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International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2012 This research applied a mixed-method design to explore how best to promote learning in authentic contexts in an online graduate course in instructional message design.
Yu-Chang Hsu, Yu-Hui Ching
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Public Response to “the MOOC Movement” in China: Examining the Time Series of Microblogging
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015 In China, microblogging is an extremely popular activity and is proving to be an effective mechanism to gauge perceptions about social phenomena. Between 2010 and 2015 Sina Weibo, China’s largest microblogging website, generated 95,015 postings from 62 ...
Jingjing Zhang +3 more
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Utilization of Social Media In Marketing Classes [PDF]
, 2013 The goal of this paper is to highlight how instructors may integrate the different social media into various marketing classes. The paper will address the major social networks, and then follow with discussions of microblogging, media sites, and social ...
Allen, Charlotte
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Providing guidance on Backstage, a novel digital backchannel for large class teaching [PDF]
, 2011 Many articles in the last couple of years argued that it is necessary to promote the active participation of students in lectures with large audiences. One approach to make students actively participate in a lecture is to use a digital backchannel, i.e ...
Baumgart, Daniel +3 more
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Ranking Approaches for Microblog Search [PDF]
2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2010 Ranking microblogs, such as tweets, as search results for a query is challenging, among other things because of the sheer amount of microblogs that are being generated in real time, as well as the short length of each individual microblog. In this paper, we describe several new strategies for ranking microblogs in a real-time search engine.
Nagmoti, Rinkesh +2 more
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Twitter and Sentiment Analysis for Wildfire Heat Mapping
Expert Systems, Volume 42, Issue 11, November 2025.ABSTRACT Nowadays, automated intelligent systems play an increasingly vital role in aiding decision‐making processes across various fields. Firefighting represents a crucial area where accurate information gathering is paramount for efficient resource allocation.
Catarina Silva +5 more
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Emergence, Evolution and Scaling of Online Social Networks [PDF]
, 2014 This work was partially supported by AFOSR under Grant No. FA9550-10-1-0083, NSF under Grant No. CDI-1026710, NSF of China under Grants Nos. 61473060 and 11275003, and NBRPC under Grant No. 2010CB731403.
Huang, Zi-Gang +4 more
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Clip Voice: Misogyny and the Renegotiation of a Gendered Vocal Style in Chinese Digital Discourse
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 5, Page 348-359, November 2025.ABSTRACT The participatory culture of social media allows women's voices to be heard but also parodied and policed. On Chinese social media platforms, where performers rapidly adopt and transform vocal trends for engagement, discourse on gendered vocal styles has proliferated.
Zichuan Yu, Rebecca Lurie Starr
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An overview study of twitter in the UK local government [PDF]
, 2012 Copyright @ 2012 Brunel UniversityMicroblogging applications are becoming a momentous element of the public sector social media agenda. The potential of Twitter to update the public with frequent, concise and real-time content has motivated many pubic ...
Panagiotopoulos, P, Sams, S
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Twittering the Boko Haram Uprising in Nigeria: Investigating Pragmatic Acts in the Social Media [PDF]
, 2013 This paper investigates pragmatic acts in the discourse of tweeters and online feedback comments on the activities of Boko Haram, a terrorist group in Nigeria. The tweets and comments illustrate acts used to express revolutionary feelings and reflect
Adegoke, Adetunji, Chiluwa, Innocent
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