Peda(bot)bically Speaking: Teaching Computational and Data Journalism with Bots by Nicholas Diakopoulos.
From the post:
Bots can be useful little creatures for journalism. Not only because they help us automate tasks like alerting and filtering, but also because they encapsulate how data and computing can work together, in service of automated news. At the University of Maryland, where I’m a professor of journalism, my students are using the power of news bots to learn concepts and skills in computational journalism—including both editorial thinking and computational thinking.
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Hmmm, bot that filters all tweets that don’t contain a URL? (To filter cat pics and the like.) 😉
Or retweets tweets with #’s that trigger creation of topics/associations?
I don’t think there is a requirement that hashtags be meaningful to others. Yes?
Sounds like a great class!