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A qualitative analysis of information dissemination through twitter in a digital library
Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on digital libraries, pp 339-340
10 Jun 2012
Abstract
This study examines the use of Twitter in a digital library, the Internet Public Library (ipl2), to understand the content and dissemination patterns of Twitter messages posted by the ipl2. We conducted a content analysis on ipl2's messages on Twitter to develop a categorization of the type of tweets, and examined retweets and the active users who retweeted ipl2 tweets. We present our analysis of four areas related to the tweets: motivation, content, audience, and sources. Active users are categorized into eight groups. The research findings contribute to a further understanding of the actual use of Twitter in a digital library.
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- Title
- A qualitative analysis of information dissemination through twitter in a digital library
- Creators
- Hae Min Kim - Drexel UniversityChristopher Yang - Drexel UniversityEileen Abels - Drexel UniversityMi Zhang - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on digital libraries, pp 339-340
- Conference
- JCDL '12: 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 12th (Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 10 Jun 2012–14 Jun 2012)
- Series
- Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Number of pages
- 2
- Resource Type
- Conference poster
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science; Drexel University Libraries
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84863544780
- Other Identifier
- 991014982204104721