What’s the difference between a hashtag and a mention?

Networks of digital humanities scholars: The informational and social uses and gratifications of Twitter

Twitter and the Atomization of Teaching and Learning

Digital Humanities and the Future of Scholarship: Exclusivity, Disruption, and Leading from the Margins

Twitter was first marketed as a micro-blogging tool when it launched in 2006. Since then it has become a very robust social networking service, and has become an active home for discussion in academia. Leveraging the power of public, open discussion, it has also become an asset in teaching and learning. Course discussions once limited to the classroom can now constructively be expanded to interested parties across the globe. The article linked through the image below is an excellent primer for Twitter in Education.

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