#backchanneling

[lemasney]

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[socialmediained-blog]

Social media are fundamentally changing core practices in various industries. Although surveys indicate that social media are impacting social scientists, we know little about how education scholars, specifically, use social media for their work or professional learning. This article explores how educational scholars incorporated the social media, Twitter, as a conference backchannel. Using qualitative interview data collected from members of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and considering previous analysis of AERA conference tweet data, we describe participants’ purposes and practices and their perceptions of how using this social media impacts participation in the conference community. We discuss implications for those concerned with research dissemination, faculty professional development, and academic identity.

[bethesound]

Only on page two and this comes up

"For example, when the Britney Spears episode of ht television show Glee aired on Fox in September of 2010, the backchanneling produced over 285,000 tweets about the show. That was back when Twitter averaged about 90 million tweets per day and was just shy of 5 percent of registered American users."

[thingsforteachers]

Purdue University, in Indiana, developed its own backchannel system, Hot Seat, two years ago, at a cost of $84,000. It lets students post comments and questions, which can be read on laptops or smartphones or projected on a large screen. Sugato Chakravarty, who lectures about personal finance, pauses to answer those that have been “voted up” by his audience. Before Hot Seat, “I could never get people to speak up,” Professor Chakravarty said. “Everybody’s intimidated.” “It’s clear to me,” he added, “that absent this kind of social media interaction, there are things students think about that normally they’d never say.”

Students speak up in class, silently, via social media: NY Times