I began poking around My Sample® to try to think about ways to slice and dice what I am seeing. I plan to start my formal observations on Saturday, but I did a sneak peek. Some students in class suggested that maybe I am biting off too much with the thousands of potential tweeters, but…
I just received my first of 3 essay questions for my comps. I hate to wish away weeks of my life, but I can’t wait for Thanksgiving 🙂
So, I’m getting everything set up to begin an observation of the activity on the ETT twitter account. However, when I checked in on the account earlier this month, I saw that ETT was following about 1,500 out of the 4,300 or so followers. Assuming that no one had taken the time to troll through…
A recent free report published in Faculty focus summarizes a survey of Twitter usage and trends among higher ed faculty. As noted in the summary to the report, about 20% are familiar or very familiar with Twitter and of those who use it 7% use it in the classroom. It is this group of teachers…
Nardi, Shiano, and Gumbreckt (2004) summarize an ethnographic study of blogging considering motivations, social interactivity, and relationships between blogger and audience. From prior studies on blogging, blog “types” can be roughly categorized into three “types” including personal journals / online diary (the majority), “filters” which provide commentary and information from other websites, knowledge logs. However,…
Reciprocity … certainly a concept that comes up frequently in discussions of networks. It came up again in a recent article by Huberman, Romero, and Wu (2008) regarding Twitter in which the authors’ found that 90 percent of a users’ friends reciprocate attention by being friends of the user which they suggest plays a role…
TechCrunch had an interesting article from a few weeks back about why teens don’t (or do) tweet. As usual, it is important to try to find the story behind the numbers. The “story” (as summarized by TechCrunch) tells us that some studies suggest only 11% of Twitter users are teen which seems like a tiny…
I’m trying to get my head around “case study research”. While I have read countless case studies, I tend not to put them in the category of research. Too often they read like “what I did last summer” reports where (again) I question the value to anyone but the souls associated directly with the situation…
I’ve had just enough exposure to “research” to be dangerous. I have read a ba-zillion journal articles and have taken all of the required research courses in the program … with the exception of this last one involving qualitative research. At the outset of this class, I have read several introductory chapters in the required…
As an early adopter of Twitter, I was also early to depart … as least as a frequent user. While I check in a few times a week to lurk within my “hidden network” (more on that in future posts), I now only make the occasional tweet … usually when I am out and about…