These are the academics that typically do social media research: those who don't maximise the potential by nurturing their own networks.
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Exactly. Would they make the same recommendations to offline networks? "Stop being friends with your IRL friends." No. Ludicrous suggestion.
ALL research on social connectedness shows how social isolation impacts health & wellbeing. Yet online ties in SM studies seen as negative.
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When the starting bias is "physical in-person interaction is the best kind of contact", anything deviating from that must be "bad".
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Yes! Reinforcement of race/gender/sexuality/class/disability: what researchers understand to be superior communication maintains status quo.
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