All Tomorrow's Cultures

The joint SCA/SVA " Displacements " conference has come to an end (although the archived presentations will remain up until the end of the month).  By all accounts, this virtual conference has been a success, but I wanted to probe the extent to which the conference brought together people across diverse locations.  Although we have some sense of this from the "Nodes" (local groups of face-to-face meetings and events surrounding the conference), Twitter may be a more important index, since that social media emerged as the most generative form of communication over the past few days. Using NodeXL, I downloaded tweets with the #displace18 hashtag, and grouped them by timezone.  Here is the sociograph I generated: And here's a key to the groups (which may help with some of the smaller ones in the lower, right-hand corner).  Pacific Time (US & Canada) 0, 12, 96 Disk     Pacific Time (US & Canada)  ...