requirements for capturing and analysing social media data |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have increased awareness of what tools are available for capturing social media data and what computational approaches may support and expand social scientists existing approaches towards analysing social media data. In addition we have outlined the limitations of existing tools and provided a tool to match their intial requirements for capturing and analysing social media data |
| Impact | We have developed an open source extensible software architecture to support social scientists working with social media data. This tool was designed based on the feedback and analysis of the participants we interviewed listed on this page. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | User requirements for social scientists collecting and linking social media (user requirements interview study) |
| Organisation | Robert Gordon University |
| Department | Department of Management |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have increased awareness of what tools are available for capturing social media data and what computational approaches may support and expand social scientists existing approaches towards analysing social media data. In addition we have outlined the limitations of existing tools and provided a tool to match their intial requirements for capturing and analysing social media data |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have increased awareness of what tools are available for capturing social media data and what computational approaches may support and expand social scientists existing approaches towards analysing social media data. In addition we have outlined the limitations of existing tools and provided a tool to match their intial requirements for capturing and analysing social media data |
| Impact | We have developed an open source extensible software architecture to support social scientists working with social media data. This tool was designed based on the feedback and analysis of the participants we interviewed listed on this page. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | User requirements for social scientists collecting and linking social media (user requirements interview study) |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have increased awareness of what tools are available for capturing social media data and what computational approaches may support and expand social scientists existing approaches towards analysing social media data. In addition we have outlined the limitations of existing tools and provided a tool to match their intial requirements for capturing and analysing social media data |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have increased awareness of what tools are available for capturing social media data and what computational approaches may support and expand social scientists existing approaches towards analysing social media data. In addition we have outlined the limitations of existing tools and provided a tool to match their intial requirements for capturing and analysing social media data |
| Impact | We have developed an open source extensible software architecture to support social scientists working with social media data. This tool was designed based on the feedback and analysis of the participants we interviewed listed on this page. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Title | PRISM Ontology |
| Description | Ontology (semantic knowledge base) used to support semantic annotation of descriptions of research that uses social media data. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None to date. |
| URL | https://github.com/socialmediaprov/ontologies |
| Title | Python library for Goodreads Web API (pygoodreads) |
| Description | A Python library for accessing the Web API provided by the Goodreads website. It also implements the functionality of retrieving the full text all of the reviews and comments. In addition, it can crawl the social relationships such as following/friendship among the GoodReads users. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This the first full-functional Python library wrapping the GoodReads API and has been made publicly available in GitHub . |
| URL | https://github.com/linron84/pygoodreads |
| Title | SMRDC - Social media research description checker |
| Description | An online tool to assist social scientists with creation of textual descriptions of the use of social media data in their research. Users are directed through a series of prompts to ensure that descriptions of their work include sufficient information to enhance understanding and enable reproducibility by other researchers. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None to date. |
| URL | https://github.com/socialmediaprov/smrdc |
| Title | Social media data capture tool and annotation tool |
| Description | The product is a Publish Subscribe design pattern which provides an interactive GUI to handle the publish and subscribers available to the system. A user would be able to create a topic based on a search term with multiple publishers and subscribers. Publishers in this case represent sources of social networking data. The subscribers perform actions on that data be it displaying the data in the GUI or performing analysis on that data. The system provides a default subscriber that stores and maintains the data whilst providing annotation features in the applications GUI. The GUI is a tabbed layout where each tab represents a topic (search term). This tool satisfies the primary requirement of social scientists working with social media who we interviewed as part of our ongoing research activities for this project. Existing means of capturing social media data are typically licensed and acquiring data through api access is not suitable for social scientists lacking the technical knowledge required to capture social media data. We anticipate that this tool we improve the means by which social scientists (specifically participants we interviewed for this project) are able to collect, link / code/ annotate social media data as part of their research. In addition, due to the extensible nature of the software we have developed, we anticipate that this tool will have further impact by making available more sophisticated and advanced forms of analysis, utilising machine learning techniques such as text classification for sentiment analysis. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None yet known |
| URL | https://github.com/ptravers/fsc |
| Title | Software for intention analysis |
| Description | This is a java jar file that takes an English sentence as input and outputs its intention type of 'purchase', 'inform' or 'other'. For purchase intention, the agent and object are also analysed. License: CC BY 4.0 |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None yet known. |
| URL | http://pure.abdn.ac.uk:8080/portal/en/datasets/intention-analysis-jar(06919a01-5332-4b19-bba4-73dfd4... |
| Title | Software for summarising the points made in online political debates |
| Description | The software processes text to produce 'points', which are subject-verb-(object) constructions; essentially, they are simple propositions extracted from the text. Points that are about the same topic are clustered; points that are contrastive (e.g. pro and con) are related. The points are presented to users as an easy to read summary about the information in the corpus. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None to date. |
| URL | https://github.com/charlieegan3/standpoint |
| Description | Argumentation in Social Media: The case of the Scottish referendum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards. Publicity about the talk led to media requests. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | CW MeCCSA keynote 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote address at MeCCSA (Media Communications and Cultural Studies) conference (January 7th 2016) followed by discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.meccsa2016.co.uk/keynotes.html |
| Description | Caitlin Cottrill a Guest on Talking Science, Shmu FM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Dr Caitlin Cottrill was interviewed on her work on Social Media and Transport. None known to date |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Christ Church Canterbury Centre for Culture and Community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to members of Christ Church Canterbury University; raised awareness of ethical issues for cross-disciplinary research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Connecting data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A report directed towards policy makers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.raeng.org.uk/publications/reports/connecting-data-driving-productivity |
| Description | Data + Technology = Better Transport talk by Caitlin Cottrill |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk by Dr Caitlin Cottrill about various transport projects at the University of Aberdeen (Digital Economy and Social Media) and talk from Martin Hill of the Transport Systems Catapult. Talk sparked questions and discussion. None yet known |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/7862/ |
| Description | Digital Leaders Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented and discussed social media ethics framework to local leaders interested in digital participation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | ESRC Blogpost - Public Engagement & Social Media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Holden (Public Engagement lead) was invited to write a blogpost for the ESRC blog: Public Engagement in Social Media about engagement at Festivals. None yet known |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blog.esrc.ac.uk/tag/jennifer-holden/ |
| Description | Focus group with University of Aberdeen researchers in social media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussed social media ethics framework with researchers at the University of Aberdeen to raise awareness of ethical issues surrounding social media data analytics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | GIS Research UK (GISRUK) conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation at a national conference. Resulting conversations will lead to project improvements. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://leeds.gisruk.org/ |
| Description | Guest Lecture by Dr Jeff Pan at the in the Master Course on 'Qualitative Methods' in the School of Social Science at the Unviersity of Aberdeen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Guest Lecture by Dr Jeff Pan (titled 'Constructing Social Media Knowledge Graphs with Social Scientists') at the in the Master Course on 'Qualitative Methods' in the School of Social Science at the Unviersity of Aberdeen, which sparked detailed discussions on how knowledge graphs can be useful for social scientists. Many of the postgraduate students are interested in the opportunity of working with us during their master projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Huntly Hairst 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | At a stall in the Huntly Mart during the Sunday of the Huntly Hairst researchers ran a public engagement activity related to using twitter to examine online political arguments and remote streaming of cultural events. This was visited by around 200 attendees of all ages at the event. Too early to tell. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | IAMCR 2015 Conference Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk on risk perception in social media data use and re-use including information on the public engagement approach was given in the "Ethics of Digital Communication Session" at the International Association of Media and Communication Research in Montreal, Canada, 13th July 2015. The talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards, including via email and requests for more information on the public engagement approach taken. After the talk several participants reported that they would be incorporating more public engagement activities in their academic work (in Canada, Mexico, Germany and Brazil). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | IATBR Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at an international conference, with approx. 30 people in the audience; questions and further conversations emerged |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.iatbr2015.org.uk/index.php/iatbr/iatbr2015 |
| Description | Invited presentations to SNP constituency associations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Three invited presentations to Scottish national party constituency associations - 17th August; 4th and 21st September 2016. Led to offer from SNP Member of Scottish Parliament to collaborate on further research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Jennifer Holden presented at PechaKucha Aberdeen November 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Holden presented a PechaKucha (20 slides of 20 seconds each) about perception of risk related to digital hazards at the Belmont Filmhouse Cinema, Aberdeen. Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards. None yet known |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.pechakucha.org/cities/aberdeen/events/55d1e232bfb6ff6966000004 |
| Description | Lodestar Festival Public Engagement 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Leanne Townsend, Jennifer Holden and Amy Johnston participated in the Lodestar Festival (attended by approx 5000 people) in Cambridgeshire 4-6 September 2015. We were the first public engagement with research activity ever at the Festival. We had a space in the Village Green area hosting Sidestalls of Social Meda, three activities designed to engage people with issues around social media use for research, by industry, and other organisations alongside issues of privacy, trust and risk. The activities sparked questions and discussion amongst festival attendees. None yet known |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | MeCCSA Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop with fellow academics on social media ethics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Meccsa 2016 presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk followed by questions and discussion on "Online communication practices by three Christian groups in Aberdeen" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | New Directions in Humanities Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented project to academics (approx 12) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | On the use of social media in transport and its potential to complement traffic sensor data in identifying road traffic congestion (UTSG2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at an international conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.utsg.net/web/uploads/UTSG%2049th%20Annual%20Conference.pdf |
| Description | One-Day NLP/NLG Workshop at the University of Aberdeen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This one-day NLP/NLG workshop brings together researchers from both academia and industry with an aim to highlight recent work on natural language processing and generation. There were 6 invited speakers (from across the UK and Europe) and around 30 participants attended the workshop, which stimulates discussions, collaborations, and networking afterwords. Workshop participants were highly interested in the talks and the social media research from Aberdeen. The workshop organiser Dr Chenghua Lin has also been invited by some participants to give talks at Manchester University and Aston University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/chenghua.lin/pages/ |
| Description | Online communication practices presentation (MeCCSA 2016) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk followed by discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Orkney International Science Festival Family Fun Day 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | David Corsar and Paul Gault hosted a stand at the Orkney International Science Festival Family Fun Day. The stand involved two activities designed to engage the public with social media use by different groups such as academics and engage with the research process. The activities sparked questions and discussion. None yet known |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Orkney Science Festival Family Fun Day 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We had a stall at the Orkney Science Festival Family Fun Day talking about Social Media twitter use for investigating transport disruption during the Commonwealth Games and smart logistics for rural food businesses. We interacted with around 100 people throughout the day mostly families. Too early to report, but invited back to participate in 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Participated in public defence of thesis about digital margins at University of Groningen. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Engaged in debate about social media ethics during public defence of thesis about digital margins at University of Groningen. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Participation in Letters to a Pre-Scientist Activity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Holden participated in the Letters to a Pre-Scientist activity for school year 2015-2016. Letters to a Pre-Scientist is a collaboration between educators and scientists who want to show school children a more personal view of science, beyond their typical classroom lessons. This involved exchanging letters with a student (and their class) in Los Angeles. Letters to a pre-scientist is focussed on schools in deprived areas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016 |
| Description | Participation in May Festival 2015 Hall of Mayhem |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Researchers Xiwu Han and Liang Chen along with Amy Johnston participated in the Hall of Mayhem at the University of Aberdeen's May Festival (31 May 2015). Activities included illustrating and explaining using twitter to tell the story of the festival, fishing for tweets and sentiment analysis. This drop in activity sparked questions and discussions from participants of all ages. None yet known |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation at Curtin University (Australia): Big Data, Social Media & Transport |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The presentation was part of the 'Urbanet' series run at Curtin University, and has resulted in ongoing engagement about potential research collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation at the Human-Like Computing Machine Intelligence Workshop (MI20-HLC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation (Helping Social Scientists to Collect and Understand Social Media Data) focused on how our work on this project demonstrates how manual construction of knowledge graphs with social scientists can be further supported using more automated tools for analysis and presentation of data. Demonstrated how our research represents a novel application of human like computing, utilising social scientists expertise in areas which are initially challenging for applying more automated analytical tools and how the knowledge graph approach offers a middle ground between disciplines for deriving greater insights into topics discussed on social media. PAPER: http://mi20-hlc.doc.ic.ac.uk/short_presentations/Pan.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://mi20-hlc.doc.ic.ac.uk/programme.html |
| Description | Presentation at the Sustainable Urban Mobilty Workshop, Edinburgh Napier University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at an international workshop. Resulting conversations will lead to project improvements |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation by Dr Caitlin Cottrill at Convening on Urban Data April 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk given by Dr Caitlin D Cottrill at the Convening on Urban Data event at the University Chicago, the talk "Privacy and Urban Sensing" was followed by questions and discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.urbanccd.org/urbandataconven |
| Description | Presentation by Prof Pete Edwards at Convening on Urban Data Science April 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Pete Edwards gave a talk "Who? What? How? Why? Four Questions for Urban Sensing and The IoT" at Convening on Urban Data at University Chicago. The talk drew on research at the University of Aberdeen and forthcoming work. The talk was followed by questions and discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.urbanccd.org/urbandataconven |
| Description | Presentation of social media ethics framework to International Sociological Association Conference, Vienna |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We presented information in several workshops at one of the largest international sociological gatherings in the world. There were approximately 20-50 people at each of the workshops where we presented. Many people asked for our social media ethics framework leaflet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation to Permanent Secretary for the DfT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to DfT staff and internal partners. Discussions led to interest and potential future engagement by DfT |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.abdn.ac.uk/ctr/news/8680/ |
| Description | Presentation to Siemens/Aberdeen City Council SmartCities Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Pete Edwards gave a talk on Smart Cities research to the day arranged by Siemens Consultancy for Aberdeen City Council, this was followed by questions, discussion and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Press Release - Social Media Enhancement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The ESRC Social Media Enhancement award to the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub formed a substantial part of a press release. None yet known |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-events-and-publications/news/news-items/social-media-enhancements-to-rcuk... |
| Description | Press release: Tweeting Traffic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Provided a mechanism to provide information on the project None to date |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/6544/ |
| Description | Prof Pete Edwards talk ESRC/ICCSSP Underpinning the development data revolution: Social Media Data and Research in London January 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Pete Edwards gave a talk at the Underpinning the development data revolution: Social Media Data and Research event in London to researchers from India and the UK. The talk was used to frame discussions concerning potential future research collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Royal Society's Accessing the evidence: scientists in Westminster reception (Wei Pang) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Met Kirsty Blackman MP in the House of Commons; established initial contact with her; described our research on the Social Media project and discussed future possible opportunities for working together. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | School visit Greenbrae Primary P7 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Workshop delivered to 22 P7 (aged 10-12 years) children and 2 teachers. In the 75 minute sessions issues covered include what research is, interdisciplinarity, social media, provenance, trust, ethics, technical issues and the children became researchers. The activities sparked questions, discussion and further deeper thinking by the pupils. Verbal and written feedback from the pupils and teachers was very good. The lead teacher expressed an interest in further interactions. Pupils reported that they had learnt more about science, social media and their views on what science is had broadened. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | School visit Skene Square P5/6 and P6 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Workshop delivered to 24 P6 (aged 9-11 years) children and their teacher and to 23 P5/6 (aged 8-11 years) children and 2 teachers. In the 90 minute sessions issues covered include what research is, interdisciplinarity, social media, provenance, trust, ethics, technical issues and the children became researchers. Issues around remote observation of the day's solar eclipse were covered. The activities sparked questions, discussion and further deeper thinking by the pupils. After the talks discussions were held with teachers about continuing involvement and CPD opportunities including SCRATCH and other programming activities. All verbal and written evaluations from teachers and pupils were very positive, with pupils enjoying the interactive elements, reported learning more about social media, science and how research works and happen. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | School visit Westpark Primary P5/6M and S |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Two 1h20 workshops were delivered to two P5/6 classes (ages 9-11 years), a total of 46 pupils and 4 teachers. This included introduction to two projects, what university was like, interdisciplinarity and ways of working. Activities included individual, group and whole class work with lots of questions and discussion. Activities were bespoke designed for the classes fitting into previous work on ICT safety and what is a scientist. After the talk teachers expressed interest in further visits and interactions. Evaluations from pupils (written and verbal) indicate that their thinking of what science and scientists are has broadened and they are interested in finding out more. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | School visit to Kingswells P7 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Workshop delivered to two P7 (aged 10-12 years) classes (total of 41 children) and 3 teachers. In the 945 minute sessions issues covered include what research is, interdisciplinarity, social media, provenance, trust, ethics, technical issues and the children became researchers. The activities sparked questions, discussion and further deeper thinking by the pupils. All verbal and written evaluations from teachers and pupils were very positive, with pupils enjoying the interactive elements, reported learning more about social media, science and how research works and happen. Potential return visits were discussed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Science is for Everyone 18 May 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Holden spoke at the Science is for Everyone organised by Aberdeen Science Grrl. The talk spoke about science careers and was followed by question and answers sparking discussions about careers in science, university options and being a female in science. None yet known. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/science-is-for-everyone-science-grrl-careers-night-tickets-1687342888... |
| Description | Scientist on the Stage - National Museum of Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Brief talk by Jennifer Holden in the Grand Gallery (15 minutes) sparked questions and discussion afterwards. None yet known |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.nms.ac.uk/media/641703/eisf_15_dailyleaflets_single-a5-9th-13th_hr.pdf |
| Description | Semantic information ecosystems: Don't take your data out of context! |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A departmental seminar at the University of Leeds including an overview of several projects from our research group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Side Stalls of Social Media, Einstein's Garden, Green Man Festival 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | At the established Einstein's Garden science programming strand at the Green Man Festival (20,000 capacity, 4 day event, Brecon Beacons) the grant had a marquee containing three public engagement activities. Over the 4 days the team (3 researchers, 1 assistant) interacted with over 1200 people of all ages around issues of social media data use, re-use, trust and privacy. The three activities allowed participants to fish for twitter data to see how academic researchers investigate diverse topics such as travel disruption at major sporting events, UK-EU relations and the Scottish Independence Referendum. At the Social Media Spying Pool people discovered how national security agencies used fake social media accounts to investigate people. They could add to the Treasure Chest of gold coins search terms that they would use on social media sites and tell the story of the Green Man Festival 2014. Too early to tell. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.greenman.net/artist/dotrural-digital-economy-hub |
| Description | Social Media Data workshop for Early Career Researchers April 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We designed and delivered a two day training workshop on social media data research for early career researchers across the UK. The talks and practicals were based on real life experiences from the ESRC Social Media Enhancement. Attendees reported that they found the workshop really useful and are keen to develop the skills and apply them in their own work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Social Media Data workshop for PhD students June 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | We designed and delivered a two day training workshop on social media data research for PhD students from across the UK. The talks and practicals were based on real life experiences from the ESRC Social Media Enhancement. Attendees reported that they found the workshop really useful and are keen to develop the skills and apply them in their own work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Social Media Ethics Workshop - Aberdeen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brought together experts to construct and test a social media ethics framework. Participants included social media experts from cultural studies, sociology, politics and ESRC representatives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Social Media Ethics Workshop - London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Described social media ethics framework at Social Research Association/Academy of Social Science and sought feedback. Raised awareness of this research outcome with relevant organisations. Our framework (http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_487729_en.pdf) was subsequently adopted by the Association for Market Researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Social Media Hubs Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Collaborators from 3 social media hubs met to discuss work and potential emerging engagement with various projects. Follow up discussion of related topics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Social Media Summit (London, May 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participation in Social Media for Business Summit held at Swiss Re Tower, City of London - May 10, 2017. Presentation to group of business representatives on social media research conducted by dot.rural Hub and ESRC funded social media enhancement. Also participated in a wider debate during the event on trust/veracity issues surrounding social media content. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Social Media Workshop - Transport for New South Wales |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given on Social Media and Transport to Transport for New South Wales (Australia). Discussions led to interest and potential future engagement by TfNSW. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Social Media talk at Edinburgh International Science Festival 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Social Media: Spying?Sentiment?Source of Data? was an event including talks, Q&A and demos. The four talks from Jennifer Holden, Paul Gault, David Emele and Chenghua Lin sparked many indepth questions and discussion afterwards. Positive reactions on the talks were received via twitter. None yet known. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/social-media-spying-sentiment-source-of-data |
| Description | Social Media: Who are we talking to talk by Leanne Townsend |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk by Leanne Townsend focussed on ESRC Social Media project work sparked questions and discussion afterwards. None yet known |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/7867/ |
| Description | Sporting triumphs, transport tribulations and twitter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Project presentation resulted in discussion and engagement. None yet known. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/engage/public/festival-of-social-science-205.php |
| Description | T&T at Aberdeen PechaKucha |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation where event spectators were invited to ask questions during the break and after the event, this involved follow up discussion of related topics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Technology & Data Driven Transport Presentation - Manila |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Over 200 people attended the presentation, which was organised by the British Embassy Manila, and it has resulted in ongoing discussion regarding potential further engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Twitter & Transport UTSG Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation about Twitter & Transport project followed by discssion and has resulted in follow-on engagement from other attendees |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Twitter and Transport - University of Aberdeen May Festival 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Festival-goers were invited to engage with researchers via a variety of activities designed to stimulate interest and raise questions. None to date |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | http://indyref.abdn.ac.uk/ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Website containing findings from project, visualisations and real-time information, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016 |
| URL | http://indyref.abdn.ac.uk/ |