An autoethnographic account of the use of Twitter for professional development by novice academic

Singh, Lenandlar

doi:10.21428/8c225f6e.7355472b

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“…And Musk's bad faith business decisions may be, reasonably, experienced as violence by those of us who have invested long-term time and energy in building that space through our participatory contributions. Len notes that he experiences online spaces in sharp contrast with his offline existence, and those online networks provided spaces for him to grow and flourish (Singh 2022). They are an integrated part of his existence.…”

Section: Digital Nomads Migrants [Something]mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Both Sarah and Bonnie used Twitter data for their PhD research (Honeychurch 2021;Stewart 2015). Len's current doctoral thesis examines how early career researchers utilize Twitter for their identity development and he has written about the use of Twitter in higher education (Singh 2020a(Singh , 2020b including his own experiences (Singh 2022). Others, too, have used Twitter to connect (cf.…”

Section: Digital Nomads Migrants [Something]mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lines of Flight: The Digital Fragmenting of Educational Networks

Koutropoulos,

Stewart,

Singh

et al. 2024

Journal of Interactive Media in Education

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With the precipitous changes of the platform formerly known as Twitter, brought on by the change of ownership in late 2022, many networked educators sought, and continue to seek, new digital spaces to continue fostering and developing their digital practice. The authors of this article had all been actively networked on Twitter, and wanted to explore these changes in their professional worlds. As we sought out these spaces we critically began to interrogate our own practices on this platform to gain a deeper understanding of our practice going forward. We've approached this exploration through three vectors: an examination of the terms we use to describe movement from platform to platform, digital identity formation and disruption, and building human connection in digital spaces. The findings from our exploration yielded the following conclusions: (1) With regard to metaphors of movement (i.e., "migration") we leave space open as to which metaphor to use as no metaphor is a perfect fit to explain the complexity of this phenomenon. (2) Digital identity/ies are multifaceted and sometimes place-specific, but some networked affordances seemed to encourage an ever-evolving digital identity more than other spaces. (3) Finally, digital spaces afford us the ability to carve out our own communities from the wider academic community, in the process developing a more owned and voiced identity. However as social media platforms are fleeting, those connections -and identitiesare in danger of getting co-opted or deleted as platforms rise and fall.

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Section: Digital Nomads Migrants [Something]mentioning

confidence: 99%