creator Wilhelm, Eva C. advisor Hemphill, Libby Twitter use has evolved from status updates to a broad range of uses from personal broadcasting to information sharing and conversations. A study was conducted to determine how Twitter is used for informal learning purposes. It was examined what kind of questions with a learning objective are asked, and under which circumstances these questions are answered. Questions were categorized according to question topic, type, structure and audience. According to the analysis, users most frequently asked for definitions and procedural information about technology, web, software and Twitter use. The questions with the highest answer rate were questions directed at individual users via @replies, and asked about definitions and other factual information. Submitted by Dana Lamparello (dlampare@iit.edu) on 2012-03-02T16:23:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 thesis_evawilhelm_may2011.pdf: 636516 bytes, checksum: 50f3be81acea1928dca5dacbfdd79288 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-02T16:23:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 thesis_evawilhelm_may2011.pdf: 636516 bytes, checksum: 50f3be81acea1928dca5dacbfdd79288 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05 M.S. in Technical Communication and Informational Design, May 2011 2011-04-25 2011-05 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2540 en Thesis born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access HUM / Humanities Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department