@Student in the #University Lecture Hall: Informal Twitter Use and Shifting Walls

@Student in the #UniversityLecture Hall

Informal Twitter Use and Shifting Walls

Tara ZepelUniversity of California, San Diego

Mobility Shifts ConferenceThe New School, New York

October 11, 2011

Twitter enters walls of the #University3 days ago

Informal Twitter Use

“I drive a mustang and need cheaper insurance, any lucky ladies need a husband?”

- Purdue, Consumer sciences and Retail lecture

Informal Twitter Use

“I drive a mustang and need cheaper insurance, any lucky ladies need a husband?”

- Purdue, Consumer sciences and Retail lecture

Informal Twitter Use

“at first I felt uneasy watching this video but after she spoke in “our” language I began to understand the message”

- UCSD, Online communication and Rhetoric lecture

# Expansion

”School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching [in the classroom]. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”

- Illich, Deschooling Society (1971)

# Expansion

“class chatter”- David Parry, “Twitter for Academia” (2008)

# Expansion

spatio-temporal:

“class chatter”- David Parry, “Twitter for Academia” (2008)

# Expansion

spatio-temporal:

“Are the pine trees by the Ross bldg Tamarack, because the needles are changing colour and are falling off?”

- York University, Environmental Studies lecture

“I am not enrolled in #cat 125 – my friend @_____ is. As a UCSD alumna, I love how you are using Twitter for class :)”

- UCSD, Online communication and Rhetoric lecture

# Expansion

community of learners:

# Cohesion

# Cohesion + Adhesion

“classroom community”- David Parry, “Twitter for Academia” (2008)

# Cohesion + Adhesion

# Cohesion + Adhesion

“I drive a mustang and need cheaper insurance, any lucky ladies need a husband?”

# Cohesion + Adhesion

“I drive a mustang and need cheaper insurance, any lucky ladies need a husband?”

“What happens if you get married, and then you get divorced at 24—would your insurance go back up?”

- Purdue, Consumer sciences and Retail lecture

# Cohesion + Adhesion+ Expansion

“I drive a mustang and need cheaper insurance, any lucky ladies need a husband?”

“What happens if you get married, and then you get divorced at 24—would your insurance go back up?”

- Purdue, Consumer sciences and Retail lecture

# Expansion

# Cohesion + Adhesion

To what extent?

To what end?

To what extent? To what end?

Tara Zepelhttp://artfuturenow.com

[email protected]@artfuturenow

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