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The Value of Twitter in Building a Community of Students: Does This Go Toward or Against the Concept of ‘Human’ Students?

Langley, Katherine (2023) The Value of Twitter in Building a Community of Students: Does This Go Toward or Against the Concept of ‘Human’ Students? In: Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education. Routledge, Oxford, pp. 61-74. ISBN 978-1-032-01604-7

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Abstract

This chapter examines the effectiveness of social media (Twitter) as a meaningful platform to build a community of support for students. The chapter takes inspiration from the ALT Early Career Symposium, 2019, which brought together a group of academics with varying degrees of teaching and research experience from across the United Kingdom. Reflecting on the use of social media as a teaching tool, this chapter asks whether this has an impact on more traditional face-to face networking? Further, the chapter also examines the use of Twitter in supporting students during a course and in sustaining that support to ensure a long-term and tangible network. Within the chapter the author evaluates how Twitter assists in creating an academic ‘community’ in a world where communication is increasingly electronic, and where law schools are evolving to more distance learning models. The chapter considers how this impacts and ‘de-humanises’ the student experience: is it supplementary, or a new normal? In a culture of diverse methods of study, and varying barriers to learning, is social media is of value in this context?

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Depositing User: Kat Langley

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Item ID: 16009
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003179283
ISBN: 978-1-032-01604-7
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/16009
Official URL: https://www.routledge.com/Biopolitics-and-Resistan...

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ORCID for Katherine Langley: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2494-807X

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Date Deposited: 26 Jun 2023 15:11
Last Modified: 11 Jul 2023 08:00

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Author: Katherine Langley ORCID iD

University Divisions

Faculty of Business, Law and Tourism > School of Law

Subjects

Law > Law

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