Abstract

SANTANA, Camila Lima Santana e  and  COUTO, Edvaldo Souza. Visibility strategies and teacher actions on Twitter. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2017, vol.42, n.2, pp.435-450. ISSN 1984-6444.  https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644422553.

This paper is result of a search that aimed to analyze the visibility strategies and teacher actions used by Brazilian teachers on Twitter. The article is a qualitative study, ethnographic, made through covert observation and tweet analysis of a teachers group that have active account on Twitter. The main argument is that the visibility on Twitter is a social capital wrought by means of strategies that the individuals established on Social Networks Sites. This capital is singular, seeing that being active on the network, giving opinions, doing some considerations, sharing, constitutes educational action and results in social and economic valorization. The study concludes that the mediated visibility on Twitter is a way to achieves the social valorization on teachers dimension, inasmuch as to achieve visibility is to accumulate some kind of social capital, being, therefore, a professional strategy.

Keywords : Educational Technology; Social Networks; Twitter; Visibility; Teacher Action.

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