10.6084/m9.figshare.924801.v1 Ernesto Priego Ernesto Priego Chris Zarate Chris Zarate #MLA14 Twitter Archive, 9-12 January 2014 City, University of London 2014 #mla14 Modern Language Associaton twitter social media data Library and Information Studies Digital Humanities 2014-02-04 20:12:55 Dataset https://city.figshare.com/articles/dataset/_MLA14_Twitter_Archive_9_12_January_2014/924801 <p>These files are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.</p> <p>#MLA14 was the hashtag which corresponded to the 2014 Modern Language Association Annual Convention. The Convention was held in Chicago from Monday 9 to Sunday 12 January 2014.</p> <p>The dataset includes tweets posted during the actual convention: the set starts with a tweet from Thursday 9 January 6:04:45 AM and ends with a tweet from Sunday 12 January 2014 23:32:46 Central Time. The total number of tweets in the dataset sums 21,915 tweets.</p> <p>The deposited .zip file contains 1 README.txt file and 5 CSV files including data from tweets harvested by Ernesto Priego (City University London) and Chris Zarate (MLA) using Martin Hawksey's TAGS 5.1. The data was deduplicated using OpenRefine. There is 1 CSV file per convention day and 1 CSV file with the combined tweets.</p> <p>An initial analysis of the data was posted as a series of blog posts by Ernesto Priego published between 16 January and 22 January 2014 at MLA Commons<br>(http://remoteparticipation.commons.mla.org/2014/01/16/mla14-a-first-look/) (accessed 4 February 2014).</p> <p>To cite:</p> <p>Priego, Ernesto; Zarate, Chris (2014): #MLA14 Twitter Archive, 9-12 January 2014. figshare.<br>http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.924801</p> <p> </p>