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#whitney #death #throttledtweetstream (2012)
Social media networks have become key systems for commentary on celebrity culture as well as sites for creative practitioners to generate new forms of aesthetic language and experience (Berry & Schleser eds 2014). Fan and news outlet commentary around the death of a high profile person is known to generate an upsurge of activity in the Twitter community (den Bulck, H. V. and Larsson, A. O. 2017 and Döveling, K., Harju, A.A. and Sommer, D. 2018). The use of selected hashtags in Twitter by fans and news outlets posting or retweeting to signify a high profile death often perpetuates and expands the discourse around such events.
Studies on Twitter measuring the impact of audience engagement around a social, cultural or political ‘event’ have chiefly employed quantitative data collection methods or qualitative evaluations of textual or visual content in posted tweets. ‘#whitney #death #throttledtweetstream’ is a sound art response to the social media flood of postings on Twitter captured within hours of the announcement of the death of celebrity, Whitney Houston. Using the hashtags, #whitney and #death as search markers, only three minutes and forty seconds of the default notification sounds from the Tweetdeck application were able to be recorded before the application froze and an in-app message displayed, “Your tweetstream is being throttled”.
Using my alt performance moniker of radioShirley, this work was selected for inclusion in the Adhocrasound 2012 program, a micro-survey of Australian experimental sound artists and presented within an installation context curated by sound artist, Jason Sweeney. Adhocrasound is a side project of the annual Adhocracy Festival in Adelaide presented by arts organisation, Vitalstatistix. Also included in the selection were noted Australian sound artist, Lawrence English and broadcaster Paul Gough aka pimmon.
References:
Berry, M & Schleser, M 2014, ‘Creative Mobile Media: The State of Play’, in M Berry & M Schleser (eds), Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones, Palgrave Macmillan, US, pp.1-9
den Bulck, H. V. and Larsson, A. O. (2017) ‘‘There’s a Starman waiting in the sky’: Mourning David #Bowie on Twitter’, Convergence. doi:10.1177/1354856517709670.
Döveling, K., Harju, A. A. and Sommer, D. (2018) ‘From Mediatized Emotion to Digital Affect Cultures: New Technologies and Global Flows of Emotion’, Social Media + Society. doi:10.1177/2056305117743141.
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By Kenneth LyonsSocial media networks have become key systems for commentary on celebrity culture as well as sites for creative practitioners to generate new forms of aesthetic language and experience (Berry & Schleser eds 2014). Fan and news outlet commentary around the death of a high profile person is known to generate an upsurge of activity in the Twitter community (den Bulck, H. V. and Larsson, A. O. 2017 and Döveling, K., Harju, A.A. and Sommer, D. 2018). The use of selected hashtags in Twitter by fans and news outlets posting or retweeting to signify a high profile death often perpetuates and expands the discourse around such events.
Studies on Twitter measuring the impact of audience engagement around a social, cultural or political ‘event’ have chiefly employed quantitative data collection methods or qualitative evaluations of textual or visual content in posted tweets. ‘#whitney #death #throttledtweetstream’ is a sound art response to the social media flood of postings on Twitter captured within hours of the announcement of the death of celebrity, Whitney Houston. Using the hashtags, #whitney and #death as search markers, only three minutes and forty seconds of the default notification sounds from the Tweetdeck application were able to be recorded before the application froze and an in-app message displayed, “Your tweetstream is being throttled”.
Using my alt performance moniker of radioShirley, this work was selected for inclusion in the Adhocrasound 2012 program, a micro-survey of Australian experimental sound artists and presented within an installation context curated by sound artist, Jason Sweeney. Adhocrasound is a side project of the annual Adhocracy Festival in Adelaide presented by arts organisation, Vitalstatistix. Also included in the selection were noted Australian sound artist, Lawrence English and broadcaster Paul Gough aka pimmon.
References:
Berry, M & Schleser, M 2014, ‘Creative Mobile Media: The State of Play’, in M Berry & M Schleser (eds), Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones, Palgrave Macmillan, US, pp.1-9
den Bulck, H. V. and Larsson, A. O. (2017) ‘‘There’s a Starman waiting in the sky’: Mourning David #Bowie on Twitter’, Convergence. doi:10.1177/1354856517709670.
Döveling, K., Harju, A. A. and Sommer, D. (2018) ‘From Mediatized Emotion to Digital Affect Cultures: New Technologies and Global Flows of Emotion’, Social Media + Society. doi:10.1177/2056305117743141.