Social Networks of Teachers in Twitter Hernán Gil Ramírez College of Education Carrera 27 #10-02 Barrio Alamos Pereira, Risaralda (Colombia) ZIP code 660003 hegil@utp.edu.co Rosa María Guilleumas García College of Humanities and Fine Arts Carrera 27 #10-02...
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Social Networks of Teachers in Twitter Hernán Gil Ramírez College of Education Carrera 27 #10-02 Barrio Alamos Pereira, Risaralda (Colombia) ZIP code 660003 hegil@utp.edu.co Rosa María Guilleumas García College of Humanities and Fine Arts Carrera 27 #10-02 Barrio Alamos Pereira, Risaralda (Colombia) ZIP code 660003 roguiga@utp.edu.co Abstract This research aimed at identifying the trends in the topics of interest of the tweets pub- lished by 43 expert professors in the field of ICT and education and the network of their followers and followed in Tweeter, as well as their relationship with the characteristics of that network. With this purpose, NodeXL was employed to import, directly and auto- matically, 185.517 tweets which gave origin to a network of connections of 49.229 nodes. Data analysis involved social network analy- sis, text extraction and text mining using No- deXL, Excel and T-Lab. The research hy- pothesis was that there is a direct correlation between the trends identified
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