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How Twitter is being used by Australian engineering academic unitsTRANSCRIPT
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HOW TWITTER IS BEING USED BY AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERING ACADEMIC UNITS
Stuart Palmer@s_palm
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment Deakin University
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Linking students and practising engineers
Engaging large classes in real time
Student ‘journaling’ on work placements
Sending commands to hosted Matlab
Used for student group communications when LMS proves to be unwieldy
Social media in engineering education
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Georgia Tech College of Engineering
4891 Twitter followers
4115 Facebook followers
40 YouTube videos14 subscribers
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Basic Twitter account statistics for the 8 Australian engineering unitsAcademi
cunit
Tweets Mentio
nsFollowin
gFollower
sUndirected
Directed
Retweets
Total
U1 161 5 7 173 16 22 306
U2 237 306 140 683 58 189 405
U3 12 1 0 13 0 9 7
U4 219 269 73 561 59 536 695
U5 171 0 0 171 0 6 14
U6 91 106 51 248 19 76 288
U7 62 0 1 63 0 12 28
U8 32 10 49 91 40 114 211
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Monthly total Tweets for 8 AEAUs
N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J
2010 2011 2012 2013
U1
U2
U3
U4
U5
U6
U7
U8
Nil 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70
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Twitter network visualisation schema
Account 1(node)
Account 2(node)
Direction of Tweet(clockwise edge)
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Exemplar Twitter network diagrams
AEAU 1
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Exemplar Twitter network diagrams
AEAU 2
AEAU 1
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Combined AEAU Twitter network
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
w
a
b
c
d
1-8: AEAUsw: ‘the world’a: common to AEAUs 2 and 4b: common to AEAUs 2, 4 and 5c: common to AEAUs 2, 4, 6 and 8d: common to 5 AEAUs and others
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Combined AEAU Twitter network
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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Combined AEAU Twitter network
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
@EngAustralia
@EWB_Australia
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Combined AEAU Twitter network
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
@EngAustralia
@EWB_Australia
@Bechtel
@AECOM
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Combined AEAU Twitter network
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
@EngAustralia
@EWB_Australia
@Bechtel
@AECOM
@adambspencer
@DoctorKarl
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Combined AEAU Twitter network
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
@EngAustralia
@EWB_Australia
@Bechtel
@AECOM
@adambspencer
@DoctorKarl
@UTAustin
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Combined AEAU Twitter network
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
@EngAustralia
@EWB_Australia
@Bechtel
@AECOM
@adambspencer
@DoctorKarl
@UTAustin
@KimTairi
@HapgoodK
@s_palm
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Limited uses of social media in engineering education documented in the literature
Network visualisation is one method for evaluating the use of social media
For AEAUs, two principal patterns of Twitter activity where observed…
Conclusions
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1. sending mostly undirected Tweets; and
2. a more diverse model with a spread of Tweet types, and more Tweets overall
The mere numbers don’t really reveal the content and purpose of the Twitter activity
Twitter is only one social media platform
A useful method for future research
Conclusions
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