Outreach or Inreach? Understanding the Dissemination of Research Communication Through Twitter's Public Square

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session Six
  In Roundtable Session: Research Use in Multifaceted Contexts (Table 6)

Abstract

The last major consensus report on the direction of education research produced on behalf of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), Scientific Research in Education, was published in 2002. Now, 20 years later, the NASEM has produced a widely anticipated follow-up to that foundational work. One key difference between the release of the 2022 NASEM report and that of its predecessor is the role that social media platforms like Twitter play in communication surrounding research and policy. This study capitalizes on the unique opportunity provided by the release of the NASEM report to examine how research and related forms of information proliferate across Twitter, and the nature of the discourse surrounding them.

Authors

• Christopher Harrison, Florida Southern College
  Presenting Author

• Chris Curran, University of Florida
  Non-Presenting Author

• Lora A. Cohen-Vogel, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
  Non-Presenting Author