Jeffrey Carpenter, associate professor of education and director of the Teaching Fellows program, published the article in the peer-reviewed journal TechTrends.
Jeffrey Carpenter, associate professor of education and director of the Teaching Fellows, has co-authored an article in the journal TechTrends along with K. Bret Staudt Willet and Matthew J. Koehler of Michigan State University, and Spencer P. Greenhalgh of the University of Kentucky.
The article, titled “Spam & Educators’ Twitter Use: Methodological Challenges and Considerations” is available online here. The abstract reads as follows:
Twitter and other social media have assumed important places in many educators’ professional lives by hosting spaces where new kinds of collegial interactions can occur. However, such spaces can also attract unwelcome Twitter traffic that complicates researchers’ attempts to explore and understand educators’ professional social media experiences.
In this article, we define various kinds of spam that we have identified in our research on educators’ uses of Twitter. After providing an overview of the concept of spam, we evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to addressing the presence of spam in educator-focused Twitter spaces. Then we suggest practical, holistic metrics that can be employed to help identify spam. Through secondary analyses of our past research, we describe the use of such metrics to identify and deal with spam in three specific cases.
Finally, we discuss implications of spam and these suggested methods for teacher educators, instructional designers and educational technology researchers.
The article reference is: Carpenter, J.P., Staudt Willet, K. B., Koehler, M. J., & Greenhalgh, S. P. (2019). Spam and Educators’ Twitter Use: Methodological Challenges and Considerations. TechTrends. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-019-00466-3