Research: Understanding How Twitter is Used to Widely Spread Scientific Messages
Today, as the WWW2010 Conference begins in Raleigh, North Carolina (it's a four day event). The Web Science Conference 2010 (a two day "conference within a conference") also gets underway. It's our hope to feature some of the MANY papers (from both conferences) on ResourceShelf.
by: Julie Letierce and Alexandre Passant and John Breslin and Stefan Decker
In: Proceedings of the WebSci10: Extending the Frontiers of Society On-Line, April 26-27th, 2010, Raleigh, NC: US. (In Press).
From the Abstract:
According to a survey we recently conducted, Twitter was ranked in the top three services used by Semantic Web re- searchers to spread information. In order to understand how Twitter is practically used for spreading scientific mes- sages, we captured tweets containing the official hashtags of three conferences and studied (1) the type of content that researchers are more likely to tweet, (2) how they do it, and finally (3) if their tweets can reach other communities — in addition to their own. In addition, we also conducted some interviews to complete our understanding of researchers’ motivation to use Twitter during conferences.
The hashtags for four events are:
#WWW2010, #websci10, #w4a10 and #fw2010 (the final hashtag is for the Future Web Conference.
It's another "conference within a conference," beginning Wednesday.
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