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Social media as a tool for generating sustained and in-depth insights into sport and exercise practitioners’ ongoing practices

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posted on 2017-08-24, 13:37 authored by Victoria A. Goodyear, Ashley CaseyAshley Casey, Mikael Quennerstedt
The purpose of this paper is to suggest and empirically illustrate how social media can be used to generate sustained and in-depth insights into sport and exercise practitioners’ ongoing practices. This is achieved by discussing the potential for social media in research designs and presenting an analysis of 6 physical education teachers’ and a researcher’s tweets during a six-year school-based continuous professional development programme. Through the use of empirical illustrations we suggest that social media promotes interflections i.e. an ongoing deliberation between practitioners and researchers facilitated by social media. The key contribution of this paper is the argument that social media offers researchers the opportunity to capture sustained and in-depth insights into practitioners and their practices and/or to examine longer-term impacts of programmes or interventions. The discussions are relevant to a range of practitioners within sport and exercise pedagogy, with teachers and teaching used as a representative example of this broad field.

History

School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

Citation

GOODYEAR, V.A., CASEY, A. and QUENNERSTEDT, M., 2018. Social media as a tool for generating sustained and in-depth insights into sport and exercise practitioners’ ongoing practices. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 10(1), pp. 1-16.

Publisher

© Taylor and Francis

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-08-11

Publication date

2018

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health on 23 Aug 2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2017.1367715

ISSN

2159-676X

eISSN

2159-6778

Language

  • en