Digital Tools
The Project Documenting the now uses and created many tools and methods. The first tool that is used is Twarc which collects tweets using hashtags, keywords, and accounts.
Communications is trying to figure out how people use media to influence, share, and respond. Twarc allows for communications to study the different trends, hashtags and posts made from the public over a period of time which will help analyze how the public responds to certain media and give a better understanding for how information gets spread publicly.
Twarc is related to DHM as it can help store decades worth of culture through media, allowing for researchers to look back on changes over a long period of time.
The second tool that is used is called Hydrator. This allows for you to turn tweet ID data sets back into the full tweet data like who posted it and what it said as well as what time it was posted.
In communications once a tweet is hydrated it helps people in communications analyze how society reacted to media at one point and how things have changed since then. Great tool for long running hydration research.
Hydration is related to DHM because it restores public data similar to how DHM because they use the public data as reference/display.
