Hashtag Mining: The Politics of World Cup Watching

Forward Operating Base Lightening, Afghanistan. (Yeah, the weapon was a huge hit on the interwebs.)

Air Force 1. (Leading from behind?)

Space. (Calling Sandra Bullock.)

NY Stock Exchange 1.

NY Stock Exchange 2. (Every stock with USA in its name, up a point.)

Wall Street Journal. The Sports Industrial Complex desk.

World Bank. (They’ve got money on everyone.)

Beats the hell out of worrying about Syria, too. (Rebel fighters in Aleppo.)

(photo/screen grab 1: NYFinest27/Twitter. caption: American Troops watching the soccer game…. Guy in the red pic.twitter.com/1RvQoGEyoQ photo 2: Doug Mills/DougMillsNYT-Twitter. caption: President Obama watches the USA vs Germany World Cup game aboard Air Force One enroute to Minneapolis. #worldcup photo 3: NASA/AP. caption: Astronauts Steve Swanson, left, Reid Wiseman, right, and German astronaut. Astronauts Steve Swanson, left, Reid Wiseman, right, and German astronaut Alexander Gerst, center, kick around a soccer ball some 230 miles above Earth aboard the International Space Station.photo 4: @SandraNavidi/Twitter. caption: US vs Germany soccer World Cup match: All traders watching #NYSE #GERUSAphoto 5: johnkobs/Instagram. caption: 6/26/14: Not a lot of trading getting done during the #WorldCup! #NYSE @sportsnation @chatsportsphoto 6: stevewiz68/Instagram. caption: 6/26/14: A view of the #WSJ #newsroom (there I am hard at work!) at the start of today’s big #worldcup2014 game #newyork #newyorkcity photo 7: pacouceiro/Instagram. caption: 6/20.14: World Bank. Watching the best match yet. #WorldCup at the #WorldBank #BRAvsMEX #Ochoa photo 8: JM Lopez/AFP/GettyImagescaption: Opposition fighters watch television on the front line in the Saf Al-Dawla neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, Sept. 29, 2013.)