{"id":9106,"date":"2019-02-25T18:40:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T18:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=9106"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:52:08","slug":"twitter-cpd-actor-network-theory-and-flanerie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/twitter-cpd-actor-network-theory-and-flanerie\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter, cpd, actor-network theory and fl\u00e2nerie"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cBEST. PD. EVER!\u201d Some teachers make bold claims for the way that Twitter supports their professional development, yet research into this area is rather limited. This study sought to gain a better understanding of the practices involved and the part that Twitter plays. It uses a sociomaterial sensibility informed by actor-network theory (ANT) to unravel the complex webs of relations which form, break apart and reform when knowledge practices are enacted in the mediated arena of Twitter.<br \/>\nTo explore this rich but messy environment, I evoke the spirit of the Parisian fl\u00e2neur to develop an ethnographic approach I refer to as \u2018fl\u00e2nography.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from: <a href=\"http:\/\/shura.shu.ac.uk\/24081\/\">Exploring teachers\u2019 professional development with Twitter: A sociomaterial analysis &#8211; Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ian Guest&#8217;s phd should make for fascinating reading. I&#8217;ve followed along on <a href=\"https:\/\/cpdin140.wordpress.com\">his blog<\/a> as best I could. The idea of twitter as CPD is a popular one that needs the sort of examination that Ian carried out.<\/p>\n<p>We have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutalk.info\/show\/radio-edutalk-30-11-2016-ian-guest-twitter-cpd\/\">interviewed Ian on Radio Edutalk about his phd back in 2016<\/a> and I am looking forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutalk.info\/?post_type=show&#038;p=175604062\">talking to him again soon<\/a>. He also published audio of some of his research interviews on Edutalk: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutalk.info\/category\/cpdin140\/\">CPDin140<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBEST. PD. EVER!\u201d Some teachers make bold claims for the way that Twitter supports their professional development, yet research into this area is rather limited. This study sought to gain a better understanding of the practices involved and the part that Twitter plays. 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