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As part of my MA in Digital Sociology, I did some research to find out perspectives of Brunei residents on government scholarships, particularly those that send students abroad for higher education.
It was not my MA dissertation, so the research was not extensive.
In 2012, the Legislative Council (Majlis Mesyuarat Negara) proceedings seemed to be live-updated on Twitter by one of our local newspapers.
Bruneians on Twitter responded accordingly, tweeting their hopes and disappointments. I noticed some themes emerging from these responses, and so I wrote these two posts addressing them:
- LegCo 2012: Word of the day is “Expectations” – what the Brunei public believes LegCo is about, and why they are disappointed
- LegCo 2012: Thanks for the Update – how LegCo should not be a place to present your Ministry’s progress updates
I noticed that people used Twitter to complain… a lot. So I took 7 days of tweets hashtagged #brunei, categorised them into types of complaints, and wrote about it:
- Mini-Project: #brunei Complaints – so what do Bruneians complain about on Twitter? Did you really have to ask?
- #brunei complaints: notes and other fun thoughts – my notes regarding the various caveats of this mini-project, e.g. definitions of complaints, why #brunei, why Twitter
I totally meant to repeat the experiment with tweets over a longer period, but I never got around to it. In fact, I still have a file containing all #brunei tweets for Oct 2011.