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Tweeting Social Justice: How Social Work Faculty Use Twitter.

Social media are considered useful tools for academic purposes. Our exploratory study offers insight into the use of Twitter by social work faculty in the USA. Employing an online survey, this study investigates Twitter usage among a sample of social work faculty (n = 274) from the top-fifty-ranked...

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Published in:British Journal of Social Work Vol. 48; no. 7; pp. 2038 - 2058
Main Authors: Greeson, Johanna K P, An, Seongho, Xue, Jia, Thompson, Allison E, Guo, Chao
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Oct2018
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