Method by Reggie Hodge

 Method

I will be doing my analysis over NBA twitter discourse. NBA twitter discourse is a endless well I would be looking forever if I don’t know exactly what I’m looking for. The first step I will take for gathering data is going through NBA twitter discourse for a week, I will be doing this to look for a pattern on how players are talked about or to find if there is a connection to how players are talked about. I will look into NBA players as a conglomerate, and I will look into specific players to see if the discourse about the player changes throughout different times of their career. I will do this by searching for a single player name in the search bar then I will scroll through and read tweets about the player from different years. After I go through twitter to find patterns or connections, I will separate these patterns or connection into groups as many groups as needed. After that I will see how each group is perceived by the media and if the discourse of twitter carries over from outside of twitter. Finally, I will see how the discourse that originated on twitter affects the player.