In a comment to my previous post sharing some of my thoughts about #sachat in advance of their “State of #SAchat” discussion tomorrow, Gary Honickel asked about demographics of #sachat participants. In our forthcoming chapter (I’m not trying to advertise it – honest! Just trying to explain why I have all of this information. I’m… Continue reading Additional (older) #SAchat data: Participation, Geography, and Gender
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Reflections on #sachat
Tomorrow, the members of the #sachat community will be engaging in introspection and discussing “The State of #SAchat” instead of their usual weekly discussion of topical student affairs topics. I have been conducting research on the #sachat community for a couple of years now so I thought it might be helpful for the community if… Continue reading Reflections on #sachat
Limitations and Lost Nuance: Twitter Does Not Improve Grades
I’ve watched with interest over the last several months as media outlets and individuals have discussed, blogged, and tweeted a study conducted by Junco, Heiberger, and Loken. Their study reported that a group of students who used Twitter as part of a class earned higher grades than classmates in sections of the class that did… Continue reading Limitations and Lost Nuance: Twitter Does Not Improve Grades
More #sachat analysis: One Illuminating Figure
Laura Pasquini and I are working on analyzing #sachat data, a follow-up to work I’ve done previously but did not formally publish. Part of our work involves looking at a few other student affairs-related hashtags to help us understand #sachat in context. This figure shows the number of Twitter messages posted with particular hashtags –… Continue reading More #sachat analysis: One Illuminating Figure
How I (Don’t) Use Social Media
This is an uncomfortable post to write. I’ve never wanted to use this blog to discuss personal issues and it feels very vain and self-important to describe some of my own personal habits and practices. But every time I’ve mentioned the things below people are intrigued and interested. Some people are even relieved to find… Continue reading How I (Don’t) Use Social Media
Visualizing #sachat Data (First Draft)
It took me much longer than I had hoped but today I finally finished a first draft of a visualization of some of the #sachat data I’ve been working with: The method of analysis used in this video is dynamic topic analysis (DTA). DTA was developed by Dr. Susan Herring and more information about the… Continue reading Visualizing #sachat Data (First Draft)