visualizing the dynamics of communication in communities of practice on twitter
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Visualizing the dynamics of communication in Communities of Practice on Twitter
Wolfgang ReinhardtUniversity of Paderborn
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What areCommunities of Practice ?
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In a nutshell, Communities of Practice are groups of people of different sizes who share a common concern
or have a common passion.
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CoPs often emerge in the context of existing organisations or
professional networks, in which people are already involved in common professional practices.
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CoPs elaborate current (or develop new) practices, through
communication, debates and exploration of internal and external
knowledge.
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?What is Twitter
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• Direct messages
• @Mentions (Replies) and Retweets
• #Hashtags
• Open API
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• Followers
• Direct messages
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CoPs in Twitter form by the common usage of a hashtag that is part of
the message.
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?research Question
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How can we track and visualize the dynamics of written communication in Communities of Practice in Twitter?
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sneak Peek#telss09
www.flickr.com/photos/zedzap/3332003118/
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EDMedia 2009
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Conclusion
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbatistini/3778521713/
Outlook
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analysis application
visualization of content and dynamics in the network
still some work to do
semantical analysis, RDF
Artefact-Actor-Networks
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#icl09
Steve Wheeler@timbuckteeth
Wolfgang Reinhardt@wollepb
Hendrik Drachsler@HDrachsler
Want to know more? http://twitter.com/wollepbhttp://isitjustme.dehttp://artefact-actor-networks.net
Thank you
Wolfgang ReinhardtUniversity of Paderborn
Institute of Computer ScienceWorking Group Didactics of Informatics
http://ddi.upb.de
