This work is geared to analyze informal learning processes in student conferences. In particular, it compares social networkinteractions occurring in conference-related Facebook pages - i. e. Taiwan-America Student Conference (TASC), Japan-AmericaStudent Conference (JASC) and Korea-America Student Conference (KASC) pages - within a period starting 30 days before andfinishing 30 days after the application deadlines. This empirical study has been realized by adopting open source visualization toolsand techniques freely available on the software market in order to perform Social Network Analysis (SNA) in a transparent andreproducible way. Such an analysis provides interesting information on interaction dynamics, emerging hot topics and sub-groupformation of attending students.
A Comparison of Intercultural Student Communities in Online Social Networks
Giglio C
;PALMIERI, Roberto
2017-01-01
Abstract
This work is geared to analyze informal learning processes in student conferences. In particular, it compares social networkinteractions occurring in conference-related Facebook pages - i. e. Taiwan-America Student Conference (TASC), Japan-AmericaStudent Conference (JASC) and Korea-America Student Conference (KASC) pages - within a period starting 30 days before andfinishing 30 days after the application deadlines. This empirical study has been realized by adopting open source visualization toolsand techniques freely available on the software market in order to perform Social Network Analysis (SNA) in a transparent andreproducible way. Such an analysis provides interesting information on interaction dynamics, emerging hot topics and sub-groupformation of attending students.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
