Spencer P Greenhalgh
Biographic Data
| ID | 322823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Spencer P Greenhalgh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Spencer P |
| FAMILY NAME | Greenhalgh |
| SIGNATURE | GREENHALGH S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8894-3198 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Jacob's Temple Sermon as Reinterpretation of Scripture and Rethinking of Sexual Ethics
Someone turning to the Book of Mormon to defend their church's traditional teachings on sexuality would likely consult the sermon given by the Nephite prophet Jacob in the second chapter of his eponymous book. Indeed, LDS and RLDS figures have often referred to Jacob 2 when making arguments about sexual ethics.1 For example, LDS apostle Mark E. Petersen quoted from this chapter in a 1969 address condemning the sexual revolution of that decade.2 L…
Information flow solipsism in canvas: An exploration of student privacy awareness
The dark side of affinity spaces for teacher professional learning
The affinity space framework has proven useful for explaining and understanding teacher activity on social media platforms. In this study, we explore the ‘dark side’ of teacher affinity spaces by documenting a partisan teachers' group on an alternative social media platform. We used a mix of a priori and emergent coding to analyse screenshots of posts and comments from a public teachers' group and group administrators' activity on the broader pla…
Free Speech or Free to Hate: Anti-LGBTQ+ Discourses in LGBTQ+-Affirming Spaces on Gab Social
This article presents a critical discourse analysis of groups on the free speech social media platform Gab that were intended to be LGBTQ+-friendly but became spaces of queerphobia. Results indicate that Gab users deployed discourses of difference to situate the platform as heteronormative and to denigrate the LGBTQ+ community. In particular, discourses utilized in the name of free speech were used to establish LGBTQ+ individuals as abominations,…
“You can tell a lot about a person by reading their bio”: Lessons from inauthentic Twitter accounts’ activity in #Edchat
There is an abundance of scholarship documenting educators’ uses of for-profit social media platforms for professional learning, but little is known about how inauthentic accounts affect those experiences. We studied 83 state-sponsored accounts’ interactions with the teacher-focused #Edchat hashtag by analyzing their profiles, profiles of accounts they retweeted, and tweets they shared. We found no patterns of overt state interference in #Edchat;…
The Correct [Domain] Name of the Church: Technology, Naming, and Legitimacy in the Latter-day Saint Tradition
Of all the changes made in response to the 2018 decision to emphasize the full name of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, those made to the official Latter-day Saint web and digital presence stand out in particular. If the depth of the Latter-day Saint leadership's commitment to this emphasis is evident in changes to names of well-known institutions such as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (now The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square), the…
Lifting the veil on TeachersPayTeachers.com: An investigation of educational marketplace offerings and downloads
TeachersPayTeachers.com (TpT) has emerged as an alternative to traditional curricular publishing houses; however, the critical investigation into this for-profit platform is limited. The aggregate content offered and downloaded from the platform through 2019 was Web-scraped, enabling us to construct a content model of TpT and provide descriptive results regarding the interactions between content, technology, and users/usage on TpT. We find TpT’s …
Pseudonymous academics: Authentic tales from the Twitter trenches
Gayservatives on Gab: LGBTQ+ Communities and Far Right Social Media
In the United States, LGBTQ+ individuals are often imagined as inherently politically progressive, but this assumption overlooks the experiences of self-identified LGBTQ+ conservatives. Likewise, although social media platforms are recognized as spaces of identity and community production for LGBTQ+ people generally, less work has considered how they provide a similar forum for 'gayservatives.' In response, this article engages in a critical disc…
Academic, social, and cultural learning in the French #bac2018 Twitter hashtag
The influence of policy and context on teachers’ social media use
Research on teachers’ use of social media has typically assumed that it is a) driven by a need for professional learning and b) best understood in terms of individual motivations. In this study, we use a dataset of nearly 600,000 tweets posted to one or more of 48 Regional Educational Twitter Hashtags associated with 44 U.S. states. To explore the influence of local contextual factors on hashtag‐ and account‐level activity in these hashtags, we u…
How Students and Principals Understand ClassDojo: Emerging Insights
Identifying multiple learning spaces within a single teacher-focused Twitter hashtag
Spam and Educators’ Twitter Use: Methodological Challenges and Considerations
Tweet, and We Shall Find: Using Digital Methods to Locate Participants in Educational Hashtags
Days Later: Twitter Hashtags as “Just in Time” Teacher Professional Development
Days Later: Twitter Hashtags as “Just in Time” Teacher Professional Development
Free Speech or Free to Hate: Anti-LGBTQ+ Discourses in LGBTQ+-Affirming Spaces on Gab Social
This article presents a critical discourse analysis of groups on the free speech social media platform Gab that were intended to be LGBTQ+-friendly but became spaces of queerphobia. Results indicate that Gab users deployed discourses of difference to situate the platform as heteronormative and to denigrate the LGBTQ+ community. In particular, discourses utilized in the name of free speech were used to establish LGBTQ+ individuals as abominations,…
Gayservatives on Gab: LGBTQ+ Communities and Far Right Social Media
In the United States, LGBTQ+ individuals are often imagined as inherently politically progressive, but this assumption overlooks the experiences of self-identified LGBTQ+ conservatives. Likewise, although social media platforms are recognized as spaces of identity and community production for LGBTQ+ people generally, less work has considered how they provide a similar forum for 'gayservatives.' In response, this article engages in a critical disc…
Tweet, and We Shall Find: Using Digital Methods to Locate Participants in Educational Hashtags
How Students and Principals Understand ClassDojo: Emerging Insights
Spam and Educators’ Twitter Use: Methodological Challenges and Considerations
Days Later: Twitter Hashtags as “Just in Time” Teacher Professional Development
Tweet, and We Shall Find: Using Digital Methods to Locate Participants in Educational Hashtags
Spam and Educators’ Twitter Use: Methodological Challenges and Considerations
Identifying multiple learning spaces within a single teacher-focused Twitter hashtag
Academic, social, and cultural learning in the French #bac2018 Twitter hashtag
The influence of policy and context on teachers’ social media use
Research on teachers’ use of social media has typically assumed that it is a) driven by a need for professional learning and b) best understood in terms of individual motivations. In this study, we use a dataset of nearly 600,000 tweets posted to one or more of 48 Regional Educational Twitter Hashtags associated with 44 U.S. states. To explore the influence of local contextual factors on hashtag‐ and account‐level activity in these hashtags, we u…
How Students and Principals Understand ClassDojo: Emerging Insights
Lifting the veil on TeachersPayTeachers.com: An investigation of educational marketplace offerings and downloads
TeachersPayTeachers.com (TpT) has emerged as an alternative to traditional curricular publishing houses; however, the critical investigation into this for-profit platform is limited. The aggregate content offered and downloaded from the platform through 2019 was Web-scraped, enabling us to construct a content model of TpT and provide descriptive results regarding the interactions between content, technology, and users/usage on TpT. We find TpT’s …
Pseudonymous academics: Authentic tales from the Twitter trenches
Gayservatives on Gab: LGBTQ+ Communities and Far Right Social Media
In the United States, LGBTQ+ individuals are often imagined as inherently politically progressive, but this assumption overlooks the experiences of self-identified LGBTQ+ conservatives. Likewise, although social media platforms are recognized as spaces of identity and community production for LGBTQ+ people generally, less work has considered how they provide a similar forum for 'gayservatives.' In response, this article engages in a critical disc…
“You can tell a lot about a person by reading their bio”: Lessons from inauthentic Twitter accounts’ activity in #Edchat
There is an abundance of scholarship documenting educators’ uses of for-profit social media platforms for professional learning, but little is known about how inauthentic accounts affect those experiences. We studied 83 state-sponsored accounts’ interactions with the teacher-focused #Edchat hashtag by analyzing their profiles, profiles of accounts they retweeted, and tweets they shared. We found no patterns of overt state interference in #Edchat;…
The Correct [Domain] Name of the Church: Technology, Naming, and Legitimacy in the Latter-day Saint Tradition
Of all the changes made in response to the 2018 decision to emphasize the full name of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, those made to the official Latter-day Saint web and digital presence stand out in particular. If the depth of the Latter-day Saint leadership's commitment to this emphasis is evident in changes to names of well-known institutions such as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (now The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square), the…
Free Speech or Free to Hate: Anti-LGBTQ+ Discourses in LGBTQ+-Affirming Spaces on Gab Social
This article presents a critical discourse analysis of groups on the free speech social media platform Gab that were intended to be LGBTQ+-friendly but became spaces of queerphobia. Results indicate that Gab users deployed discourses of difference to situate the platform as heteronormative and to denigrate the LGBTQ+ community. In particular, discourses utilized in the name of free speech were used to establish LGBTQ+ individuals as abominations,…
Information flow solipsism in canvas: An exploration of student privacy awareness
The dark side of affinity spaces for teacher professional learning
The affinity space framework has proven useful for explaining and understanding teacher activity on social media platforms. In this study, we explore the ‘dark side’ of teacher affinity spaces by documenting a partisan teachers' group on an alternative social media platform. We used a mix of a priori and emergent coding to analyse screenshots of posts and comments from a public teachers' group and group administrators' activity on the broader pla…
Jacob's Temple Sermon as Reinterpretation of Scripture and Rethinking of Sexual Ethics
Someone turning to the Book of Mormon to defend their church's traditional teachings on sexuality would likely consult the sermon given by the Nephite prophet Jacob in the second chapter of his eponymous book. Indeed, LDS and RLDS figures have often referred to Jacob 2 when making arguments about sexual ethics.1 For example, LDS apostle Mark E. Petersen quoted from this chapter in a 1969 address condemning the sexual revolution of that decade.2 L…
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