A Quick Analysis of Tweets About the Great British Class Survey #whatclassareyou
The Great British Class Survey was undertaken by Mike Savage of the LSE and other academics at the London School of Economics, the University of Manchester, City University and the Universities of York, Bergen in Norway, and the Université Paris Descartes, France.
The survey raises important questions regarding the construction and maintenance of class in the UK.
Like others, I took the online ‘What Class Are You?’ calculator at the BBC website. It measures income variables, one’s social network, and one’s social/cultural interests.
I collected 1426 tweets from April 4 2013 – April 11, 2013 which include the URL bbc.in/12acLLV (a main URL used to link to the GBCS calculator. Some initial results of examining these data are below. Please comment on ideas for better understanding these data.
| Top Hashtags in Tweet in Entire Graph | Entire Graph Count |
| whatsyourclass | 1061 |
| britain | 12 |
| class | 11 |
| fb | 5 |
| bbc | 5 |
| elite | 3 |
| rofl | 3 |
| poorgeois | 3 |
| sociology | 2 |
| joke | 2 |
| Top Words in Tweet in Entire Graph | Entire Graph Count |
| class | 2052 |
| new | 1140 |
| whatsyourclass | 1062 |
| system | 1029 |
| britain | 1007 |
| s | 1006 |
| group | 999 |
| m | 983 |
| out | 935 |
| found | 919 |
| Top Word Pairs in Tweet in Entire Graph | Entire Graph Count |
| class,system | 1027 |
| new,class | 1015 |
| s,new | 999 |
| britain,s | 998 |
| group,britain | 959 |
| system,whatsyourclass | 942 |
| found,out | 918 |
| out,m | 914 |
| middle,class | 426 |
| class,group | 408 |
I collected 1204 tweets from April 4 2013 – April 11, 2013 which include the hashtag #whatclassareyou (a key hashtag used to discuss the GBCS). Some initial results of examining these data are below.
| Top URLs in Tweet in Entire Graph | Entire Graph Count |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973 | 1117 |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22025328 | 7 |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21953364 | 4 |
| http://bbc.in/12acLLV- | 2 |
| http://bbc.in/12acLLV…not | 1 |
| http://jonathancresswell.co.uk/dailymail/ | 1 |
| http://bristolaf.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/the-great-british-class-calculator/ | 1 |
| http://bbc.in/12acLLV.nokiddin | 1 |
| http://bbc.in/12acLLV.Quessed | 1 |
| http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973 | 1 |
| Top Hashtags in Tweet in Entire Graph | Entire Graph Count |
| whatsyourclass | 1204 |
| britain | 12 |
| class | 6 |
| bbc | 5 |
| fb | 4 |
| elite | 3 |
| rofl | 3 |
| joke | 2 |
| sticazzi | 2 |
| in | 2 |
| Top Words in Tweet in Entire Graph | Entire Graph Count |
| class | 1502 |
| whatsyourclass | 1203 |
| new | 1129 |
| system | 1023 |
| britain | 1021 |
| s | 979 |
| group | 968 |
| m | 953 |
| out | 928 |
| found | 899 |
| Top Word Pairs in Tweet in Entire Graph | Entire Graph Count |
| class,system | 1021 |
| new,class | 1005 |
| s,new | 975 |
| britain,s | 972 |
| system,whatsyourclass | 966 |
| group,britain | 939 |
| found,out | 898 |
| out,m | 892 |
| class,group | 399 |
| middle,class | 397 |