PRT: seriously, with a few notable and valuable exceptions, where are the senior scholars. how many juniors need to stick their necks out, make themselves unlikeable online (because "the tone", right?), become known as troublemakers.
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and I know it's partly a generational thing about who is at which medium, but is much more action is being taken by senior scholars outside twitter? and how many eyebrows are raised when social media activism, or even presence, is mentioned?
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Replying to @SLevelt
Um, yeah, some of us are taking action outside of social media, and sometimes that action is difficult and can't be discussed in public for legal (and personal safety) reasons. In other cases it's significant but slow and needs co-signatories.
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Really sick of the assumption that if something isn't on Twitter or Facebook, it doesn't exist. Also happen to think that a lot of social media "support" is strategic posturing -- I def. know that some of it is. Don't know how this became the measuring stick of righteousness.
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Still always confused about facebook - why are important academic conversations happening on a corporate, for-profit site that wants nothing but our personal information?
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Replying to @MDockrayMiller @irinibus and
Elo ended up being white social media zone. No one is in Mastodon and it's development and growth get stymied b/c of crowd sourced development. As for the for profit issue, well, everything we are on is for profit including your university email. Go Google for Education.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @MDockrayMiller and
So unless you plan to unplug from everything that you are required to use for your job, you are pretty much handing over private info. to a for-profit corporation. This was written in 2014 about Twitter, it holds for Facebook as well now.https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/attacking-the-stream …
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @MDockrayMiller and
In addition, there is peer-reviewed research on why academics are on social media and use social media: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17439884.2015.1015547 … Though all of
@bonstewart work I would recommend.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
You are really asking why people read society and field newsletters etc. We read it and respond b/c we want to know what's going on the field. The speed is faster, but the frames are similar.
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