Abstract

OVALLE-PERANDONES, María-Antonia  and  NAVAS-MARTIN, Miguel-Ángel. Use of Twitter at 17th and 18th International Nursing Research Conferences. Enferm. glob. [online]. 2015, vol.14, n.40, pp.143-159. ISSN 1695-6141.

The aim of this paper is to propose a roadmap to analyze the use of the Twitter social network during the days when a conference is held. The main reason is the lack of practice to perform this task in the Spanish context, against the habit of doing at international conferences, with special emphasis in Health Sciences. With the Opileak technology, all messages were monitored on the social network Twitter during four days of the International Nursing Research Conferences, organized by Carlos III Healthcare Institute's, Nursing and Healthcare Research Unit (Investén-ISCIII). The process was made when the conferences were closed in the years 2013 and 2014, both had their own hashtags: #inves13 and # inves14. The results show that users tend to retweet more over time than original tweets; the main days of the conference have also the highest activity on the social network; users take different roles, being some good informers or well-informed users; the words used are a tribute to the cities where the conferences are held, the theme of the conferences and their international character. This type of analysis should perform by the organization of any meeting to discover the event impact on a communication channel 2.0.

Keywords : Twitter; Conferences; Social Networks; Nursing Research.

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