[Air-L] Twitter and science/humanities

[Axel Kittenberger]

Thank you all for you kind answers!
Regards, Axel

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Kathy Gill<kegill at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Axel Kittenberger wrote:
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>> Do you have additional hints and links about the value
>> twitter/microblogging can and could have on science? That is less
>> doing science about the twittersphere than science going together with
>> twitter/microblogging, scientists and institutes who/which Twitter
>> (publicly and privately), and so on.
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> Hi, Alex:
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> My summer class (UW Master of Communication in Digital Media) is writing a
> book on twitter best practices: http://twitter09.wordpress.com/ and
> http://uwtwitterbook.com/
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> We did not have anyone exploring "science" per se. However, one student is
> analyzing how higher ed institutions are using twitter.
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> RE "science" and "use" -- the first thing that comes to mind is NASA and the
> Mars Rover. Recall that in 2008 NASA broke the story about water (ice) on
> mars via Twitter:
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> http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix/statuses/839088619
> http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/mars-phoenix-tw/
> http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/twitter-tells-me-nasa-has-found-water-mars
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> Kathy
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> Kathy E. Gill
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