Left and Right Retweets! Curation Logics During Black History Month

Yiran Duan; Jeff Hemsley; Alexander Owen Smith; LaVerne Gray

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-28032-0_11

Left and Right Retweets! Curation Logics During Black History Month

Yiran Duan, Jeff Hemsley, Alexander Owen Smith, LaVerne Gray

School of Information Studies

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Abstract

This study investigates what information that was spread the most on Twitter regarding #BlackLivesMatter during the Black History Month of February 2022. We distinguished political affiliation through a series of interpretations of network structure and content. In doing so, we observed different political groups offering unique curated information flows on Twitter. Using qualitative coding, our findings confirmed that opinion leaders affiliated with different political groups or movements tend to curate different kinds of messages. Our findings also show that opinion leaders on the political left discuss #BlackLivesMatter in a clear supportive way towards the movement, while the ones on the political right describe the movement in a more provocative way. Further, we observed that opinion leaders in the political right group have more dense connections than the political left group. This work contributes to the bodies of literature using the theory of curated logics, the influence of opinion leaders, viral information, and the empirical work around #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Information for a Better World
Subtitle of host publication	Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity - 18th International Conference, iConference 2023, Proceedings
Editors	Isaac Sserwanga, Anne Goulding, Heather Moulaison-Sandy, Jia Tina Du, António Lucas Soares, Viviane Hessami, Rebecca D. Frank
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	131-142
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783031280313
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28032-0_11
State	Published - 2023
Event	18th International Conference on Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity, iConference 2023 - Virtual, Online Duration: Mar 13 2023 → Mar 17 2023

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	13972 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	18th International Conference on Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity, iConference 2023
City	Virtual, Online
Period	3/13/23 → 3/17/23

Keywords

Black History Month
BlackLivesMatter
Curation logics
Twitter
Virality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science(all)

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Duan, Y., Hemsley, J., Smith, A. O., & Gray, L. (2023). Left and Right Retweets! Curation Logics During Black History Month. In I. Sserwanga, A. Goulding, H. Moulaison-Sandy, J. T. Du, A. L. Soares, V. Hessami, & R. D. Frank (Eds.), Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity - 18th International Conference, iConference 2023, Proceedings (pp. 131-142). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13972 LNCS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28032-0_11

Left and Right Retweets! Curation Logics During Black History Month. / Duan, Yiran; Hemsley, Jeff; Smith, Alexander Owen et al.
Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity - 18th International Conference, iConference 2023, Proceedings. ed. / Isaac Sserwanga; Anne Goulding; Heather Moulaison-Sandy; Jia Tina Du; António Lucas Soares; Viviane Hessami; Rebecca D. Frank. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. p. 131-142 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13972 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Entry/Poem › Conference contribution

Duan, Y, Hemsley, J, Smith, AO & Gray, L 2023, Left and Right Retweets! Curation Logics During Black History Month. in I Sserwanga, A Goulding, H Moulaison-Sandy, JT Du, AL Soares, V Hessami & RD Frank (eds), Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity - 18th International Conference, iConference 2023, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 13972 LNCS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 131-142, 18th International Conference on Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity, iConference 2023, Virtual, Online, 3/13/23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28032-0_11

Duan Y, Hemsley J, Smith AO, Gray L. Left and Right Retweets! Curation Logics During Black History Month. In Sserwanga I, Goulding A, Moulaison-Sandy H, Du JT, Soares AL, Hessami V, Frank RD, editors, Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity - 18th International Conference, iConference 2023, Proceedings. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2023. p. 131-142. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28032-0_11

Duan, Yiran ; Hemsley, Jeff ; Smith, Alexander Owen et al. / Left and Right Retweets! Curation Logics During Black History Month. Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity - 18th International Conference, iConference 2023, Proceedings. editor / Isaac Sserwanga ; Anne Goulding ; Heather Moulaison-Sandy ; Jia Tina Du ; António Lucas Soares ; Viviane Hessami ; Rebecca D. Frank. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. pp. 131-142 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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