Research Tools II: Twitter-Based Research (Thread, Google Docs, Maps)
by remysaverem
This is an era of DIY.
This is an era in which we are — and must be — the media.
This is an era in which we are — and must be — the documentarians, the historians, the curators of information.
Increasingly, and of necessity, we are using Twitter as means of quickly conveying and sharing literally life-and-death information.
Tragically, a content alert applies.
Here are some resources for us.
This is a map that interweaves Twitter data on police violence with geolocation mapping.
(2) https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1266752393556918273
This is the Twitter thread that started the various projects of compiling police violence videos into one archive.
(3) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YmZeSxpz52qT-10tkCjWOwOGkQqle7Wd1P7ZM1wMW0E/edit#gid=0
This is the Google document that compiles in a linear, searchable fashion that data from (2).
(4) https://maminian.github.io/brutality-map/?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_4_6_2018_COPY_01)
This is the visualization map, which uses size of dots to indicate the number of cases in a region, based on the above data.
As always, BoopTroopEugene is here for any research you conduct.
We will be glad and honored to share what you find.
We love you.
— Remy.
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