Tweetology of Learning Analytics: What does Twitter tell us about the trends and development of the field?

Twitter is a very popular microblogging platform that has been actively used by scientific communities to exchange scientific information and to promote scholarly discussions. The present study aimed to leverage the tweet data to provide valuable insights into the development of the learning analytics field since its initial days. Descriptive...

Unravelling Twitter chaos during a policy crisis: Applying Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modelling to Tweets about the Dutch Nitrogen Crisis

In May 2019, the Dutch Council of State rejected the national approach for reducing nitrogen emissions in Dutch nature. Farmers were targeted by the policy change: all licenses for agricultural expansion were revoked, affecting the financial livelihoods of farmers. Farmers did not take this well and, using social media platforms, started...