Today, we will begin by introducing Tyler Easterbrook, who will be available to help us with research aspects of the class.
Next, we will discuss our reading.
Next, we will get started collecting some tweets. Before beginning, you will need to identify some hashtags associated with topics that you might like to take up during the semester. We will conduct a brief in-class brainstorming exercise.
You will then do some searching on your own and come up with a list of potential hashtags to study.
Once you have some potential topics, we will work through the details of archiving tweets in class, but here are some links that will be needed:
An active account on Twitter.
Instructions for creating a Twitter Archive Google Spreadsheet (TAGS).
You will also need a google account with access to your google drive.
I will walk us through the process of collecting tweets.
We will next review our upcoming assignments.
For homework, create at least one TAGS sheet for a hashtag that you want to study for this unit and complete this reading exercise.