Visibility strategies and teacher actions on Twitter

Authors

  • Camila Lima Santana e Santana Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Baiano - IF-Baiano
  • Edvaldo Souza Couto Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644422553

Keywords:

Educational technology, Social networks, Twitter, Visibility, Teacher action.

Abstract

This paper is result of a search that aimed to analyze the visibility strategies and teacher actions used by Brazilian teachers on Twitter. The article is a qualitative study, ethnographic, made through covert observation and tweet analysis of a teachers group that have active account on Twitter. The main argument is that the visibility on Twitter is a social capital wrought by means of strategies that the individuals established on Social Networks Sites. This capital is singular, seeing that being active on the network, giving opinions, doing some considerations, sharing, constitutes educational action and results in social and economic valorization. The study concludes that the mediated visibility on Twitter is a way to achieves the social valorization on teachers dimension, inasmuch as to achieve visibility is to accumulate some kind of social capital, being, therefore, a professional strategy.

Author Biographies

Camila Lima Santana e Santana, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Baiano - IF-Baiano

Doutora em Educação - UFBA

Professora no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Baiano - IF-Baiano

Pró-Reitora de Ensino

Edvaldo Souza Couto, Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA

Pós-Doutorado em Educação - UFRGS

Doutorado em Educação - UNICAMP

Professor na Graduação e Pós-Graduação em Educação na Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA

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Published

2017-08-31

How to Cite

Santana, C. L. S. e, & Couto, E. S. (2017). Visibility strategies and teacher actions on Twitter. Education, 42(2), 435–450. https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644422553

Issue

Educação, v. 42, n. 2, maio/ago. 2017

Section

Continuous Demand

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