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Mapping the global Twitter heartbeat: The geography of Twitter

open access: yesFirst Monday, 2013
In just under seven years, Twitter has grown to count nearly 3% of the entire global population among its active users who have sent more than 170 billion 140-character messages. Today the service plays such a significant role in American culture that the Library of Congress has assembled a permanent archive of the site back to its first tweet ...
Kalev Leetaru   +4 more
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(Intending) Migrants and Occupational Downgrading: Investigating the Willingness to Leave the Health Sector Post‐Migration

open access: yesThe International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The unquenched thirst for emigration in Nigeria‐ and the increasing cost of migrating to the West‐has been established in the literature. Professionals, such as healthcare workers (HCWs), are poorly paid in Nigeria, making many seek better employment abroad.
Tunde A. Alabi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making Twitter Work: A Guide for the Uninitiated, the Skeptical, and the Pragmatic

open access: yes, 2010
This article highlights the advantages of librarians and libraries establishing a professional or institutional presence on Twitter. This basic introduction to the web service also discusses innovative ways to shape your Twitter account into a successful
Forrestal, Valerie
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Apropriações do Twitter pelo jornalismo de moda no Brasil [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Jornalismo, Florianópolis, 2012O presente trabalho investiga as apropriações das potencialidades do microblog Twitter pelo ...
Flores, Ana Marta Moreira   +1 more
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Using Twitter to recommend real-time topical news

open access: yes, 2009
Paper presented at the 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2009), New York City, NY, USA, 22-25 October 2009Recommending news stories to users, based on their preferences,has long been a favourite domain for recommender systems research. In
McCarthy, Kevin   +5 more
core   +1 more source

“Participant” Perceptions of Twitter Research Ethics

open access: yes, 2018
Social computing systems such as Twitter present new research sites that have provided billions of data points to researchers. However, the availability of public social media data has also presented ethical challenges. As the research community works to
Casey Fiesler, Nicholas Proferes
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cancer on Twitter

open access: yesCancer Medicine Journal, 2020
The way we communicate and receive information increases in speed and mode each year. Beginning with emails in the 1990s to the use of text messages and then using the Twitter, has revolutionized our communication.
openaire   +2 more sources

“Thinking Out Loud” and “Pivoting on the Fly”—An Empirical Review and Critical Incident Study of How Physicians Engage in Incidental Learning Amidst Complexity

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores incidental learning among physicians navigating uncertainty during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Using a constructivist research design, we conducted a literature review of 13 empirical studies on incidental learning in complexity and analyzed critical incident interviews with 12 emergency medicine and intensive care physicians ...
Henriette Lundgren   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who students interact with? A social network analysis perspective on the use of Twitter in language learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper reports student interaction patterns and self-reported results of using Twitter microblogging environment. The study employs longitudinal probabilistic social network analysis (SNA) to identify the patterns and trends of network dynamics.
Borau, Kerstin   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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