#CSAA14 by the numbers

I was at the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA) annual conference last week, which gathered around the hashtag #CSAA14 on Twitter. Aside from a huge variety of engaging, challenging and provocative speakers, the social media conversation was also fascinating. I particularly enjoyed an exchange with @wisebeck about the equivalence of furbies with gremlins:
Gremlin-Furby Chat

Here’s how the activity played out on Twitter:

The graph shows a total of 841 tweets, by 59 users, the most prolific of which are shown below.

		Tweets	Followers	Listed
	@wisebeck Beck Wise	7,811	394	19	298 mentions 92 retweets    71 favorites
	@travisaholland travis holland	10,039	1,059	29	121 mentions 34 retweets    29 favorites
	@ReneeMiddlemost Renee Middlemost	872	455	8	61 mentions 8 retweets    7 favorites
	@colinsalter Colin Salter	3,036	278	10	51 mentions 13 retweets    7 favorites
	@JoshuaPocius Joshua Pöcius	360	153	2	43 mentions 15 retweets    15 favorites
	@jtbbtt John Tebbutt	534	145	6	37 mentions 3 retweets    7 favorites
	@sallyclairevans Sally Evans	188	43	3	29 mentions 15 retweets    12 favorites
	@Eventmechanics Glen Fuller	25,905	1,858	95	24 mentions 17 retweets    8 favorites
	@in_laing Melissa Laing	2,761	215	7	22 mentions 11 retweets    6 favorites
	@alexiamadd Alexia Maddox	5,574	445	25	18 mentions

Aside from #csaa14, popular co-present hashtags were:

• a longer version of the conference tag #csaa2014 (45)
• panel tags: #exposure4 (15), #activism5 (8), #data (6), #flesh6 (6), #flesh4 (5), #flesh2 (5)
• tags relating to a keynote by Katina Michael #uberveillance (5), #nest (5)