Some useful resources:
- A storify of the hashtag
- If you don’t have social media, you are no one: How social media enriches conferences for some but risks isolating other
- The Academic Twitterazzi
- An idea is a dangerous thing to quarantine
- Tweeting out loud: ethics, knowledge and social media in academe
Some live tweeting policies and guides:
- http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/182517/ap-adds-new-social-media-guidelines-on-live-tweeting-friendingfollowing-sources/
- http://www.ap.org/Images/Social-Media-Guidelines-7-24-2012_tcm28-8378.pdf
- Live-tweeting at academic conferences: 10 rules of thumb
- https://markcarrigan.net/2015/04/24/how-to-live-tweet-effectively-at-academic-conferences/
- http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/11/30/live-tweeting-in-the-classroom-with-a-guest-speaker-tweeter/
Any examples reader could suggest of policies issued by conferences would be much appreciated!
Great hashtag visualisation by Sam Martin: http://www.academia.edu/5029537/Visualising_The_Challenge_of_Big_Data_bigdataBL
Really interesting analysis of an event hashtag by Matt Lingard: https://mattlingard.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/twitter-at-lse-teaching-day/ (quite old now, 2010, but the categories he uses are extremely helpful)
Mark Carrigan 