Students Tweeting

By this evening I have received over 20 tweets from students asking me to share this video. We won't have time in class to watch it in its entirety but I shall include it in our class blog to show how engaged #ALES204 students are in current events and new media communication tools!


Thanks to all theses that shared the video with me.



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Lecture 8: Twitter, Facebook & Citizen Science

Lecture 8 Facebook, Twitter and Citizen Science

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Lecture 6: Twitter & Agriculture, Life & Environmental Sciences

Image from the article below via Government Technology

Have a read of this article by Lauren Katims, pertinent to today's lecture:

"There’s so much misinformation out there about farming and what farmers do. A lot of people have lost track of where their food comes from,” said Dino Giacomazzi, a fourth-generation dairy farmer in central California who travels around the country training farmers on social media use. He also has a popular blog, Facebook page and Twitter account (@dairydino) with thousands of farmer followers.
“We invite people onto our farms through the Internet,” he said. “We let people see exactly what it is that we do.”

[...]

A recent conference on farmers and social media hosted by the University of California, Davis, brought 80 attendees, including www.agchat.org president Jeff Fowle, who currently has more than 25,000 Twitter followers.
Earlier this year, he and a group of farmers created the AgChat Foundation, a nonprofit designed to empower more farmers to leverage social media as a tool. The group hosts weekly discussions on Twitter about various topics and how they affect the agriculture industry.
The foundation hopes to start giving technology scholarships to needy farmers by the time they get back in the fields this spring, donating smartphones, aircards, flipcams, laptops, iPads and in some cases high-speed Internet.
The goal, the foundation said in an e-mail, “is to encourage more people to interact with farmers and get their questions answered about farming directly from the source.”


Giacomazzi added, “It’s about selling the industry; it’s about saving the lifestyle of these farmers. And we’ll do that at whatever cost to us.”

Today's Outline

•Review of Twitter
•Twitter Search
•Twitter Analytics
•Twitter & its Role in Science
•Activity
•Further Reading: Twitter Guidebook

•Homework



Hashtag Activity:

•With a partner:
•Search #AgChat on Twitter
•Peruse the 10-20 most recent tweets
•Discuss: What do you notice?
–Who is tweeting
–Are there any re-occurring topics?
–Are there citations/links to other sources?
–Do many tweets include (links to) images or videos?

Activity :: Following Meaningful Content

•Find a scientist/farmer/someone in your field on Twitter
•A useful place to start is TweepML and search for “scientists”: http://tweepml.org/search?query=scientists&x=0&y=0
•Or try wefollow: http://wefollow.com/twitter/scientist
•Tell @JessL WHY you chose to follow a particular scientist & HOW their tweets will be meaningful to your studies

Homework:

•Tweet two short reflections on what you learnt today. Think specifically about case studies of how people in science/ag use Twitter.
•Remember to mark all class tweets @JessL and use our #ALES204 hashtag
•Read “Why Twitter Will Endure” - David Carr, NY Times, 2010: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/weekinreview/03carr.html



Of interest for further reading:

Understanding how Twitter is used to spread scientific messages

Letierce, Julie and Passant, Alexandre and Breslin, John and Decker, Stefan (2010) Understanding how Twitter is used to spread scientific messages. In: Proceedings of the WebSci10: Extending the Frontiers of Society On-Line, April 26-27th, 2010, Raleigh, NC: US.

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Abstract

According to a survey we recently conducted, Twitter was ranked in the top three services used by Semantic Web researchers to spread information. In order to understand how Twitter is practically used for spreading scientific messages, we captured tweets containing the official hashtags of three conferences and studied (1) the type of content that researchers are more likely to tweet, (2) how they do it, and finally (3) if their tweets can reach other communities — in addition to their own. In addition, we also conducted some interviews to complete our understanding of researchers’ motivation to use Twitter during conferences.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Twitter, Scientific Communication, Semantic Web Community, Tagging, Science Dissemination
Subjects:	Web Science Events > Web Science 2010
ID Code:	314
Deposited By:	W S T Administrator
Deposited On:	15 Mar 2010 10:09
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2011 16:57

Lecture 6 2012 twitter & science

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Social Media and the Federal Government

Here is an article that students will find interesting, via student Brenda Le on Twitter:

(you can read the entire article here)

Simons: Federal government catches up to social media

 

Will repeal 1938 law that banned ‘premature transmission’ of election results

 

BY PAULA SIMONS, EDMONTONJOURNAL.COM JANUARY 13, 2012

 

 

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MP Tim Uppal’s twitter feed referring to his proposed legislation to relax the rules on Internet broadcast of election results in Canada.

Photograph by: Twitter, edmontonjournal.com

EDMONTON - Friday morning, Tim Uppal, MP for Edmonton-Sherwood Park, and the Harper government’s Minister of State for Democratic Reform made history.

Live, on Twitter.

Shortly after 10:30 a.m., EST, Uppal took to the Twitterverse to announce that Ottawa intends to repeal the 1938 ban on “premature transmission” of federal election results. If the bill passes, it will no longer be a criminal offence for a Canadians to discuss live election returns on Twitter or Facebook. Nor will it be a crime for newspapers, broadcasters or independent bloggers to use their websites to report election numbers across the country in real time.

“Canadians should have freedom to communicate about election results without fear of heavy penalty,” he said, from his account, @MinTimUppal.

Only after issuing the good news in a series of 10 pithy tweets — five in English, five in French — did Uppal hold a formal press conference with Ottawa reporters.

Uppal says breaking his own story on Twitter seemed like the right thing to do — symbolically speaking. And if his cute social media tactics encouraged more people to start following him on Twitter? Well, he’s good with that, too.

“This is about us saying, as a government, that Canadians should not be penalized for using modern technology,” says Uppal. “We’ve seen the way that people use Facebook and Twitter that this ban is unenforceable. It’s out of date. The use of this technology is important to Canadians. It’s become normal and we should not be punishing people for doing that.”