Category: Twitter
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Additional (older) #SAchat data: Participation, Geography, and Gender
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…
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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…
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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…
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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 –…
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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…