Emanuel AME Church Shooting Tweets
Collection Scope and Contents
On June 17, 2015 a mass shooting took place at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Soon afterward the #charleston and #charlestonshooting hashtags were used on Twitter to spread news of the event. On June 18th Bergis Jules of UC Riverside and Ed Summers of University of Maryland began collecting #charleston and #charlestonshooting tweets as both a historical search and a stream. Both files are included here, and comprise 3,099,173 tweets from June 10th to June 30th. The first few hundred of the tweets included #charleston tweets prior to the event.
Dates
- Creation: 2015
Access
Due to Twitter's Terms of Service we are restricted in how we provide access to this data. For specific questions regarding access please contact Bergis Jules at bergis.jules@ucr.edu.
Extent
2 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection is available via a csv file. The file contains 4 columns identifying tile, username, tweet text, and an image URL.
Custodial History
Materials collected at Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities from 6/10/2015 to 6/30/2015 and transferred to UCR Library on 6/30/2015.
Acquisition Information
Bag-Software-Agent: bagit.py /github.com/libraryofcongress/bagit-python> Bagging-Date: 2015-06-30 Payload-Oxum: 2237281732.2 Identifier: 085323E0-E95A-4045-A1DF-27B5F65C1EE6
Subject
- Simmons, Daniel (Person)
- Coleman-Singleton, Sharonda (Person)
- Hurd, Cynthia Marie Graham (Person)
- Lance, Ethel (Person)
- Middleton-Doctor, DePayne (Person)
- Obama, Barack (Person)
- Pinckney, Clementa (Person)
- Sanders, Tywanza (Person)
- Thompson, Myra (Person)
- African Methodist Episcopal Church. South Carolina Conference (Organization)
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Collection of Emanuel AME Church Shooting Tweets: Charleston and CharlestonShooting Hashtags
- Author
- Finding Aid prepared by Bergis Jules
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscript Collections Repository
University of California
Rivera Library
P.O. Box 5900
Riverside 92517-5900 USA
specialcollections@ucr.edu