Dear AoIRists, My co-editors and I are delighted to launch our edited collection Twitter and Society, featuring the work of many of AoIR's leading lights. We'll be launching the book in a Roundtable session on Saturday 26 Oct., 1.30 p.m., in room Confluence B, with many of the authors and editors in attendance and outlining their contributions to the book. Please join us to find out more! There's also a @twitsocbook Twitter account which will live-tweet the launch for those of you who can't be there in person. Below are the full details for the book - add it to your wishlists, gift it to someone for Christmas, or otherwise pass on the news to your friends and colleagues: Twitter and Society Edited by Katrin Weller, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Merja Mahrt & Cornelius Puschmann PB | US$ 42.95 £ 26.00 € 33.00 SFR 40.00 | 978-1-4331-2169-2 HC | US$ 149.95 £ 92.00 € 115.35 SFR 139.00 | 978-1-4331-2170-8 Digital Formations; vol.89 Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has evolved from a niche service to a mass phenomenon; it has become instrumental for everyday communication as well as for political debates, crisis communication, marketing, and cultural participation. But the basic idea behind it has stayed the same: users may post short messages (tweets) of up to 140 characters and follow the updates posted by other users. Drawing on the experience of leading international Twitter researchers from a variety of disciplines and contexts, this is the first book to document the various notions and concepts of Twitter communication, and provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of current research into the uses of Twitter across a wide range of disciplines. It also presents methods for analyzing Twitter data and outlines their practical application in different research contexts. Contents: Foreword: Debanalising Twitter: The Transformation of an Object of Study Richard Rogers Twitter and Society: An Introduction Katrin Weller, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Merja Mahrt, & Cornelius Puschmann 1 Twitter and the Rise of Personal Publics Jan-Hinrik Schmidt 2 Structural Layers of Communication on Twitter Axel Bruns & Hallvard Moe 3 Structure of Twitter: Social and Technical Alexander Halavais 4 The Politics of Twitter Data Cornelius Puschmann & Jean Burgess 5 Data Collection on Twitter Devin Gaffney & Cornelius Puschmann 6 Metrics for Understanding Communication on Twitter Axel Bruns & Stefan Stieglitz 7 Sentiment Analysis and Time Series with Twitter Mike Thelwall 8 Computer-Assisted Content Analysis of Twitter Data Jessica Einspänner, Mark Dang-Anh, & Caja Thimm 9 Ethnographic and Qualitative Research on Twitter Alice E. Marwick 10 Legal Questions of Twitter Research Michael Beurskens 11 From #FollowFriday to YOLO: Exploring the Cultural Salience of Twitter Memes Alex Leavitt 12 Twitter and Geographical Location Rowan Wilken 13 Privacy on Twitter, Twitter on Privacy Michael Zimmer & Nicholas Proferes 14 Automated Twitter Accounts Miranda Mowbray 15 Information Retrieval for Twitter Data Ke Tao, Claudia Hauff, Fabian Abel, & Geert-Jan Houben 16 Documenting Contemporary Society by Preserving Relevant Information from Twitter Thomas Risse, Wim Peters, Pierre Senellart, & Diana Maynard 17 The Perils and Pleasures of Tweeting with Fans Nancy Baym 18 Tweeting about the Telly: Live TV, Audiences, and Social Media Stephen Harrington 19 Following the Yellow Jersey: Tweeting the Tour de France Tim Highfield 20 Twitter and Sports: Football Fandom in Emerging and Established Markets Axel Bruns, Katrin Weller, & Stephen Harrington 21 Public Enterprise-Related Communication and Its Impact on Social Media Issue Management Stefan Stieglitz & Nina Krüger 22 Twitter, Brands, and User Engagement Tanya Nitins & Jean Burgess 23 Political Discourses on Twitter: Networking Topics, Objects, and People Axel Maireder & Julian Ausserhofer 24 Twitter in Politics and Elections: Insights from Scandinavia Anders Olof Larsson & Hallvard Moe 25 The Gift of the Gab: Retweet Cartels and Gift Economies on Twitter Johannes Paßmann, Thomas Boeschoten, & Mirko Tobias Schäfer 26 The Use of Twitter by Professional Journalists: Results of a Newsroom Survey in Germany Christoph Neuberger, Hanna Jo vom Hofe, & Christian Nuernbergk 27 Twitter as an Ambient News Network Alfred Hermida 28 Crisis Communication in Natural Disasters: The Queensland Floods and Christchurch Earthquakes Axel Bruns & Jean Burgess 29 Twitpic-ing the Riots: Analysing Images Shared on Twitter during the 2011 U.K. Riots Farida Vis, Simon Faulkner, Katy Parry, Yana Manyukhina, & Lisa Evans Twitter in Academia 30 Twitter in Scholarly Communication Merja Mahrt, Katrin Weller, & Isabella Peters 31 How Useful Is Twitter for Learning in Massive Communities? An Analysis of Two MOOCs Timo van Treeck & Martin Ebner Epilogue: Why Study Twitter? Cornelius Puschmann, Axel Bruns, Merja Mahrt, Katrin Weller, and Jean Burgess -- Dr Axel Bruns http://snurb.info/ - http://mappingonlinepublics.net/ http://produsage.org/ - http://www.amazon.com/author/axel.bruns/ ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation http://cci.edu.au/ Associate Professor, Media & Communication a.bruns@qut.edu.au Creative Industries Faculty, Z1-515, CIP Twitter: @snurb_dot_info Queensland University of Technology +61 7 31385548 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J