Love your thread! Your question about how researchers' use of social media affects their research methods is a good one! ...
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Public academics open up their public posts to be followed etc. As for Twitter; one author last posted in 2016, & posts lack engagement...
Twitter being public represents data!...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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