I’m working on a paper that maps the archaeological blogosphere. I thought this morning it might be good to take a quick detour into the Twitterverse.
Behold!
‘archaeology’ on twitter
Here we have every twitter username, connected by referring to each other in a tweet. There’s a seriously strong spine of tweeting, but it doesn’t make for a unified graph. The folks keeping this clump all together, measured by betweeness centrality:
pompeiiapp
arqueologiabcn
herculaneumapp
romanheritage
openaccessarch
cmount1
groovyhistorian
lornarichardson
top replied-to
hotrodngold
raymondsnoddy
colesprouse
1014retold
janell_elise
yorksarch
holleyalex
bonesbehaviours
uclu
illustreets
Top URLS:
http://bit.ly/1husSFB
http://phy.so/316076983
http://bit.ly/1sqHFu0
http://beasiswaindo.com/1796
https://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/conferences/current/babao2014/
http://wanderinggypsyvoyager.blogspot.com/2014/04/archaeology-two-day-search.html?spref=tw
http://news.sciencemag.org/archaeology/2014/04/did-europeans-get-fat-neandertals
http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/HadriansWall
http://ift.tt/PWRYrf
Top hashtags:
archaeology 325
Pompeii 90
fresco 90
Archaeology 77
Herculaneum 40
Israel 24
nowplaying 20
roman 18
newslocker 16
Roman 14
Archeology
Let’s look at american archeology – as signified by the dropped ‘e’.
An awful lot more fragmented – less popular consciousness of archaeology-as-a-community?
Top by betweeness centrality – the ones who hold this together:
illumynous
archeologynow
youtube
heritagedaily
algenpfleger
riosallier
david328124
ogurek3
gold248131
leafenthusiast
Top urls:
http://ift.tt/1hN75Lp
http://wp.me/p4jAM9-1cZ
http://bit.ly/1qdaHLD
http://newszap.com
http://www.valencia953fm.com.ve
http://bit.ly/PS6hg4
http://goo.gl/fb/MfmNZ
http://goo.gl/fb/IfRnh
Top hashtags:
archeology
history
rome
ancient
easterisland
mystery
easter
slave
esoteric
egypt
Top replied-to
atheistlauren
nofaith313
faraishah
sebpatrick
swbts
thebiblestrue
animal
christofpierson
simba_83
andystacey
#Blogarch on twitter
And now, the archaeologists themselves, as indicated by #blogarch
We talk to ourselves – but with the nature of the hashtag, I suppose that’s to be expected?
Top by betweeness centrality
openaccessarch
drspacejunk
bonesdonotlie
archeowebby
drkillgrove
fieldofwork
archaeo_girl
brennawalks
ejarchaeology
yagumboya
top urls
http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2014/03/space-age-archaeology-and-future-do-i.html?spref=tw
http://bit.ly/1gBkNin
http://campusarch.msu.edu/?p=2782
http://wp.me/p36umf-cW
http://www.poweredbyosteons.org/2014/03/blogging-bioarchaeology-where-do-we-go.html#.Uzm7zM8kJUw.twitter
http://ow.ly/3iVK4f
http://wp.me/p3Kfwu-cb
http://bit.ly/PCdEIE
http://wp.me/p1rKjz-V2
http://diggin-it-archaeology.blogspot.com/2014/04/my-future-in-blogging-archaeology.html
Top hashtags
blogarch
BlogArch
archaeology
saa2014
SAA2014
blogging
CRMArch
newslocker
crmarch
Top replied to
electricarchaeo (yay me!)
Top mentioned:
drspacejunk
bonesdonotlie
fieldofwork
openaccessarch
archeowebby
jsatgra
cmount1
archaeo_girl
capmsu
drkillgrove
Put them altogether now…
And now, we put them altogether to get ‘archaeology’ on the twitterverse today:
Visually, it’s apparent that the #blogarch crew are the ones tying together the wider twitter worlds of archaeology & archeology, thought it’s still pretty fragmented. There’re 460 folks in this graph.
Top by betweeness centrality:
| openaccessarch |
| drspacejunk |
| bonesdonotlie |
| archeowebby |
| drkillgrove |
| fieldofwork |
| jamvallmitjana |
| archaeo_girl |
| brennawalks |
| ejarchaeology |
Top urls
top hashtags (not useful, given the nature of the search, right? But anyway)
| blogarch |
| archeology |
| archaeology |
| BlogArch |
| history |
| ancient |
| easterisland |
| mystery |
| easter |
| slave |
Top word pairs in those largest groups:
| archeology,professor | 30 |
| started,yesterday | 21 |
| yesterday,battle | 21 |
| battle,towton | 21 |
| towton,weapon | 21 |
| weapon,tests | 21 |
| tests,forensic | 21 |
| forensic,archeology | 21 |
| museum,archeology | 19 |
| blogging,archaeology | 17 |
second group:
blogging,archaeology 13
future,blogging 12
archaeology,go 7
archaeology,future 7
archaeology,final 6
final,review 6
review,blogarch 6
hopes,dreams 6
dreams,fears 6
fears,blogging 6
third group:
space,age 6
age,archaeology 6
archaeology,future 6
future,know 6
know,going 6
saa2014,blogarch 6
going,blogarch 5
blogarch,post 3
post,future 3
future,blogging 3
fourth group:
easterisland,ancient 10
ancient,mystery 10
mystery,easter 10
easter,slave 10
slave,history 10
history,esoteric 10
esoteric,archeology 10
archeology,egypt 10
rt,illumynous 9
illumynous,easterisland 9
fifth group:
costa,rica 8
rt,archeologynow 7
archeologynow,modern 4
modern,archeology 4
archeology,researching 4
researching,dive 4
dive,bars 4
bars,costa 4
rica,costa 4
rica,star 4
(once I saw ‘bars’, I stopped. Archaeological stereotypes, maybe).
Top mentioned in the entire graph
illumynous 9 bonesdonotlie 8
drspacejunk 8 drkillgrove 4
bonesdonotlie 8 capmsu 4
archeologynow 7 yagumboya 3
openaccessarch 7 drspacejunk 3
macbrunson 6 archeowebby 3
swbts 6 allarchaeology 3
archeowebby 6 openaccessarch 3
algenpfleger 5 cmount1 3
youtube 5 brennawalks 2
So what does this all mean? Answers on a postcard, please…
(My network files will be on figshare.com eventually).
Electric Archaeology 
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