A Social Media Education Blog by Matthew J. Kushin, Ph.D.
I’m back from a great trip to ICA! The conference was filled with inspiring and informative panels. And it was great to see colleagues and friends! I want to take a quick minute to share a post summarizing a great panel I attended. Since Mary Joyce (@MetaActivism) summarizes the post here and the capabilities of the […]
Continue reading ICA Conference Panel: Social Media DataThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Hope everyone’s week is off to a great start! It is very busy here. Kelin and I just returned from a weeklong trip to Poland. We went to Krakow and Warsaw. I’m leaving early Thursday morning to head the International Communication Association conference in […]
Continue reading Back from Poland and off to ICA 2014 in Seattle!This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. It is hard to believe that the 2013-2014 academic year is over. Summer is upon us. It was a super busy year. I had so many ideas for things I wanted to blog about, and never got around to: Like my final project […]
Continue reading My 2014 Summer Plans: Social media planning for an international conferenceThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. In the last two posts, I’ve been discussing the Yoshikoder sentiment analysis project in my Communication Research class here at Shepherd University. My first post looked at the project in general. And the second, most recent post, looked at how to teach computer-assisted […]
Continue reading Sentiment Analysis using Content Analysis Software: Project AssignmentThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Last blog post I discussed the second project in my applied research class, a sentiment analysis of Tweets using Yoshikoder – a free computer-assisted content analysis program from Harvard. As promised, I want to share my assignment, and my handout for students that […]
Continue reading Teaching Computer-Assisted Content Analysis with YoshikoderThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I began this semester with the intention of blogging a bit about my applied research class. I provided an overview of it and a copy of the syllabus on an earlier post. But since writing that post, I’ve yet to do a follow […]
Continue reading Applied Research Class: Sentiment Analysis Project ReflectionThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. This is the 3rd and final #TryThis! post I had planned from several months ago. I never got a chance to post it… until now! Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to get students thinking about topics, discussing them, […]
Continue reading #TryThis! A Technique For Enhancing Teamwork, Discussion In Class