THE WORD “EDUCATION” IN SOCIAL MEDIA

Year 2016, Volume: 4 , 242 - 247, 01.09.2016

İlker Türker Serhat Orkun Tan

Abstract

The word
education, which can be expressed as a systematic way of giving the knowledge
and skills to the individuals, is mentioned frequently in social media. The
fastest-growing network twitter is also the optimal platform to get information
from the usage of the “education” word by social communities. From this point
of view, utilizing from twitter, this study aimed to investigate how the word
“education” is used in social media. The usage frequency of the word
“education”, the most frequently used terms together with the word “education”
and also the location information of education tweets were acquired to evaluate
the comments of the individuals on the word. 
The followings and followers numbers of the people who make education
sharing are also stated to see the popularity of these people in social media. 

Keywords

Education, social media, twitter, term frequency

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