Tweeting the Flood: Student Social Media Fieldwork and Interactive Community Building

Summary

This paper will discuss hands-on uses of social media to help students engage with climate change. A central case study is an interdisciplinary design course on the Mississippi River and the city, taught in spring 2011 by coauthor Patrick Nunnally in which students confronted historic floods on the Mississippi River in real time through a series of twitter assignments. The analysis will discuss how the assignments were set up and carried out, what happened, and what the outcomes were, in particular related to community building. The paper will address how such real-time observations can add up to data for long-term analysis. Tracked longitudinally, these data can be used to study climate change. The paper will also discuss other opportunities for use of social media and on-line resources for teaching and learning about issues of water, place, and community relevant to climate change.

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• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 20485