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Twitter Tag

Contributed by

Bria Sinnott

The goal of this in-class activity is to help students relate database searching to something they already have familiarity with. This is interdisciplinary and could be adapted for any subject or database. Students will explore a timely topic on Twitter using a hashtag and note bias, tone, authority, and related hashtags before conducting a similar search on a library database or discovery tool. Students and instructors then discuss similarities and differences between both searches and their results. 

Resource Statistics

Resource Type(s)
Activity
Worksheet
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed
Authority is Constructed and Contextual
Research as Inquiry
Searching as Strategic Exploration
Discipline(s)
Communication Studies
Interdisciplinary
Journalism
Multidisciplinary
Not Discipline Specific
Type of Institution
Community or Junior College
College
University
Scope
Classroom-level
Course-level
College-level
Institution-level
License Assigned
CC Attribution License CC-BY

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