#tellPearson: The Activist 'Public Education' Network

Autor/in	Hogan, Anna
Titel	#tellPearson: The Activist 'Public Education' Network
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 39 (2018) 3, S.377-392 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hogan, Anna)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2016.1269225
Schlagwörter	Activism; Social Media; Public Education; Commercialization; Social Structure; Corporations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Soziale Medien; Öffentliche Erziehung; Sozialstruktur; Unternehmen
Abstract	This paper investigates the contemporary nature of education activism in the context of the Global Education Industry (GEI). Theorising around contentious politics, the activist teaching profession, and notions of 'connective' action, suggests that educational activists are now using social media to oppose the increasing commercialisation of education. This paper focuses on the '#tellPearson' campaign to explore how Twitter was leveraged as a social space to promote a campaign against the activities of Pearson plc. Analysis of this Twitter network shows how new social structures are being used to frame issues, mobilise resources and promote stakeholder action. While it is difficult to offer definitive conclusions about the success of this campaign, it is possible to reflect on the strategies now being used to hold those in positions of power and influence in the GEI to account. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01