Richard Rogers: Future Social Science On and With Digital Media

[niftyc]

So the iran election was called the twitter revolution. Looks like twitter benefited far more than Iranians.

Rogers says: Is it possible to turn twitter into a storytelling machine that is, a machine that can tell us what is happening on the ground as well as what is happening in social media? Lets capture the top 3 RTs with the hashtag #iranelection. And visualize them chronologically. It works.

You see the heat of the moment. You see, in some sense, the ground.

Nice.