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标题：A Comparison of Intercultural Student Communities in Online Social Networks
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作者：Carlo Giglio ; Carlo Giglio ; Roberto Palmieri 等
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2017
卷号：237
页码：792-797
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2017.02.148
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：Abstract This work is geared to analyze informal learning processes in student conferences. In particular, it compares social network interactions occurring in conference-related Facebook pages - i. e. Taiwan-America Student Conference (TASC), Japan-America Student Conference (JASC) and Korea-America Student Conference (KASC) pages - within a period starting 30 days before and finishing 30 days after the application deadlines. This empirical study has been realized by adopting open source visualization tools and techniques freely available on the software market in order to perform Social Network Analysis (SNA) in a transparent and reproducible way. Such an analysis provides interesting information on interaction dynamics, emerging hot topics and sub-group formation of attending students.
关键词：Social Network Analysis;Informal Learning;Online Communities;Learning Patterns;Facebook