Social Networking in scientific conferences -
Twitter as tool for strengthen a scientific
community
Wolfgang Reinhardt
University of Paderborn
Martin Ebner
TU Graz
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How could we make use of Science 2.0
opportunities for Technology Enhanced
Learning researchers?
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How can the micro-blogging tool Twitter be
used on scientific conferences for e-Learning
scientists?
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web 2.0
Web 2.0 is an attitude not a technology - This
means there is no technological revolution, it is
a social revolution.
Stephen Downes
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web 2.0
Todays users are working completely
different, instead of mainly consuming
information from static webpages, they play
an active role, they contribute, discuss and
share information around the globe.
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http://www.motor-talk.de/attachment/620692/Golf%20in%20Einzelteilen.jpg • 140 characters • Followers
• from mobile, client or web interface • Direct messages
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• Direct messages • #Hashtags
• @Mentions (Replies) and Retweets • Open API

Communities in Twitter form by the common
usage of a hashtag that is part of the
message.
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Twitter in conferences?
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Surveys
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Backchannel
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Twitterwall
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Instant Feedback
Ask for Questions
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Use CaseED-MEDIA 2009
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TwitterVisBT allows making
snapshots of the development of
a community on Twitter on a
regular basis and analyzing the
contents of the respective
communication of the community.
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ED-MEDIA is an international
conference on “Educational
Multimedia, Hypermedia &
Telecommunication”. The 2009
venue was Honolulu, Hawaii.
About 1.000 participants every
year attend numerous sessions
and workshops for 5 days.
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Several hints to the Twitter stream
were given beforehand the
beginning of the conference as
well as at the conference.
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users
other
Tags
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dynamic tag cloud
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Conclusion
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Outlook

visualization of content and
dynamics in the network
who is the heartbeat?
Hot topics
! semantical analysis, RDF
Artefact-Actor-Networks
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Wolfgang Reinhardt
@wollepb
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Hendrik Drachsler
@HDrachsler
Steve Wheeler
@timbuckteeth
#icl09

Thank you
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Wolfgang Reinhardt
University of Paderborn
Institute of Computer Science
Working Group Didactics of Informatics
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