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| Journalists following other journalists on Twitter. |
In the network
society our communication has fundamentally changed. We are in
contact with people when we know an e-mail address, Twitter or
Facebook name, or LinkedIn handle, even if we never have met these
persons in real time. In the more traditional society of the past
century our contacts were limited to people we know face to face
from the circle of family, neighbors, colleagues, and friends. Now
our contacts are in a huge network of connected nodes; some we know
face to face, some we only mail or follow on Twitter, some are
friends of friends etc. The patterns of communication in such
networks are interesting to study. Social network analysis has become
a fountain of empirical knowledge, not only for social scientist but
also for datajournalists, because there is a enormous amount of data
free available and the tools for the analysis are becoming more easy
to handle.
Published on Memeburn:http://memeburn.com/2011/12/13-great-social-data-tools-for-journalists/
Published on Memeburn:http://memeburn.com/2011/12/13-great-social-data-tools-for-journalists/
