Are You Talking to Me?

Chorley, Martin; Mottershead, Glyn

doi:10.1080/17512786.2016.1166978

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“…Although Twitter used by a smaller percentage of Australians than other social media platforms, it has been used by researchers interested in examining social phenomena due to its publicly accessible Application Programming Interface (API) (Chorley and Mottershead 2016), and is more easily accessible than other social networking sites such as Facebook. The API is made of two parts; the search or REST API or the streaming API.…”

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Keeping it ‘inside the fence’: an examination of responses to a farm-animal welfare issue on Twitter

2018

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Social media sites have become common sources of information about current affairs, and animal-activist organisations, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), use these networks as campaign tools to raise awareness against animal agriculture. The aim of the present study was to understand how an animal-welfare issue was discussed in Twitter, in Australia. Twitter Application Programing Interface data featuring keywords and hashtags were initially collected between April and May 2014 to examine tweets on animal-welfare issues in the absence of a triggering event. In July 2014, PETA released footage portraying ill-treatment of sheep in Australian shearing sheds, generating 9610 tweets in 7 days, including themes such as disgust, condemnation of the cruelty, and calls to boycott the wool industry. PETA’s social-media campaign began 24 h before comment in conventional news media online, highlighting the role of social media in leading conventional media campaigning. Associated Twitter activity from the wool industry was limited. It is concluded that Twitter is not currently an effective medium for conversations between producers and the community about farm-animal welfare, despite encouragement from industry. While there are positives for producers and industry to be on Twitter, including the promotion of their business and communication within their micro-publics, Twitter as a platform may not be ideal for generating a dialogue between producers and the community. Further research into how people engage with the content, not just through the study of retweets and amount of traffic, is required to understand whether social media has potential to change attitudes towards animal production.

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Keeping it ‘inside the fence’: an examination of responses to a farm-animal welfare issue on Twitter

2018

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“…The data gathered have been used to investigate issues around racial diversity in UK football management and how Twitter users discussed the implications of an NFL style Rooney Rule in the league pyramid. The data were obtained from Twitter's webpages using a Python library designed for open-source intelligence investigations, adapting a model developed by Chorley and Mottershead (2016). Twint 3 allows researchers to gather public-facing data that cannot be accessed via an API, 4 due to Twitter's rules which block historic data.…”

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Investigating Online Fan Responses to the Rooney Rule in English Football

Kilvington¹,

Cable²,

Cowell³

et al. 2022

Research in the Sociology of Sport

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“…Recent discussions among educators in journalism and mass communication have emphasized a definitive urge to carefully integrate new technological knowledge and skills in order to equip students with quality education (Luttrell et al ., 2020). Such technological knowledge and skills are essential to bridge the gap between “traditional journalism education and training and the emerging requirements of the news industry” (Chorley and Mottershead, 2019, p. 860).…”

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Facilitating computing education to graduate students in journalism and public relations from Dewey's lens: prototyping

Sharafeddin¹,

Samarji²

2022

JARHE

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PurposeIn a technological era driven by coding, programming and artificial intelligence (AI), there is more need than ever to develop computing skills and knowledge for non-specialist students. Nonetheless, the literature on computer science teaching methods of non-scientific majors is not as comprehensive as that of scientific ones.Design/methodology/approachPedagogically, the authors designed and implemented prototyping from John Dewey's pragmatic epistemological lens. Using a mixed methods approach, the authors tested the effectiveness and efficiency of this approach within the same course over four semesters across four academic years.FindingsAs an epistemological pedagogic device, prototyping facilitated learning by doing and experimenting and stimulated graduate students' self-directed learning, engagement and their overall ownership of the learning and teaching process, changing their role from being merely passive recipients of “strange, awkward and unfamiliar” knowledge to active constructors of “relevant and exciting” content knowledge. Such a change was reflected in the significant progress students made, driven by their commitment, motivation and enthusiasm, irrespective of their prior knowledge and age (Generations X, Y and Z). Prototyping also served as an avenue for a “Deweyian Reflection”, where graduate students, after internalizing the acquired computing skills and knowledge, started transferring such skills and knowledge to their professions (journalism and public relations (PR)) and daily practices.Research limitations/implicationsFindings from this study will add to the literature review on this subject matter and will inform future case studies in computer science education for graduate students from non-scientific backgrounds.Practical implicationsThis paper reveals that learning by doing/experimenting needs to be accompanied by in-depth reflection to enable students to transfer the acquired knowledge and skills to other settings and contexts beyond that of the lesson, task, or project in hand.Originality/valueThere is little research published on introductory programming courses offered to non-specialized students (i.e. students from non-scientific backgrounds). This study contributes to the body of research on how to effectively engage these students in programming courses informed by John Dewey's pragmatic lens/epistemological lens.

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Are You Talking to Me?

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

Keeping it ‘inside the fence’: an examination of responses to a farm-animal welfare issue on Twitter

Keeping it ‘inside the fence’: an examination of responses to a farm-animal welfare issue on Twitter

Investigating Online Fan Responses to the Rooney Rule in English Football

Facilitating computing education to graduate students in journalism and public relations from Dewey's lens: prototyping

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