Digital Education Manchester

The articles in this special collection edited by Katy Jordan (Lancaster) and Mark Carrigan are a response to a recent call for papers which turned the famous Twitter interface prompt – ‘What’s happening?’ – on to the broader field of social media. The rapid changes of leadership and policy at Twitter in the process of its rebranding and re-emergence as X have precipitated migration and uncertainty, and highlighted the precarity of relying on corporate infrastructure to support public scholarship. In this special collection, a series of papers examine different aspects of current social media practices in higher education, from its relationship to academic identity, to research and teaching.