Monitoring Freshman College Experience Through Content Analysis of Tweets: Observational Study.
Sam LiuMiaoqi ZhuSean D YoungPublished in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2018)
The results suggest that the number of tweets related to academic studies and social life fluctuates to reflect real-time events. Student's ethnicity influenced the proportion of academic-related tweets posted. The findings from this study provide valuable information on the types of information that could be extracted from social media data. This information can be valuable for school administrators and researchers to improve students' university experience.