An Analysis of Twitter Conversations at Academic Conferences

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on The Design of Communication CD-ROM Pub Date : 2014-09-27 DOI:10.1145/2666216.2666219

Laura Gonzales

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Academic conference organizers encourage tweeting during presentations to promote access and engagement. In this paper, I provide a methodological framework for analyzing Twitter conversations during academic conferences. An analysis of tweets archived during the 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication is included as an example. Tweets using the #4C14 hashtag (N=12,522) were analyzed to determine 1) when people tweet during conferences, 2) what sessions they tweet about most, 3) how often participants tweet during sessions, and 4) what people tweet about at conferences during times of high Twitter activity. Results suggest conference attendees tweet most frequently during the middle of each day during the conference, presentations related to technology yield high Twitter activity, and retweeting particular sessions extended presentations far beyond the designated time blocks of each conference panel. These results provide valuable information for conference organizers and experience architects interested in promoting participatory digital spaces during academic conferences.

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学术会议上的推特对话分析

学术会议组织者鼓励在演讲期间使用twitter，以促进访问和参与。在本文中，我提供了一个分析学术会议期间Twitter对话的方法论框架。本文以2014年大学作文与交流会议期间存档的推文分析为例。使用#4C14标签的推文(N= 12522)进行了分析，以确定1)人们在会议期间发布推文的时间，2)他们发布推文最多的会议内容，3)与会者在会议期间发布推文的频率，以及4)人们在推特活跃度高的会议期间发布推文的内容。结果表明，会议参与者在会议期间每天中午发推特的频率最高，与技术相关的演讲在Twitter上的活跃度很高，转发特定的会议使演讲远远超出了每个会议小组的指定时间段。这些结果为会议组织者和有兴趣在学术会议期间推广参与式数字空间的经验建筑师提供了有价值的信息。

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