#NoDAPL: Tweeting the Dakota Access Pipeline protest by Will Corban - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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#NoDAPL: Tweeting the Dakota Access Pipeline protest by Will Corban Spring 2017 Background The planned Dakota Access Pipeline would carry shale oil from northern North Dakota to Illinois The pipelines route runs through land


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#NoDAPL: Tweeting the Dakota Access Pipeline protest

by Will Corban Spring 2017

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Background

  • The planned Dakota Access

Pipeline would carry shale oil from northern North Dakota to Illinois

  • The pipeline’s route runs

through land belonging to indigenous people

  • Protesters camped at Standing

Rock from April 2016 to February 22, 2017 when they were forcibly removed

  • Protests involved indigenous

rights, environmental issues, and energy use

Photo by Marlene Tsosie Bad Warrior. From http://blogs.jccc.edu/campusledger/2016/10/07/pipeline-protests-at-standing-rock-continue/

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Word Cloud

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  • Organizes the Twitter conversation
  • Reveals core concerns of participants
  • Connects #NoDAPL to related issues
  • Highlights primary focus on indigenous rights

Word Cloud

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Social Network Analysis

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Social Network Analysis

  • Shows popular and influential users
  • Creates groups based on Twitter conversations
  • Connects retweets and mentions with their “owners”
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Social Network Analysis

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The Filter Bubble

Eli Pariser

  • Separates groups online based on beliefs
  • Creates self-curated “echo chamber” that

mirrors one’s own ideas

  • Blocks out opposing views and alternate

perspectives

  • Reduces diversity of online community and

stifles discussion

Theory

A New Algorithmic Identity

John Cheney-Lippold

  • Sorts internet users based on habits
  • Produces new results from prior

searches/interactions

  • Dictates how the internet and search

engines present information

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Works Cited

Cheney-Lippold, John. “A New Algorithmic Identity: Soft Biopolitics and the Modulation of Control.” Theory, Culture & Society 28, no. 6 (2011) : 164-181. “Dakota Pipeline: What’s behind the controversy?,” US & Canada, BBC News, accessed April 29, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37863955 Pariser, Eli. “Beware of online ‘filter bubbles.’” Presentation at Ted2011: Invention and Consequence, Long Beach, CA, March 3, 2011.