Browsing by Subject "Twitter"
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#AmWriting : how authors negotiate their individual creative labour on social media
In this participatory arts-based research project, I tasked four poetry and fiction writers, with a creative project to determine how the individual nature of the author’s creative labour is negotiated on social ... -
Content is king: An analysis of how the Twitter discourse surrounding open education unfolded from 2009 to 2016
(Athabasca University Press, 2018-02)Inspired by open educational resources, open pedagogy, and open source software, the openness movement in education has different meanings for different people. In this study, we use Twitter data to examine the discourses ... -
Content is king: An analysis of how the twitter discourse surrounding open education unfolded from 2009 to 2016
(International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018)Inspired by open educational resources, open pedagogy, and open source software, the openness movement in education has different meanings for different people. In this study, we use Twitter data to examine the discourses ... -
Healthcare organizations' twitter communication : an integrative review
This integrative literature review examines how healthcare organizations communicate in Twitter and how they can communicate on Twitter. Twitter provides healthcare organizations with new ways to engage with the public and ... -
Mostly sports and congratulations: Twitter, Facebook, and Alberta higher education
One of the defining features of social media is the capability for interaction, specifically for the audience to respond to previously posted content. Higher education research to date has focused on the content published ... -
Rendered unconscious feminism, race and the NFL : the Ray Rice scandal as a site of critical inquiry
The public relations failure of the National Football league during the Ray Rice scandal reveals historic and systematic mechanisms of oppression facilitated through hegemonic ideologies of masculinity, femininity, race ... -
The technology of hope : twitter and the #BringBackOurGirls campaign
(2015-09-01)On April 14, 2014 Boko Haram, an Islamic militant group, abducted 274 girls from a secondary school in the Chibok region of northeastern Nigeria. The mass abduction of the Chibok girls shook Nigerians and spurred a social ... -
The twitter citizen : contributing to civil society discussion or adding to the noise?
(2013-09-17)This study examined the civic properties afforded by Twitter and considered whether hashtag communities achieve issues-pluralism in order to facilitate at least some viewpoints to popular expression otherwise absent from ... -
The Twitter experience : the role of Twitter in the formation and maintenance of personal learning networks
(2011-09-01)This qualitative phenomenological study involving in-depth interviews with seven educators in K-12 and higher education examines the role that the microblogging service Twitter plays in the formation and development of ...
