Hide and Go Tweet: Comparing Methods for Locating Educational Hashtag Participants

• In Event: RTD - Educational Hashtags

Short Description

Although Twitter-based learning is valued for its worldwide scope, some learning spaces—including State Educational Twitter Hashtags—are purportedly focused on a particular geographic area. We used data from the Michigan-based #miched hashtag to compare three methods for determining participants’ locations and for testing the assumption that #miched users are concentrated in Michigan. We then used automated coding of locations listed in Twitter profiles to illustrate that #miched participation is highly (but not exclusively) concentrated where expected.

Authors

• Presenter: Spencer P. Greenhalgh, Michigan State University

• Contributor: Joshua Michael Rosenberg, Michigan State University

• Contributor: Matthew J. Koehler, Michigan State University