With the relatively sudden arrival of the pandemic in the spring of 2020 a brand new term sprang up: 'remote learning'. In a certain respect, the new term precipitated a rush for influence and status in social media circles (the closest comparison I would draw was the way influencers flooded Google+ when it was first launched). This article looks at the use of the term 'remote learning' as a hashtag on Twitter. "We identified four overlapping themes..." write the authors, "professional knowledge sharing, social sharing, self-promotion, and information broadcasting." On the one hand, they note, " hashtags offered affordances as ad hoc spaces where educators engaged in just-in-time knowledge and social sharing." But on the other, "the sheer quantity of self-promotion in the #remoteteaching and #remotelearning spaces may also have been overwhelming or distracting for some users."
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