Exploring Education Policy Through Newspapers and Social Media The Politics of Mediatisation

Exploring Education Policy Through Newspapers and Social Media offers an original, theorised, and empirically based account of contemporary (re)presentations, (re)articulations, and (re)imaginings of education policy through news and new media. In its thorough exploration of the uses and effects of newspapers and Twitter in education policy, the book provides a detailed, research-based account of media influences, and opens up multiple future research agendas in media sociology and policy sociology in education. The authors place an important, analytical focus on mediatisation and social mediatisation or deep mediatisation, and how both have effects and affects in education policy and politics. Their analyses situate these, sociologically, within changing societies, changing media, and changing education policy. The book also explores the effects of datafication and digitalisation of the social in all forms of media and their manifestations in morphing imbrications between the global, the national, and the local in education policies. This book will be of great interest to researchers, scholars, and higher degree research students in the domains of media sociology and policy sociology of education. It also will be of interest to policymakers and politicians in education, teacher unions, and education activists, journalists, and those concerned about the impacts of the decline in legacy media and the surveillance and commercialisation possibilities of new media.

1. Exploring education policy through newspapers and social media 2. Mapping news, new media, and education policy 3. Media logics, journalism, and reporting education 4. Mediatising school accountability 5. Framing news coverage of systemic performance through comparisons, criticisms, and concerns 6. Microblogging about PISA and speaking back to policy 7. Digital activism enabling policy activism 8. The politics of mediatisation and education policy: Overview, contribution, and futures. Appendix

Aspa Baroutsis is Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University, Australia. Bob Lingard is Professorial Fellow in the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, Australian Catholic University, and Emeritus Professor at The University of Queensland.