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Table 1 Overview of relevant studies on online teacher communities on SNSs

From: Examining a technology-focused language teacher community on Facebook during a crisis situation

Study

Online platform

Main methods

Bissessar (2014)

Facebook

Interviews with group administrators (n = 4) and group members (n = 22)

Britt and Paulus (2016)

Twitter

Observations of education related tweets

Interviews

Archival documents

Carpenter et al. (2020)

Instagram

Questionnaire (n = 841)

Carpenter and Krutka (2015)

Twitter

Questionnaire (n = 494)

Curwood and Scott 2017

Twitter

Questionnaire (n = 64)

Semi-structured interviews (n = 8)

Observation of education related tweets (n = 530)

Goodyear et al. (2019)

Twitter

Observation of PE related tweets (n = 901) among 100 participants

In-depth semi-structured interviews (n = 18)

Patahuddin and Logan (2018)

Facebook

Observation of Facebook responses to four posts about mathematics examples (n = 117)

Nilimarkka et al. (2021)

Facebook

Analysis of posts, comments, and reactions of a Facebook group (eight years) using API

Participant observation

Rutherford (2010)

Facebook

Analysis of 187 discussion posts of a Facebook group

Schroeder et al. (2019)

Pinterest

Questionnaire (n = 117)

Wesely (2013)

Twitter

Participant observation of interactions among language teachers using specific hashtags

Interviews (n = 9)

Staudt Willet and Carpenter (2020)

Reddit

Analysis of four different teaching-related subreddits (114,524 posts and 23,777 responses) for 12 months using API

Yildirim (2019)

Facebook

Observation of posts shared in a Facebook group for mathematics teachers (n = 2442)

Interviews (n = 14)