Awesome tweets we found for the article include: “my professor is republican and so is everyone in my class also the cute boy wasn't here today and neither is Amanda so I’m gonna kms,” and “my professor is a butthurt republican.”
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Replying to @GidMK
No! The really bizarre thing is that Australian students barely tweet about their lecturers, a fraction as much as the students in the US
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Replying to @willozap
That is really weird! Maybe it's something to do with the culture? Or possibly just an internet access issue - do US unis have better wifi or something?
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Replying to @GidMK
I very much assume it’s cultural, but we can’t tell if it’s better behaved lecturers, Australian students reluctant to talk about them, or Australian students not considering Twitter back-stage
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Replying to @willozap
Sounds like it'd be a combination of the 3. I'd say perhaps also that due to HECS there's less of a perception that bad lecturers are costing students money, whereas in the US that is a very real concern
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Replying to @willozap
Do you think it might also be due to a more basic difference in the way people use twitter between the two countries? Complaints vs something else?
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Replying to @GidMK
We’re looking into that now. There are clear cultural differences in use between different countries, we were just shocked how stark this was between too otherwise similar countries
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I can't wait to see the paper!
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