TY - GEN
T1 - Information seeking behaviour of aspiring undergraduates on social media
T2 - 19th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2017
AU - Dodd, Lara
AU - Chowdhury, Gobinda
AU - Harvey, Morgan
AU - Walton, Geoff
PY - 2017/11/3
Y1 - 2017/11/3
N2 - In this paper we consider how aspiring undergraduates are utilising social media to meet their information needs during their application and transition into university. In particular, we ask who some of the prominent online actors are during this period. We want to know whether hopeful students are consulting social sources online, and if so, who these conversations are with, or, about. We use term frequency analysis to process a large sample (n = 494,180) of "tweets" (social media messages from Twitter) to determine who these main actors are. Our analyses provide insights into who students are interacting with during different stages of the decision-making process and, perhaps more importantly, who they are mostly failing to engage with. This leads us to a number of potentially useful conclusions and recommendations with regard to young people's information behaviour on social media in the context of university admission.
AB - In this paper we consider how aspiring undergraduates are utilising social media to meet their information needs during their application and transition into university. In particular, we ask who some of the prominent online actors are during this period. We want to know whether hopeful students are consulting social sources online, and if so, who these conversations are with, or, about. We use term frequency analysis to process a large sample (n = 494,180) of "tweets" (social media messages from Twitter) to determine who these main actors are. Our analyses provide insights into who students are interacting with during different stages of the decision-making process and, perhaps more importantly, who they are mostly failing to engage with. This leads us to a number of potentially useful conclusions and recommendations with regard to young people's information behaviour on social media in the context of university admission.
KW - adolescents
KW - information-seeking behaviour
KW - social media
KW - teenagers
KW - twitter
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85034045412&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/publications/information-seeking-behaviour-of-aspiring-undergraduates-on-social-media-who-are-they-interacting-with(bbba5d13-342c-4e9f-a640-0037d964b068).html
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-70232-2_21
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-70232-2_21
M3 - Conference contribution book
AN - SCOPUS:85034045412
SN - 9783319702315
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 245
EP - 255
BT - Digital Libraries
A2 - Cunningham, Sally Jo
A2 - Choemprayong, Songphan
A2 - Crestani, Fabio
PB - Springer-Verlag
CY - Cham, Switzerland
Y2 - 13 November 2017 through 15 November 2017
ER -