#NoDAPL: Tweeting the Dakota Access Pipeline protest by Will Corban - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
#NoDAPL: Tweeting the Dakota Access Pipeline protest by Will Corban - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
#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
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/
Word Cloud
- Organizes the Twitter conversation
- Reveals core concerns of participants
- Connects #NoDAPL to related issues
- Highlights primary focus on indigenous rights
Word Cloud
Social Network Analysis
Social Network Analysis
- Shows popular and influential users
- Creates groups based on Twitter conversations
- Connects retweets and mentions with their “owners”
Social Network Analysis
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
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.