{"id":1151,"date":"2015-04-21T16:06:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/SS15\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2018-09-04T17:07:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T17:07:33","slug":"social-media-bot-update-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/SS15\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"(Assessment 3) New Social Media Bot : EPIONE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally I had wanted to create a social media bot related to time management that would allow the user to keep track of how long they’ve spent on a social media platform, thus allowing the user to become aware of how long they’re online and possibly change their activity (if he\/she realizes its too much).\u00a0However, after last weeks Twitter bot exercise I decided to alter the goal of my project.<\/p>\n

New Social Media Bot<\/p>\n

EPIONE<\/span> (epp – ee – o – nee)<\/p>\n

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One of the side effects of becoming too engaged in social media, such as Facebook (being the prime example), studies have shown that this leads to feelings of disconnect and depression (or as Sherry Turkle mentioned in the reading ‘Alone Together’ feelings of loneliness and urge to disconnect from the world).<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/02\/04\/facebook-envy_n_6606824.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Therefore using the ‘Twitterbot’ method we went through in class, my new objective is to create a new social media bot that encourages<\/em> people.<\/p>\n

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Facts on the Greek goddess Epione.<\/p><\/div>\n

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When brainstorming this idea, I chose the name Epione after the Greek goddess of ‘soothing’ and\u00a0mother of the goddess of health Hygeia in mythology.<\/p>\n

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Here is a screenshot of the bot’s Twitter site.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I intend for the Epione bot to run on Twitter, exist as a fictional character on the web (like the Johnny Bravo experiment), and search for hashtags related to sadness and reply to them with comforting or inspirational messages.<\/p>\n

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Examples of hashtags my bot will look for.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I could also use the ‘IFTT’ (If This Then That) system to post positive photos or images that will ‘brighten’ someones day to the Twitter site. I’ve already researched alternative ways or methods that the Twitter API can be used to do this. I took a look at a link posted on the class site for people who didn’t want to use code (heavily) in their project, and followed the link to the site ‘Round Team’ and another Japanese Twitter site but none of them seemed applicable enough to my the purpose of my bot.<\/p>\n

I included other links to sites I looked at for research in case anyone else wants to check it out.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.techcovered.org\/how-to-create-your-own-twitter-auto-retweet-bot\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/dev.twitter.com\/rest\/public\/uploading-media<\/a><\/p>\n

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The original plan for the objective of my bot listed above has changed slightly. In the end, I Epione encourages and lifts the spirits of others through more artistic means. Although my intention was to use ‘If This Then That’ statements and the ‘retweet’ hashtag code, in the final construction of my bot I decided to go another route.<\/p>\n

For the final alteration of my bot I gathered different pieces of Greek poetry to post on the bots Twitter feed using the ‘filebot’ code, and in the end brought it up to the server and calibrated the code so that a line of text from the poetry was selected at random to post every 3 hours. In addition I also upgraded the Twitter site so that it sounds more like an actual person with an account rather than a ‘bot’.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the site now after I made a few changes.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Creating this bot was certainly a challenge for me, however I’ve learned to consider and appreciate what goes into creating an application or a platform for social media, and has definitely piqued my interest into deploying other bots into the realm of social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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