Teachers, Twitter, and Terrorism: Combining Digital Research Methods to Study Online Educational Conversations in France

• In Event: RTD - Research Methods, Social Media, and Education [TC]

Short Description

Digital methods allow educational researchers to study important phenomena, such as French teachers’ use of Twitter to coordinate their teaching in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks of November 2015. In this presentation, we report on how combinations of these methods can be used to draw conclusions not readily apparent from the initial data. We use our study of the #educattentats hashtag to provide examples of these conclusions.

Authors

• Spencer P. Greenhalgh, Michigan State University

• Matthew J. Koehler, Michigan State University