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Tweeting Care

Educators' Dissent through Social Media in the US and Canada

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ID3983654
AuthorsRachel K Brickner (0000-0002-9996-5229, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume77
Issue1
Pages11-36
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLabour / Le Travail (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842
PublisherAthabasca University Press (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.1353/llt.2016.0022
OpenAlexW2346919636
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited4

In the neoliberal era , where teachers’ unions have suffered from a public backlash and legislative moves that have restricted collective bargaining rights and labour protections for educators, individual educators are becoming more politically active outside their unions. Some teachers are using a “narrative of care” when engaging in political dissent and resistance to articulate the caring components of their work and push back against a public dialogue that has focused on poorly performing schools and the financial burden of public education to taxpayers. This study explores two Twitter campaigns – #EvaluateThat in the US and #ThisIsMyStrikePay in British Columbia – to analyze how narratives of care are articulated and how these articulations act as a form of political dissent and resistance. I argue, building on the work of Donna Baines, Stephen Ackroyd, and Paul Thompson, that educators’ participation in these Twitter campaigns represents a form of grassroots dissent, which allows them to articulate their multiple identities – as educators, workers engaged in caring labour, and unionists. Moreover, this informal form of resistance can generate a stronger sense of solidarity rooted in these identities, which can intersect with and encourage participation in formal labour resistance and political activism. Abstract: Dans l’ere neoliberale , ou les syndicats des enseignants ont souffert d’une reaction du public et d’un changement legislatif qui ont limite les droits de negociation collective et les protections en matiere de travail pour les educateurs, les educateurs individuels sont de plus en plus actifs politiquement en dehors de leurs syndicats. Certains enseignants se servent des « sentiments altruistes » lors de l’engagement dans la dissidence politique et la resistance a articuler les composants de leur travail pour repousser un dialogue public qui a mis l’accent sur les ecoles peu performantes et la charge financiere de l’enseignement public pour les contribuables. Cette etude explore deux campagnes Twitter – #EvaluateThat aux Etats-Unis et #ThisIsMyStrikePay en Colombie-Britannique – pour analyser comment les sentiments altruistes sont exprimes et comment ces expressions agissent comme une forme de dissidence politique et de resistance. Je soutiens, appuyant sur les travaux de Donna Baines, Stephen Ackroyd, et Paul Thompson, que la participation des enseignants a ces campagnes Twitter represente une forme de contestation de la base, ce qui leur permet d’exprimer leurs identites multiples – comme les educateurs, les travailleurs engages dans un travail exigeant des sentiments altruistes et les syndicalistes. En outre, cette forme informelle de la resistance peut generer un sentiment plus fort de solidarite enracinee dans ces identites, qui peut croiser et encourager officiellement la participation de la resistance syndicale et l’activisme politique

Dissent · Media studies · Political science · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Service-Learning and Community Engagement · Social Media and Politics

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Citations per year1.56
Citation span2017 - 2026 (10)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
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