These are notes from the Twitter and Micro-blogging conference at Lancaster University for day 3. The full programme can be found on Lanyard.The Twitter hastag is #LUTwit I am also following eLearning @ Edinburgh on #elearninged First session is Cracking the Code on Twitter use by media fandom by Rhiannon Bury at Athabasca Uni. Places her research in the context of the increase … Read more
My slides on Discursive practices in informal learning events on Twitter presented at #LUtwit: Whose piper and whose tune? from Peter Evans
These are notes from the Twitter and Micro-blogging conference at Lancaster University for day 2. The full programme can be found on Lanyard.The Twitter hastag is #LUTwit Conceptualising Twitter as a discourse system by @mdanganh Looked at the Function of the # – lead to theory of contextualisation based on John J Gumperz conversational inference and contextualisation cues as surface feature … Read more
Sociotechnical mediation in learning communities by Xavier Inghilterra Research supported by a French agency supporting technology development. The study is focused on corporate training and to address key challenges in distance training: high drop out rates attendance at lecture courses declining active engagement in training also declining Problem is on how to retain student interest through … Read more
Uses and risks of micro-blogging in organisations by Soureh Latif Shabgahi from Sheffield University The research focused on SMEs as these may be more receptive to business improvement interventions. However, initial research found larger organisations as early adopters of enterprise micro-bloggers (EMB). Found little research on EMB, especially in the UK. Research has tended to focus on communications … Read more
These are notes from the Twitter and Micro-blogging conference at Lancaster University. The full programme can be found on Lanyard. Elizabeth Merkhofer from Georgetown University is speaking on : search as sociality An ethnography of a hashtag situated on a page rather than in terms of users but rather concerned with social ordering in a web page. Using micro-meme … Read more
These are notes from the Twitter and Micro-blogging conference at Lancaster University. The full programme can be found on Lanyard. The Twitter hastag is #LUTwit Introduction started from @JuliaGillen with the general acknowledgements, thanks and background to the conference. In particular, the conference emerged from the interests of the Linguistics dept in social media and … Read more
I have recently been attempting a discourse analysis of a Twitter chat event, The analysis process proved harder than I was expecting. Partly, this was due to the volume of tweets where in a 90 minute event, 922 tweets were made, or 10.2 per minute. No wonder participants often mentioned how hard it was to … Read more
Good post here from Ian Delaney on a critical perspective on Twitter. Interesting stuff and I left a long (ish but very rambling) comment in essence suggesting that social media, as with any social practice, can and should be viewed with a eye to power relations. Power being a process of socialisation (and so not … Read more
Its been a couple of weeks since I started using twitter. Like some others I’ve been an erratic user. Initially (and perhaps, still) it can feel a bit overwhelming and a time sink – so many people to follow. A few things stand out: – offers of support/ advice came almost immediately (thanks harold, Christian,Shawn) … Read more