{"152321":{"#nid":"152321","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Twitter Account Shares Student Perspectives","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has created an additional Twitter account designed primarily for students. @GTStudents is billed as the \u201cvoice of the students\u201d and encourages them to share their day-to-day Tech experiences with one another.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EReaction has been positive since the account was launched on August 17. The new concept is maintained and monitored by Institute Communications student assistant Vett Vandiver, \u0026nbsp;a fourth-year Science, Technology and Culture undergrad. She not only retweets posts that relate to campus life, but also responds and provides tips as students return for the fall semester. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile Vandiver is currently the only student monitoring the account, @GTStudents will eventually be managed by other students. A different person will oversee the account for a specified period of time, tweeting about classes, campus life and anything else his or her peers may find interesting. The new social media tool adds a creative perspective to Tech\u2019s social media presence, providing additional student insight that the primary Georgia Tech Twitter feed cannot always provide.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is an innovative way to get more students involved in campus life as an opt-in, as opposed to the usual mass emails,\u201d said Eran Mordel, undergraduate student government president.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has created an additional Twitter account designed primarily for students. @GTStudents is billed as the \u201cvoice of the students\u201d and encourages them to share their day-to-day Tech experiences with one another.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"@GTStudents is billed as the \u201cvoice of the students\u201d and encourages them to share their day-to-day Tech experiences with one another."}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2012-09-06 15:48:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:47","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-09-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-09-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166847","name":"students"},{"id":"314","name":"twitter"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003EMedia Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-2966\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["maderer@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}