Translating the printemps érable
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For more useful English-language sources on the conflict, see:
CUTV - broadcasting live from the protests nightly
Rouge Squad - Tactical Translation Team
Rabble.ca's Maple Spring Coverage
Alain McKenna August 3, 2012
Original French text: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/elections-quebec-2012/la-campagne-virale/201208/03/01-4562058-je-prends-souvent-le-metro-mais-je-nappelle-pas-les-journalistes-moi.php
Mme David, whose riding is in the heart of Montréal, chimed in on the subject last night on Twitter, making many of her 12 000 or so followers laugh.
This electoral campaign is also taking place on social media. Twice a day, our journalists report the stories that are lighting up Twitter, Facebook, or Youtube.
-Françoise David, President of Québec Solidaire (@FrancoiseDavid)
Marc-Antoine Ménard for Radio-Canada July 4 2012, 17h31
Original French Text: http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2012/07/04/002-analyse-tweets-conflit-etudiant-beauchesne.shtml
Instant opinions, amplified points of view, events shared and magnified: social networks continue to mark the longest student conflict in the Quebec history. Is it possible to organize this galaxy of messages, to make sense of it all?
Research analyst Olivier H. Bourchesne took on this task as he produced graphics that demonstrate the principal points of convergence in messages on Twitter and which events generated the most tweets.
First observation: contrary to newspapers and traditional surveys, content distributed on Twitter is more polarised and influenced by users’ profiles. Beauchesne already made this observations in his Master’s thesis, which compared coverage of the Bouchard-Taylor commission on blogs and in traditional media.
