Twitteracy: Tweeting as a New Literacy Practice

An Analysis of Twitter Usage Among Startups in Europe

“…Rejection of other hypotheses could be interpreted that the average quantity of the tweets, followers, those the founders followed, and period spent on Twitter per country do not have an impact on the size of the investment startups receive and distribution of investment per capita. Therefore, it isn't about how much is tweeted, however it could relate to the country level of Twitteracy (Greenhow & Gleason, 2012). Within the startup ecosystem, much more importance was given to the founders' characteristics than to company traction (sales volume and user base) and other investors already invested.…”

Motivaciones de uso de las redes sociales para el desarrollo del capital social de las mujeres de entorno rural

“…Desde esta perspectiva diversos estudios (Greenhow & Gleason, 2012;Greenhow & Robelia, 2009;Hall, 2009) han puesto de relieve la necesidad de desarrollar estrategias educativas aprovechando estos nuevos entornos con fines formativos para ampliar el capital social de los ciudadanos.…”

Professional Online Presence and Learning Networks: Educating for Ethical Use of Social Media

“…It is rare now to attend a conference in teacher education without a corresponding Twitter hashtag and a series of interest groups emerging. In a similar vein, social media can function as a "backchannel" for communication within or between classes, so that students and teachers continue to share alongside formal channels (Greenhow & Gleason, 2012).…”

“…Importantly, networks enable questions to be promptly answered (Richardson & Mancabelli, 2011). For some, social media is about building relationships (Greenhow & Gleason, 2012;McCarty, 2011;Nolan, 2013), giving and receiving support (Lupton, 2014), and mitigating feelings of isolation (Wright, 2010). For many, social networks constitute personal/professional learning environments and communities of practice (Lim, Agostinho, Harper, & Chicaro, 2014).…”

“…To further research, Greenhow and Gleason (2012) highlight the importance of looking at participant perspectives on social media experiences, and call for studies of teachers' purposes for social media integration. Davis, Deil-Amen, Rios-Aguilar and González Canché (2012) suggest there is a need to look at less traditional students, distance students, and those who are older and more isolated from campus community.…”