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Language, twitter and academic conferences

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Using Twitter during academic conferences is a way of engaging and connecting an audience inherently multicultural by the nature of scientific collaboration. English is expected to be the lingua franca bridging the communication and integration between native speakers of different mother tongues. However, little research has been done to support this assumption. In this paper we analyzed how integrated language communities are by analyzing the scholars’ tweets used in 26 Computer Science conf...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Oxford Internet Institute
Role:
Author
Publisher:
ACM Digital Library Publisher's website
Host title:
Hypertext 2015: Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media
Journal:
26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media Journal website
Publication date:
2015-09-01
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pubs:631351
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uuid:06428541-8ea1-4b03-9b70-0e8a41c27ef8
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pubs:631351
Source identifiers:
631351
Deposit date:
2016-06-30

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