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Using Tweets As a Measure of Sponsor Engagement: Halifax Pride 2018 Volume 15 Spring 2019 djim.management.dal.ca | Using Tweets as a Measure of Sponsor Engagement: Halifax Pride 2018 Nicole Slipp School of Information Management, Dalhousie University Abstract The following paper considers what researchers can learn from Twitter alone about selected individuals or small groups of users and their sentiments on particular topics. More specifically, it attempts to evaluate the usability of data from Twitter as a measure of sponsor engagement in public events. Given that corporate and government sponsorship of Pride festivals is a pressing ethical concern for LGTBQ communities, this study takes the 2018 Halifax Pride Festival as its case study and performs both quantitative and qualitative analysis of the tweets of sponsors. Analyzing the Twitter data of sponsors of this event reveals some patterns of engagement and identifies the most engaged and informed sponsors. Twitter (www.twitter.com), the popular local scale. It considers what researchers social media platform with over three can learn from Twitter alone about selected hundred and thirty-six million active users individuals or small groups of users and (Statista, 2018), is undoubtedly creating their sentiments on particular topics. This data. A decade of research in the social paper specifically explores the feasibility of sciences has demonstrated this data’s using Twitter posts (tweets) as an indicator usability as evidence for certain types of of sponsor engagement: it considers if studies, particularly the study of large tweets reveal anything about whether datasets. The present study asks whether sponsors of a particular event are engaged Twitter data is useful on a smaller and more in a cause beyond monetary support and 1 what engaged sponsors of an event might spectators of all sexual orientations. These have in common. Due to rising concerns events now typically have corporate and among queer 1 activists over the government sponsors who donate money commercialization of Pride, the question of or goods. sponsor engagement in Pride festivals is a It is undeniable that queer rights in North particularly relevant one, and the 2018 America have advanced since the 1960s; Halifax Pride Festival is the case study for however, many activists and theorists point this paper. Analyzing the Twitter data of out that only certain queer identities have sponsors of this event reveals some become somewhat acceptable, and these patterns of engagement and identifies the tend to be those that can fit into existing most engaged and informed sponsors. social structures, for example a The Commercialization of Pride monogamous, white, cisgender, middle- The genesis of the Pride festival is generally class, gay couple. Instead of changing held to be protests against harassment and social norms, certain queer people are demands for queer rights. Many trace the accepted into them, a process Duggan beginning of the modern queer rights (2004) critiques and names as movement to the Stonewall riots in New homonormativity. As a result of resistance York City on June 28, 1969, for example to this process of normalization and (Klinefelter, 2011). These sorts of protests assimilation, when corporate and turned into organized marches, and those government sponsors get involved in Pride marches turned into annual parades.2 The festivals, there is concern about how Pride parade has been an essential part of meaningful their engagement with queer the queer rights movement because it issues is; for example, Utterback (2016) normalizes queer participation in public life critiques sponsors who simply use a and presents queerness as something of rainbow filter online or put a float in a which to be proud rather than a shameful parade but neglect to grapple with racism secret. In most Western countries today, or poverty in queer communities and Pride festivals are celebrations of queer argues, “when corporations support lesbian, identity and Pride parades attract gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, they 1 Queer is an umbrella term for various sexual This paper uses queer as a catchall for the many and gender identities other than heterosexual possibilities of gender and sexual identities. and cisgender (where sex assigned at birth 2 That linear development is of course a matches gender identity). More specific terms, simplification, but it is outside the purview of preferred local terms, and acronyms vary, e,g, this study to trace the history of Pride in much gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, detail. For more on the subject, see Klinefelter asexual, two-spirit, LGBT, 2SLBTBQ+, LGTBQ. (2011) or James (2018). 2 Using Tweets as a Measure of Sponsor Engagement are really capitalizing on another unnamed are a viable way to measure that identity: consumer” (par. 8). Queer people engagement or involvement. do not want to feel that a company Halifax Context sponsors Pride only because they and their Halifax Pride has not been immune to allies now represent a viable market share. questions about commercialization or The objection to government sponsors is pinkwashing. In 2016, there was major generally for politicians who express controversy over the inclusion of Size support for Pride but who also support Doesn’t Matter, an Israeli tourism group policies that negatively impact queer encouraging gay tourism to Tel Aviv, in a people. This kind of promotion during Pride community fair (Boon, 2016; Graham, Pride by politicians or businesses is referred 2016a; Queer Arabs of Halifax, 2016; Segal to as pinkwashing (Boon, 2017; Dahl, 2014). & Julia, 2016). The resulting fallout over Some, particularly those serving on Pride mishandling of the situation saw Festival boards and organizing committees, community members questioning Halifax argue that the commercialization of Pride Pride’s ability to represent marginalized is not necessarily a bad thing because it voices, board resignations, and calls for signals mainstream acceptance of queer boycotts from queer community groups identities (Kushner, 2017), while others (Dingwell, 2017b; Graham, 2016b). The argue that if celebrations become too following year, Halifax Pride discontinued apolitical and commercial, they risk the community fair, a showcase of sponsors excluding the most vulnerable members of and businesses, in favour of a community queer communities and endorsing harmful market for queer crafters and not-for-profit capitalist practices (O’Flynn, 2018; Rand, exhibitors. Adam Reid, Executive Director of 2012; Utterback, 2016). Many articles and Pride, said that Queer Arabs of Halifax’s news stories on the subject of Pride pinkwashing motion had been mishandled commercialization attempt to provide both at the previous AGM, and that the new perspectives or suggest ways community market would be more corporatization could be ethical while thoughtful about which exhibitors would acknowledging potential problems (Alsop, be included (Dingwell, 2017a). 2001; Botelho-Urbanski, 2016; Farrar, 2018; In 2017, the debate surrounding Halifax Ross, 2016). If there is a path forward for Pride was over Prime Minister Justin ethical sponsorship, it seems to be through Trudeau marching in the parade. Critics of a sponsor’s thoughtful engagement with the Prime Minister’s inclusion in the parade the issues facing queer communities or felt that it undermined Pride’s stated repeated and meaningful involvement in interest in rebuilding trust with local BIPOC Pride activities, not just monetary support. (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) The aim of this study will be to see if tweets communities because he, a privileged white Using Tweets as a Measure of Sponsor Engagement 3 man, would become the focus of the including, in broad terms, studies on the parade (Boon, 2017). Others argued that it behavioural side of social media, on reviews is still meaningful for a Prime Minister to and recommendations, on the integration support queer citizens in this way, of social media into workplaces, on social especially because Trudeau is the first media as a marketing tool, on online sitting Canadian Prime Minister to do so, communities, on the risks of using social so the community should be grateful for media, on negative stigma towards social his support (Kassam, 2016; King, 2016). media use in the workplace, on social media as value creation, on how users As a demonstration of their commitment to share information during critical events community outreach, Halifax Pride has (which is almost always on Twitter), on made changes to its operations since 2016. social media as a path for seeking help, and One such change is the Partner Initiatives on comparing traditional media and social Survey, which asks any sponsors and media (Kapoor et al., 2017). partners to report about what they do to support queer communities apart from The demand for Twitter data in research sponsoring the Pride festival (Halifax Pride, has resulted in numerous academic 2018). Overall, when it comes to publications on methodology (Borra & sponsorship, people respond best to actual Rieder, 2014; Bruns & Stieglitz, 2013; engagement, and the partner survey speaks Jürgens & Jungherr, 2016; Kapoor et al., to this desire to see sponsors who do more 2017; Snelson, 2016; Zimmer & Proferes, for the community than drop-in once a 2014), as well as various free and paid tools year. Halifax Pride’s recent issues with to use in data collection, analysis, and pinkwashing and sponsorship and its visualization. The Social Media Lab at relatively small scale make its 2018 Festival Ryerson University’s Social Media Toolkit an excellent case for a study of how tweets (2018) is a useful resource for evaluating might reflect sponsors’ engagement. the functions of over fifty such tools. Twitter in Social Science However, most tools that are free to use Research are only able to engage with Twitter’s API to return results in real-time or from seven As social media has become part of the days in the past; it also omits an unknown daily routine of many individuals and percentage of tweets at random (Borra & businesses, Twitter has become a valuable Rieder, 2014). These collect thousands of source for social science research.
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