Microblogging in Educational Settings in College: Use of Twitter Beyond Teacher Assignments

Microblogging in Educational Settings in College: Use of Twitter Beyond Teacher Assignments

The impact of Twitter can be strongly felt across a number of areas of professional and day-to-day life. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods, this article analyzes how young college students create content on Twitter in an academic setting, and how they perceive this content creation....

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Main Authors: Tejedor, Santiago, Coromina, Óscar, Pla-Campas, Gil
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Published: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Educativo 2021
Online Access:https://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/3565
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spelling redie-article-35652024-05-08T19:59:26Z Microblogging in Educational Settings in College: Use of Twitter Beyond Teacher Assignments Microblogging en escenarios curriculares universitarios: el uso de Twitter más allá del encargo docente Tejedor, Santiago Coromina, Óscar Pla-Campas, Gil educación superior competencia mediática redes sociales higher education media literacy social media The impact of Twitter can be strongly felt across a number of areas of professional and day-to-day life. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods, this article analyzes how young college students create content on Twitter in an academic setting, and how they perceive this content creation. To this end, a purposive sample of three groups of students was formed, a sample of 10,291 published tweets was collected, and a focus group was set up for each group of students. Among other findings, this study shows that students prioritize academic instructions and requirements and report that the way they use the platform depends on whether it is for an academic assignment or not.   El impacto de Twitter se percibe de forma contundente en diferentes ámbitos del desempeño profesional y cotidiano. Combinando métodos cuantitativos y cualitativos se analiza cómo los jóvenes universitarios crean contenidos en Twitter desde el entorno académico, y cómo perciben esta actividad. Para ello se conformó una muestra intencional de tres grupos de estudiantes, se recolectó una muestra de 10 291 tuits publicados y se desarrolló un grupo focal por cada grupo universitario. Entre otros aspectos, el trabajo evidencia que los estudiantes priorizan las exigencias y directrices académicas y señalan que la utilización que hacen de la plataforma varía en función de si se trata, o no, de un encargo académico. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Educativo 2021-10-14 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion text/html application/pdf text/xml https://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/3565 10.24320/redie.2021.23.e20.3565 Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa; Vol. 23 (2021); 1 - 13 Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa; Vol. 23 (2021); 1 - 13 1607-4041 spa https://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/3565/2132 https://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/3565/2133 https://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/3565/2151 Derechos de autor 2021 Santiago Tejedor, Óscar Coromina, Gil Pla-Campas https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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Coromina, Óscar
Pla-Campas, Gil
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Coromina, Óscar
Pla-Campas, Gil
Microblogging in Educational Settings in College: Use of Twitter Beyond Teacher Assignments
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Coromina, Óscar
Pla-Campas, Gil
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title Microblogging in Educational Settings in College: Use of Twitter Beyond Teacher Assignments
title_short Microblogging in Educational Settings in College: Use of Twitter Beyond Teacher Assignments
title_full Microblogging in Educational Settings in College: Use of Twitter Beyond Teacher Assignments
title_fullStr Microblogging in Educational Settings in College: Use of Twitter Beyond Teacher Assignments
title_full_unstemmed Microblogging in Educational Settings in College: Use of Twitter Beyond Teacher Assignments
title_sort microblogging in educational settings in college: use of twitter beyond teacher assignments
description The impact of Twitter can be strongly felt across a number of areas of professional and day-to-day life. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods, this article analyzes how young college students create content on Twitter in an academic setting, and how they perceive this content creation. To this end, a purposive sample of three groups of students was formed, a sample of 10,291 published tweets was collected, and a focus group was set up for each group of students. Among other findings, this study shows that students prioritize academic instructions and requirements and report that the way they use the platform depends on whether it is for an academic assignment or not.  
publisher Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Educativo
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