• DocumentCode
    1782880
  • Title

    Tweeting in an educational community

  • Author

    Silveira Sampaio, Jorge Manuel ; Rolland Sobral, Sonia

  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    18-21 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    In recent years there has been a big development of Information Technology and Communication (ICT). Given the paradigm of society, Information Society, constantly with changes and new challenges, which the schools of the 1st cycle of basic education can´t stay apart. This study pretends to infer the interactions between the school and users, mediated by the microblogging system - the Twitter. This research is an analysis of the use of Twitter as communication support, holding that this channel constituted an asset for closer relationships. We want to determine if the use of a microblogging system is a favorable sharing, construction and fellowship among educators space.
  • Keywords
    computer aided instruction; social networking (online); ICT; Twitter; communication support; educational community; educators space; information society; information technology and communication; microblogging system; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Facebook; Information technology; Internet; Irrigation; Twitter; Communication; Information Technology and Communication; Microblogging; Twitter;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2014 9th Iberian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Barcelona
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CISTI.2014.6877063
  • Filename
    6877063