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The International Latina/o Studies
Conference: Imagining the Past, Present, and Future took place from
July 17 until July 19, 2014. It served as the founding conference for what will become the official organization of Latina/o Studies (official name TBD).
Organizers
for the conference proposed the hashtag #lschi2014 to social media users and I
have made an archive of tweets using this hashtag. I compiled them using Martin
Hawksey's TAGS, which uses Twitter's API, and they can be accessed in this
.XLSX document posted on figshare (DOWNLOAD ARCHIVE HERE). Some tweets are missing text but their
totality can be obtained by visiting the link found in the column for "status_url." The dataset is available with a Creative
Commons-Attribution license (CC-BY) for academic research and educational use.
Researchers
making use of the archive should keep in mind that Twitter's API is not 100%
reliable because it
over-represents more "central" users as it obfuscates peripheral
activity. Similarly, some users surely tweeted about the conference without
using #lschi2014, hence this archive should not be taken as an infallible
source for all Twitter activity associated with the conference. For a more
expansive take on social media activity during the conference, researchers
should also look into hashtag use on tumblr, Instagram, and Facebook, among
other social network sites. The dataset might require further refining.
Interesting
bit: users tweeted the conference hashtag 3,218 times during the three days
(July 17-19) of the conference.
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