E-Advocacy in the Information Market: How Social Media Platforms Distribute Evidence on Charter Schools. (April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Castillo, Elise; La Londe, Priya Goel; Owens, Stephen; Scott, Janelle; DeBray, Elizabeth; Lubienski, Christopher
• Other Names: Weiler Jessica guest-editor.; Lomotey Kofi guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Urban education. Volume 56:Number 4(2021)
• Page Start: 581
• Page End: 609
• Publication Date: 2021-04
• Subjects: evidence use -- intermediary organizations -- charter schools; Education, Urban -- Periodicals; Enseignement en milieu urbain -- Périodiques; Éducation; Milieu urbain; Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme); Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme); 370.91732
• DOI: 10.1177/0042085920953885
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0042-0859

Abstract

A growing body of research investigates how intermediary organizations (IOs) and their networks navigate, promote, and produce evidence on social media. To date, scholars have underexplored blogs, an important milieu in which IOs produce and disseminate information. In this analysis, we broaden the emerging scholarship on evidence brokering by examining how IOs and individual and independent bloggers broker knowledge via education policy blogs on charter schools and related education policy. Although blogging can potentially enhance knowledge production and dissemination, our findings demonstrate that bloggers often promote research evidence of uneven quality and scientific rigor.