The role of online crisis actors in teachers’ work and lives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12906187 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Heggart (0000-0003-2331-1234, University of Technology Sydney), Naomi Barnes (0000-0002-4049-1866, Queensland University of Technology), Steven J Kolber (0000-0001-5470-8432, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author), Thomas Mahoney (0009-0007-6482-5430, Deakin University), Cameron Malcher (The University of Sydney) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 295-313 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-8487 • E-ISSN: 1750-8495 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17508487.2024.2382134 |
| OpenAlex | W4401088631 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 47 |
It is not surprising that various sources have recently described the teaching profession in Australia as 'in crisis'. The consequences of pandemic policy have provided opportunities for groups to exploit the cascading crises facing teachers. We argue the online political ecosystem recognises teachers as a trope useful for retaining or gaining power. Astroturfing is the process by which political actors seek to present policy platforms emerging in an organic way from 'the people'. We detail how teachers were targeted as political leverage, within political frames that centred vaccinated teachers. We examine theTeachers' Professional Association of Australia (TPAA), an example of an astroturfed member group. Using a qualitative approach to digital sociology we analysed the strategies used by the TPAA to manufacture a crisis associated with teacher vaccinations and answer this research question: in what ways was digital astroturfing present in the TPAA campaign against mandatory vaccinations? We find sufficient evidence to indicate that astroturfing did occur, and was employed by the TPAA in an effort to weaken traditional union movements in Australia producing a form of union uberfication. Such a development poses an existential risk to existing teacher associations and trade unions and more broadly to the health of democracies
Existentialism · Leverage (statistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics · Law · Social Media and Politics · Social Work Education and Practice
Small Data, Thick Data
Digitally Enabled Social Change
Comparative Susceptibility and Differential Effects on the Two European Courts
The education influencer
Under pressure and overlooked
Responsive education in times of crisis
‘I cannot sustain the workload and the emotional toll’
The Politics of Crisis Management
Disaster Impacts on Students and Staff from a Specialist, Trauma-Informed Australian School
Centralising Qualitative Research in Big Data Methods Through Algorithmic Ethnography
Understanding the mediatisation of educational policy as practice
The transnationalisation of far right discourse on Twitter
The Net Delusion
When Covid-19, constitutional crisis, and political deadlock meet
There's no referee on social media”
Disaster didacticism
Astroturfing Infotopia
Legitimating a platform
Political Astroturfing on Twitter
Digital astroturfing in politics
Mobilizing policy
Teachers of TikTok
Using Social Media Data Aggregators to Do Social Research
What You Can Scrape and What Is Right to Scrape
Chasing shadows
Understanding Brexit on Facebook
Encountering #Feminism on Twitter
Danger, Crime and Rights
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |