Education research and the media : challenges and possibilities / Edited by Aspa Baroutsis, Stewart Riddle and Pat Thomson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mapping the field of education research and media / Aspa Baroutsis -- Part A: conducting education research with traditional and social media -- Headlines and hashtags herald new damaging effects in education policy? Media commentary on Australia's declining PISA performance / Aspa Baroutsis and Bob Lingard -- Televising the revolution? #revolutionschool and representations of education across traditional and social media / Nicole Mockler -- Re-mattering media affects: pedagogical interference into pre-emptive counter terrorism culture / Shiva Zarabadi and Jessica Ringrose -- Examining media discourses of diversity and indoctrination: public perceptions of the intended screening of gayby baby in schools / Michelle Jeffries -- Part B: communicating education research using traditional and social media -- Entering the political fray: the role of public education scholars in media debates / Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin and Cynthia Reyes -- Who speaks for teachers? Social media and voice / Pat Thomson and Stewart Riddle -- Muddling through with the media: lessons from the introduction of kiwi standards / Martin Thrupp -- Tweet the "phallic teacher": early career feminist education research, altmetrics and alternative peer review / Lucinda Mcknight and Linda Graham -- Scholarship of the cyborg: productivities and undercurrents / Deborah M. Netolicky and Naomi Barnes -- Concluding thoughts, provocations, and speculations on education research and media aspa baroutsis, Pat Thomson and Stewart Riddle.

"Universities around the world now actively encourage academics to engage in public scholarship, publishing in traditional and new media - newspapers, television, radio, blogs and social media. Education, Research and the Media addresses this situation, using empirical and reflexive accounts, to interrogate and advance the ways in which this shift is usually discussed. Drawing on Australian and international scholars and contexts, this edited collection probes the effects of these engagements. Taken together, the book offers new conceptualisations of the junctures and disjunctures of local, national and transnational mediascapes in education research, working across both traditional media and social media platforms. The book takes as its starting point that traditional national media, while still significant, is now embedded in practices and discourses that transcend geographic and spatial boundaries. Global media logics challenge the profitability and operations of media corporations, as the production of news and information is paradoxically both democratised and fragmented. There is a limited body of research about how this mediatised landscape impacts on public scholarship. This is the first book in the field of education to systematically investigate this landscape, using empirical examples and analysis, as well as a range of theoretical and conceptual approaches"-- Provided by publisher.