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SUMMARY:Tweeting Teachers – Does Social Capital play a Role in Twitter C
 onversations among Teachers? - Dr Martin Rehm\, University Duisburg-Essen
DTSTART:20160222T120000Z
DTEND:20160222T133000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:_A SUPER Network/ELPEC Group lunchtime seminar._\n\nTeachers a
 re increasingly expected to engage into ongoing professional development\,
  in order to ensure the continued provision of high quality education. In 
 this context\, social networking sites (SNS) provide them with an environm
 ent\, where they can collaboratively acquire and share new information wit
 hin diverse groups of people. \n\nIn this context\, social capital theory 
 has been proposed as valuable perspective to analyse the exchange of infor
 mation within SNS. Yet\, past studies remain inconclusive about the role o
 f social capital. Furthermore\, little is known about whether and how teac
 hers use SNS to share and collect information. \nThe present study uses a 
 multi-method approach\, employing social and semantic networks analysis to
  assess the underlying structure of the conversation.\n\nThe study thereby
  contributes to the discussion about social capital within SNS and provide
 s tentative evidence on how differing “investment behaviour” among use
 rs can lead to different payoffs in terms of social capital within SNS.\n\
 n*Martin Rehm* is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Learning Lab (University Du
 isburg-Essen). He received his PhD from Maastricht University (The Netherl
 ands)\, where he investigated the impact of hierarchical positions on Comm
 unities of Learning. His current research focus is on informal learning wi
 th social media. In his work\, he departs from social capital theory and e
 mploys a multi-method approach\, using social and semantic network\, as we
 ll as bibliometric analyses.\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room GS4
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