Archiving Academic Tweets: The Digital Backchannel as an Ephemeral Archive.
While both Twitter and backchannel discourse have been previously studied, analyzed, and theorized, there has not yet been an investigation of how live tweeting during an academic conference creates a backchannel conversation that is an ephemeral digital archive. Recognizing the importance of the ba...
| Publicado en: | Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 12 - 13 |
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Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
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