The Hashtag #CharlasEducativas as a Teacher Affinity Space on Twitter

  1. Ingrid Mosquera-Gende 1
  2. Paula Marcelo-Martínez 2
  3. Ana Yara Postigo-Fuentes 3
  4. Manuel Fernández-Navas 4
  1. 1 Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
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    Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/029gnnp81

  2. 2 Universidad de Sevilla
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    Universidad de Sevilla

    Sevilla, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03yxnpp24

  3. 3 Universidad de Düsseldorf
  4. 4 Universidad de Málaga
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    Universidad de Málaga

    Málaga, España

    ROR https://ror.org/036b2ww28

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Revue:
Comunicar: Revista Científica de Comunicación y Educación

ISSN: 1134-3478

Année de publication: 2024

Titre de la publication: Empowered and hyper(dis)connected audiences: Actors, contexts, experiences and educommunicative practices

Número: 78

Pages: 222-233

Type: Article

DOI: 10.58262/V32I78.18 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

D'autres publications dans: Comunicar: Revista Científica de Comunicación y Educación

Résumé

Twitter has positioned itself as one of the social networks most used by teachers, generating teacher affinity spaces for them to share and collaborate. This study analyses the hashtag #CharlasEducativas, to explore whether it represents a teaching affinity space on this social network. It is a hashtag linked to an educational project created in Spain and related to all educational stages in a cross-cutting manner. Using a mixed methods research, 6073 tweets with the hashtag #CharlasEducativas, published between January 2020 and July 2022, were analysed, including a total of 761 Twitter profiles. Using the software MAXQDA, a category system was developed to classify the most frequent topics in the interactions and to study the tone of the discourse. The social network analysis software Graphext was used for in depth analysis of the profiles with the highest participation. It was confirmed that the characteristics of affinity spaces (collaboration, horizontal nature, creation of community, existence of hierarchy and source of informal learning) were met. The interactions linked to this hashtag are positive, friendly and with a close and relaxed tone, which favours the generation of a group feeling, facilitating informal learning. In addition, the space has a strong hierarchy with leadership roles that allows the information to f low and be fed continuously.

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