TY - CONF TI - Digital History meets Microblogging: Analyzing Collective Memories in Twitter AU - Sumikawa, Yasunobu AU - Jatowt, Adam AU - Düring, Marten T3 - JCDL '18 AB - Having good knowledge and comprehension of history is believed to be important for a variety of reasons. Microblogging platforms could offer good opportunities to study how and when people explicitly refer to the past, in which context such references appear and what purpose they serve. However, this area remains unexplored. In this paper we report the results of a large scale exploratory analysis of history-focused references in microblogs based on 11-months long snapshot of Twitter data. We are the first to analyze general historical references in Twitter based on large scale data analysis. The results of this study can be used for designing content recommendation systems and could help to improve time aware search applications. C1 - New York, NY, USA C3 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries DA - 2018/05/23/ PY - 2018 DO - 10.1145/3197026.3197057 DP - ACM Digital Library SP - 213 EP - 222 PB - Association for Computing Machinery SN - 978-1-4503-5178-2 ST - Digital History meets Microblogging UR - https://doi.org/10.1145/3197026.3197057 Y2 - 2020/11/05/00:00:00 KW - collective memory KW - history KW - social media analysis KW - twitter ER -