Twitter and Microblogging: Political, Professional and Personal Practices

44 speakers

Coverage of Twitter and Microblogging: Political, Professional and Personal Practices

55 sessions

Day 1 Wednesday 10th April 2013

• 10:00am Registration

• 11:00am Introduction

• 11:30am Plenary: Online freedom and repressive law: The paradox of digital journalism

  presented by Lee Salter

• 12:30pm Lunch

• 1:40pm Search as sociality: Trends as collaboration between people and platform

  presented by Elizabeth Merkhofer

• 1:40pm Building rapport in conference live tweets

  presented by Giorgia Riboni

• 2:15pm Polyphony of discourse on and about Twitter: Analysis of Twitter uses in the European Parliament, Commission and Council

  presented by Sandrine Roginsky

• 2:15pm Titanic’s journey on Twitter: An interactive narrative of myth and cultural memory

  presented by Photini Vrikki

• 2:15pm Turkish MPs use of personal pronoun ʺweʺ in Twitter community: A genre-based political discourse analysis

  presented by Emre Yağlı

• 2:45pm Break

• 3:15pm Elite tweets: Analysing the twitter communication patterns of Labour Party Peers in the House of Lords

  presented by Darren Lilleker

• 3:15pm Uses and risks of microblogging in organisations

  presented by Soureh Latif Shabgahi

• 3:15pm Of bees and belligerence: The #royalprank and the Twitter swarm

  presented by Emma Tonkin

• 3:50pm Sociotechnical mediation in learning communities: Twitter in distance learning

  presented by Xavier Inghilterra

• 3:50pm More than just passing notes in class? Twitter backchannels as new literacy practice

  presented by Tony McNeill

• 3:50pm Twitter, politics and gender: Why are Italian women politicians less interactive than men?

  presented by Stefania Spina

• 4:30pm Twitter Q&A with Nathan Jurgenson (@nathanjurgenson)

  presented by Nathan Jurgenson and Johnny Unger

• 7:00pm Dinner

• 7:30pm Facebook is like Disco and Twitter is like Punk

  presented by Rebekka Kill

Day 2 Thursday 11th April 2013

21 sessions presented by 44 speakers

• Journalism 1
• Twitter 1
• cricket 1

Day 3 Friday 12th April 2013

• 9:35am Cracking the code: Towards a semiotic understanding of Twitter and its use by media fans

  presented by Rhiannon Bury

• 9:35am What is a stock tweet? A corpus-driven analysis on linguistic features of stock tweets

  presented by Sheng Li

• 9:35am Reciprocity and preaching to the converted: A cross-national comparitive analysis of politicians' social and communication netwo

  presented by Maurice Vergeer

• 10:10am Twitteraction: Twitter, musician’s deaths and celebrity reactions

  presented by Paula Hearsum

• 10:10am Use of Weibo by UK universities and Chinese students: A study of intercultural micro-blogging

  presented by Nick Pearce

• 10:10am The role of Twitter in political agenda-setting during elections: Findings from the 2012 Elections in Belgium

  presented by Pieter Verdegem

• 10:40am Break

• 11:15am Plenary: Saying ‘sorry’: Corporate apologies posted on Twitter

  presented by Ruth Page

Unscheduled sessions

• Social literacy, professional identity and the personal brand for the socially-impaired (Visual Presentation)

  presented by Penny Andrews

• Self-praise and indirect complaints as self-disclosure strategies on Twitter (Visual Presentation)

  presented by Daria Dayter

• Online newspapers and Twitter: The use of Twitter by English, German and Polish newspapers (Visual Presentation)

  presented by Anna Tereszkiewicz

• Social networks, social isolation and cyber-scepticism: Evaluating Twitter for users with disability? (Visual Presentation)

  presented by Larissa Tonkin

• Utilising the networking potential of Twitter at online conferences (Visual Presentation)

  presented by Amy Antonio

• #Elections under crisis: Twitter and the Greek political landscape (Visual Presentation)

  presented by Georgia Gioltzidou

• Comparative review of literature on microblogging use and risk in organisational and educational settings (Visual Presentation)

  presented by Nordiana Ahmad Kharman Shah and Soureh Latif Shabgahi

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