Twitter Time Machine: A Multidimensional Immersive Exploration Environment for the TwitterSphere

Abstract

Twitter Time Machine Overview:

Twitter Time Machine (TTM) is an immersive environment for discursive analysis of social media crisis response through multidimensional, interactive analysis.

Utilizing curated #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) Twitter data and motivated by previous work that identified and examined interactions between sub-communities in the BLM twittersphere, the Twitter Time Machine integrates network analysis, visualization, multi-channel Twitter stream presentation and content study to create a dashboard to help researchers identify and understand the influence of marginalized counterpublics during event-triggered networked public discourse and debate.