‘Had a lovely week at #conference2018 ’: An Analysis of Interaction through Conference Tweets

Twitter has become a common feature of academic conferences, used by organizers to provide information about the conference and by attendees to engage in discussion about the conference topics, share information, and create social links and networks within the community. This study examines the tweets from two conferences in Applied Linguistics in order to analyse the networked language practices of scholars using Twitter during conferences. More specifically, in this study we address the following questions: (i) what are the purposes for which scholars in this disciplinary community use Twitter during conferences? (ii) how are different semiotic resources (e.g. linguistic forms, pictures, videos, embedded slides) combined to orchestrate meaning and achieve these various rhetorical purposes? We also look at how Twitter features (hashtags, replies, retweets, mentions) contribute to these rhetorical purposes. The analysis reveals that tweets are mostly intended to create and maintain cohesive links or to encourage peers to perform specific actions. In order to achieve these functions scholars compose their tweets by using a variety of (linguistic and non-linguistic) expressions of stance and engagement (Hyland, 2005). We suggest that, given the increasingly important role of social media for scholarly communication, a central concern of EAP courses should be to help students develop the competence of composing multimodal texts. Scholars need to understand the ways in which the multiple semiotic resources available to them in social media can be used effectively to engage other members of the community in these new digital contexts.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Tourism E-Businesses

Multilevel Approach to Competitiveness in the Global Tourism Industry - Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-0365-2.ch010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 159-176

Author(s):

Pedro Álvaro Pereira Correia ◽

Irene García Medina ◽

Zahaira Fabiola González Romo

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Social Media ◽

Social Factors ◽

Exploratory Analysis ◽

Competitive Advantages ◽

Strategic Vision ◽

Tourism Sector ◽

The Social ◽

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The emergence of social networks has revolutionized the way people communicate and share information. Consequently, it becomes important to analyze the role of these models of collaboration and innovation through social networks in the strategic vision of the responsibility of marketing and communication in tourism industries, mainly the role of Facebook in e-business actions. This chapter presents a qualitative and exploratory analysis of the individuals in the virtual context of the social media, their behaviors, reactions, and attitudes, to perceive which social factors can enhance the appearance of competitive advantages for the organizations. There was a predilection for companies with a greater international connection at the level of clients and also at the level of the operation because there was a predominance of companies related to the tourism sector of Madeira.

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The Role of Social Media During a Natural Disaster: A Case Study of the 2011 Thai Flood

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management ◽

10.1142/s0219877014400124 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 11 (03) ◽

pp. 1440012 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Alisa Kongthon ◽

Choochart Haruechaiyasak ◽

Jaruwat Pailai ◽

Sarawoot Kongyoung

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Natural Disaster ◽

Thai People ◽

Twitter Users ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

Share Information ◽

Multiple Analysis

Recently, social media has become a key platform that allowed people to interact and share information. The use of social media is expanding significantly and can serve a variety of purposes. Over the last few years, users of social media have played an increasing role in the dissemination of emergency and disaster information. In this paper, we conduct a case study exploring how Thai people used social media such as Twitter in response to one of the country's worst disasters in recent history: the 2011 Thai Flood. We combine multiple analysis methods in this study, including content analysis of Twitter messages, trend analysis of different message categories, and influential Twitter users analysis. This study helps us understand the role of social media in time of natural disaster.

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Educators Meet the Fifth Estate: The Role of Social Media in Teacher Training

Teachers College Record ◽

10.1177/016146811912101406 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 121 (14) ◽

pp. 1-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Kaitlin T. Torphy ◽

Corey Drake

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

21St Century ◽

Teacher Candidates ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Professional Preparation ◽

Virtual Space ◽

Fourth Estate ◽

New Form ◽

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This chapter examines teacher candidates’ reflections on engagement with and in social media as it relates to their professional preparation and understandings of teaching within 21st- century classrooms. Extending earlier work, we present the notion of a Fifth Estate within the digital age, redefining network influence. As power and influence are negotiated across executive, judicial, and legislative enterprises, media—the Fourth Estate—and networks of influence among individuals within the Fifth Estate present a new form of educational professionalism. Here, educators, researchers, and the community may engage directly in virtual space. This chapter focuses in particular on the ways that candidates’ reflections on the ways in which they seek support from the Fifth Estate are shaped by their visions of teaching and learning, their trust in the teaching professionals who share information in the Fifth Estate, their efficacy to evaluate resources, and their autonomy to select and modify resources.

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Suomalaisten tutkijoiden sosiaalisen median käyttö: sosiaalisen median merkitys työssä, tiedonhankinnassa ja tieteellisen tiedon jakamisessa

Informaatiotutkimus ◽

10.23978/inf.77416 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Elina Late ◽

Sanna Kumpulainen ◽

Sanna Talja ◽

Lisa Christian ◽

Carol Tenopir

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Information Seeking ◽

Scholarly Communication ◽

Age Groups ◽

The Social ◽

Media Services ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

Shed Light

The use of social media in scholarly communication has grown in recent years, and consequently, scholars’ uses of social media has gained importance as a research topic.The aim of this article is to shed light on the role of social media in scholars’ work. The research presents findings from a survey (N=528) conducted in Finland in late 2016. There exists no prior research on the role and uses social media among Finnish scholars. This research specifically focuses on the perceived role of social media in information seeking and sharing. We also study the differences between disciplines, age groups, and positions. Results show that scholars do not perceive social media as being central for their or information seeking and sharing, and that social media services are not replacing traditional publishing forums. Scholars do appreciate the social media services intended and developed for academic use, and find them as having value for their work than general social media services. However, according to our results, social media services have a marginal role in scholars’ information seeking and scholars infrequently share their readings in social media platforms. Some disciplinary differences existed, but there was no connection between scholars’ age or position and the role of social media. Our study shows that the role of social media in academic work and scholarly communication is still rather small. Further research is needed to find out what are the reasons for scholars lack of interest towards social media.

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Web 2.0 for eParticipation

Citizen 2.0: Public and Governmental Interaction through Web 2.0 Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-0318-9.ch012 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 224-249 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Elizabeth Tait

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Web 2.0 ◽

Social Networking ◽

Citizen Participation ◽

Web 2.0 Tools ◽

Government Institutions ◽

Recent Developments ◽

Social Media Tools ◽

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Recent developments in social media allow people to communicate and share information instantly and have led to speculation about the potential for increased citizen participation in decision making. However, as with other developments in ICT, social media is not used by everyone, and there is a danger of certain groups being excluded. Further, if social media tools are to be used by government institutions, there needs to be new internal processes put in place to ensure that the participation is meaningful. This chapter will critically evaluate and analyse the role of Web 2.0 tools (such as social networking services) for facilitating democratic participation, investigate and evaluate the development of Web 2.0 tools for eParticipation, and determine how they can be used to facilitate meaningful political participation.

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The Role Of Usfulness In Mediation The Effect Of Arqument Quality And Popular Post In Social Media Marketing On Tendency To Give Like Symbol And Share The Content

International Journal of Science, Technology & Management ◽

10.46729/ijstm.v2i6.405 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (6) ◽

pp. 2247-2259

Author(s):

Ita Prihatining Wilujeng ◽

Handri Dian Wahyudi ◽

Adela Shabrina Prameka

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Media Marketing ◽

Easy Access ◽

The Internet ◽

Argument Quality ◽

User Attitudes ◽

Business Functions ◽

Use Of Social Media ◽

Share Information

Easy access to the internet provides opportunities and makes it easier to carry out business functions. The use of social media is one of the important marketing tools, messages in social media can change user attitudes and trigger consumer interaction. This study looks at the effect of argument quality and posts popularity on consumer tendencies to like and share information on social media related to a product or service mediated by usefulness. The responses of 300 respondents were analysed using PLS, the results showed that argument quality and post popularity had an influence on giving like symbols and share intentions on their social media.

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Communicative Actions and Narrative Practices

Action and Interaction ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198846345.003.0008 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 155-184

Author(s):

Shaun Gallagher

Keyword(s):

Applied Linguistics ◽

Social Practices ◽

The Other ◽

Positive Account ◽

Semiotic Resources ◽

Communicative Actions

This chapter continues to build the more positive account of our everyday intersubjective abilities by considering the role of communicative and narrative practices. Research in applied linguistics shows that our communicative engagements are complex and detailed practices that draw on a multitude of semiotic resources in the environment and in the other person’s embodied comportment. From childhood we learn to make sense of persons in action-oriented and narrative ways, listening to stories, or (re-)producing them in play-acting. We become familiarized with a range of ordinary or extraordinary situations, and the sorts of actions appropriate to them, all of which help to shape our expectations about people and their behaviors. In order to understand others in circumstances instituted by complex social practices and normative formations, to empathize with them, and to engage in such practices with them, much depends on our capacity to frame the actions of others in narrative.

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