Community member 'Kat Allison' made a post about the deepest of deep dives into the history of a seemingly trivial phenomenon: a footbridge over a suburban freeway south of Minneapolis. At the same time, an amazing piece of citizen research and reporting on a bit of pre-internet local history.
www.metafilter.com/200490/I-just-published-a-wildly-over-researched-article
#bloomfieldbridge #bridge #citizenresearch #footbridge #history #minneapolis #minnesota #reporting
fascinating!
also, i liked one of the readers’ comments:
“This feels like it came from the late 90s Internet. It's like a warm hug.”
Another #TwitterMigration item related to #CitizenResearch - is the much more limited search feature. I'm still a newbie but from some tests and what I've read, search seems focused on #hashtags, and seems limited to a few days (and local server?)
The ability to search Twtr for raw open source data shared by citizen researchers (and often my own forgotten tweets) was invaluable. Not to mention quickly viewing news highlights (it was like a personal curated google). This seems like a gap.
I've been pondering a #TwitterMigration item re: quote tweets & #CitizenResearch
Twitter researchers have been discounted for spreading assumptions & conspiracy theories. But twitter is(was) invaluable for sharing open source data on niche topics. Quote tweets link related threads and visually display info (like footnotes).
Without quote tweets I wonder if sharing data will be more challenging here. Curious to hear thoughts on this.
I wrote this related piece in 2017
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/wendysiegelman/im-one-of-the-people-investigating-trump-on-twitter-you
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