1. A critical examination of <italic>Teach for Bangladesh’s</italic> Facebook page: ‘Social-mediatisation’ of global education reforms in the ‘post-truth’ era.
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Adhikary, Rino Wiseman, Lingard, Bob, and Hardy, Ian
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EDUCATIONAL change , *SOCIAL media , *EDUCATIONAL technology , *NEOLIBERALISM , *YOUNG adults , *HIGHER education - Abstract
In this paper, we examine how
Teach for Bangladesh (TfB ) has utilised Facebook since 2012 in its effort to extend its policy influence and message to young Bangladeshi graduates and local population. We reveal this as an example of how Facebook has become a powerful new platform forpolicy mediatisation . This is also a developing world-example of a [global] policy rewritten [locally] as audio-video bytes. Our analyses reveal three ways in whichTfB sought to influence these graduates, but also the local government and public, via Facebook. First, it created opportunities for recurrent reading, hearing and seeing the policy in practice as animated by ‘stars’, ‘spectacles’, ‘glamour’ and ‘statistics’, all of which regularise a sense of heroic bodily feeling-as-vernacularisation . Secondly, it sought to inform and reshape thesocial imaginary and associated problem imagination of the graduates and locals to whom this message was directed. And thirdly, it involved what might be described as a ‘post-truth’ way of engagement via the excessive use of emotional stimulus, manifesting an understanding of the affective aspect of policy. We have used a combination ofsocial network analysis ,content analysis andvideological analysis in establishing our argument. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2018
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