%0 Journal Article
%T Tweeting Educational Technology: A Tale of Professional Community of Practice
%A Ina Blau
%A Tami Neuthal
%J International Journal of Cyber Society and Education
%D 2012
%I Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research
%X This paper explores an Israeli professional community on Twitter practicing educational technology. Networking analysis of 42 users and 296 structural connections among them revealed that the adoption of Twitter was normally distributed and active participation was asymmetrical - 14.3% of users produced 80% of the tweets. Investment in participation was highly gratified by influence on the audience.
%K Professional Communities of Practice
%K Twitter
%K Social Network Analysis
%K Participation
%K Diffusion of Innovations
%K Uses and Gratification
%U http://www.academic-journals.org/ojs2/index.php/IJCSE/article/view/1007