The Twitter in the federal university libraries of Southern Brazil: a cybermetric study

Authors

  • Eduardo Silveira Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Ciência da Informação, Programa de Pós-Graduação, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6491-6670
  • Raffaela Dayane Afonso Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Ciência da Informação, Programa de Pós-Graduação, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil
  • Marcio Matias Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Ciência da Informação, Programa de Pós-Graduação, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4728-3592

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/rici.v12.n1.2019.11153

Keywords:

Academic libraries. Cybermetrics. Twitter.

Abstract

The article intends to investigate how it behave profiles of Twitter accounts of the federal university libraries of southern Brazil, with the contribution of one of the subfields of metric information studies. However, as theoretical foundation had agenda the cyberspace, social networks, Twitter and cybermetrics. The methodology is descriptive and approach to character on quantitative method. Were identified ten federal university libraries with the profile on the social network Twitter. Since then, the profiles were analyzed as time of creation, luminosity, visibility, impact factor and the availability of information. With some results were found that most of the profiles has round to seven years of existence. As for the impact factor the highest incidence of the profiles has a low impact factor. The profile of the UFSC is the profile that is most prominence in the research, besides it is what else provides information to their followers. It found that cybermetrics helps to measure, verify and estimate the information within cyberspace and social networks.

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Author Biographies

Eduardo Silveira, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Ciência da Informação, Programa de Pós-Graduação, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil

Doutorando em Ciência da Informação pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (PGCIN-UFSC).

Raffaela Dayane Afonso, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Ciência da Informação, Programa de Pós-Graduação, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil

Doutoranda em Ciência da Informação pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (PGCIN-UFSC).

Marcio Matias, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Ciência da Informação, Programa de Pós-Graduação, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil

Docente no Programa de Pós-Graduação da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (PGCIN-UFSC).

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Published

2018-08-04

How to Cite

Silveira, E., Afonso, R. D., & Matias, M. (2018). The Twitter in the federal university libraries of Southern Brazil: a cybermetric study. Revista Ibero-Americana De Ciência Da Informação, 12(1), 4–21. https://doi.org/10.26512/rici.v12.n1.2019.11153

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2019): Revista Ibero-americana de Ciência da Informação

Section

Artigos

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