Education Scholars on Twitter

• In Event: FR - Social Media

Short Description

It is often argued that social media can foster the development of more equitable scholarly and educational processes. We used data mining methods to evaluate this claim. We captured more than 645,000 tweets posted by 232 students and 237 professors of education. We report participation patterns and factors that predict Twitter follower counts. Results (a) reveal significant variation in how individuals participate on Twitter and (b) question purported egalitarian structures of social media use.

Authors

• George Veletsianos, Royal Roads University

• Royce Kimmons, Brigham Young University