Digging into the Public's Astronomy Interests

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May 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21440107m&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #214, #401.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.660

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The astronomy community is good at sharing what we feel is most important or most interesting to the public via press releases, and we can get a sense of what the media wants from what they select to publish. Understanding exactly what the public most enjoys, however, was until recently mostly a matter of guesswork. Social networking sites, however, provide a place for people to publicly indicate what they like. For instance, the site http://www.digg.com allows people to submit links to interesting content on any subject and people can add "Diggs" to that linked in page. As articles gain more and more Diggs, they rise through the ranks, with the overall highest ranked sites appearing on the Digg homepage, and the highest ranked in a variety of topics, including both "Science" and the sub-topic "Space." In this poster we look at 1 month of data from Digg and study what astronomy subjects the public selects to Digg, what items have the most staying power, and compare what is Dugg to what is released via press releases during the same period.

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