#Hokies Tweets Network Visualization: How I extracted Tweets via TAGS 6 and visualized them in Gephi

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. A professional development goal of mine is to learn a lot more about social network analysis and visualization of social media data. This area has grown increasingly valuable and important in our field.  And I believe we all need to have at least […]

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My Fall 2014 Social Media Class Project In Review

In the last few posts, I’ve been writing about my Social Media class and the semester project we’ve been doing. To recap, students create a social media content strategy for our department’s social media (the details of the assignment are on the previous post). They then use this plan to create content for the department. […]

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You Can Tweet a Quote Directly From a Pew Report

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I teach Comm 335 Writing Across Platforms (see syllabus), a class that in part looks at writing news releases and other content for the web. One tactic we talk about is creating Tweetable content for our social media releases assignment. PitchEngine – the […]

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Sentiment Analysis using Content Analysis Software: Project Assignment

This 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 […]

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Teaching Computer-Assisted Content Analysis with Yoshikoder

This 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 […]

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Applied Research Class: Sentiment Analysis Project Reflection

This 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 […]

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Teaching The Applied Communication Research Class

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Metrics, Metrics, Metrics! I hear it everywhere I turn. :) More than ever, we need to be teaching our students research skills. This Spring 2014 semester I am really excited to be teaching an applied Communication Research class! For two years at Utah […]

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