[Air-L] Tracking a Tag on a Grad School Budget: Where and How can we do this?

[Amanda Licastro]

Absolutely,

I use TAGSExplorer to track my students posts when I have them live-tweet
their reading of a novel. I've done this with *Orxy and Crake* and *The
Circle. *I create a class hashtag for this, but you can track any tag in
the same way. Here is an example.

https://eng15102spring16.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/pressure-to-post/

http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=1DdAfoMsGOf2EkHJNCEmEeuSVGILSluHCG2aJoM1CJz0&gid=400689247

And here is the tool:

http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/

https://mashe.hawksey.info/2011/11/twitter-how-to-archive-event-hashtags-and-visualize-conversation/

Good luck,
Amanda

Amanda Licastro
Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Stevenson University
Doctoral Student, The Graduate Center, CUNY
http://digitocentrism.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
@amandalicastro



On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Jon Michael Wargo <wargojon at msu.edu>
wrote:

>
>
> Hello Fabulous Listserv,
>
> Just a quick question for the mind of the AIR-L hive. How can I track a
> tag in a way that is not costly (aka FREE) and breaks down analytics that
> would be helpful in a presentation to a generalist audience (e.g., # of
> unique users who used the tag, word cloud with other popular text,
> reach/scope of the #tag)? I've tried a number of suggested apps and tools
> on the social media tools page but as someone with limited proficiency with
> code I am having difficulty finding something that works.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Email me directly please.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
> Jon M. Wargo, Ph.D.
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