Thank you all for you kind answers! Regards, Axel On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Kathy Gill<kegill@u.washington.edu> wrote:
Axel Kittenberger wrote:
Do you have additional hints and links about the value twitter/microblogging can and could have on science? That is less doing science about the twittersphere than science going together with twitter/microblogging, scientists and institutes who/which Twitter (publicly and privately), and so on.
Hi, Alex:
My summer class (UW Master of Communication in Digital Media) is writing a book on twitter best practices: http://twitter09.wordpress.com/ and http://uwtwitterbook.com/
We did not have anyone exploring "science" per se. However, one student is analyzing how higher ed institutions are using twitter.
RE "science" and "use" -- the first thing that comes to mind is NASA and the Mars Rover. Recall that in 2008 NASA broke the story about water (ice) on mars via Twitter:
http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix/statuses/839088619 http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/mars-phoenix-tw/ http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/twitter-tells-me-nasa-has-found-water-mars
Kathy
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