id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_wh3b7ci2frbblf5hcbiitrqbwm C. Ross Enabled backchannel: conference Twitter use by digital humanists 2011 34 .pdf application/pdf 12059 1415 54 Enabled Backchannel: Conference Twitter Use by Digital Humanists This paper considers the use of Twitter as a digital backchannel by the Digital Humanities community, Keywords: Microblogging, Twitter, digital humanities, digital backchannels, conferences, user different types of user intentions in a Twitter enabled conference backchannel. the Digital Humanities community use of Twitter have been undertaken (Fluharty 2010, French 2010) Humanities conference data set were identified and then sent an online survey (16 Twitter users were Fig 1: The use of Twitter in a conference setting, indicating the number of Tweets which included conference community by the high proportion of Tweets addressing other Twitter users. Fig 2: Density of Tweets produced by Twitter users in the Digital Humanities Conferences corpus, Digital Humanities conference Twitter enabled backchannel is encouraging a more participatory resemblance with the Digital Humanities conference twitter communications, helping users function community of practice, and how academics use Twitter in a conference based setting. ./cache/work_wh3b7ci2frbblf5hcbiitrqbwm.pdf ./txt/work_wh3b7ci2frbblf5hcbiitrqbwm.txt