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LRDG: #iamscience: Solidarity and boundaries on science twitter
Date: 16 October 2012 Time: 1 - 2 pm
Venue: B 89, County South
Please note the change of venue: B89, County South, Lancaster University.
Greg Myers (Lancaster University) will be speaking on:
This paper draws on a study of ten Twitter feeds by scientists. First I give an overview showing how a corpus of science tweets differs from a reference corpus of other specialist tweets. I compare the different styles and functions of science tweets in my corpus. Then I look in detail at three episodes of interaction around processes of publication, showing how the scientists develop solidarity, draw boundaries, and convey a sense of scientific work.
Event website: http://literacy.lancs.ac.uk/lrdg/Current_Academic_Year.htm
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Who can attend: Anyone
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Associated staff: Greg Myers (Linguistics and English Language)
Organising departments and research centres: Educational Research, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, Linguistics and English Language
Keywords: Digital literacies, Twitter
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