It continues to be a great support now. Being agoraphobic I have minimal "real world" contact now. "Get off soc med" doesn't work for me.
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Your points here are perfect: researchers approach social media with biases. The two authors of this study do not have open FB accounts...
Twitter being public represents data!Public academics open up their public posts to be followed etc. As for Twitter; one author last posted in 2016, & posts lack engagement...
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...Other author is well known & has large following, but most tweets are not engaged. Rarely writes to followers; almost exclusively WP.
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As you noted, social media offers deep & vital social connections to ppl physically or socially isolated. I'd add also enriches lives of URM
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It *does* matter that the biggest names in social media research are White, able bodied and don't use social media the way others do.
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Social media amplifies and reinforces what people expect and do offline. It is bizarre to still see these articles saying "get offline."
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People seem to put moral judgements on certain forms of communication. TV still gets a rough ride but the telephone was largely embraced.
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The same hyperbolic arguments about how social media will be the end of "civilisation" were made about printing press/ TV/ internet
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The moral furore over certain types of music. But usually only after it's been co-opted by white youth.
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