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I get why they did it this way, but I would rather read a study of political journalists on twitter that acknowledges that the work and the conversation ISN'T limited to the Beltway. It's 2018. The whole point of Twitter is that location doesn't matter.https://www.scribd.com/document/382342197/Twitter-Makes-It-Worse-Political-Journalists-Gendered-Echo-Chambers-and-the-Amplification-of-Gender-Bias?campaign=SkimbitLtd&ad_group=66960X1516588X79448305609f0df55090b4ba6ecd8951&keyword=660149026&source=hp_affiliate&medium=affiliate …
this is a study about the men who are more likely to have achieved a very specific kind of success in traditional journalism in washington, a city that loves its traditional gatekeeping. It's not, exactly, a study of political journalists on twitter.
Am I defending the men in this study? lol no. Am I saying the study misses what could be a way more interesting forest for a very small boring tree? yeah.
you might enjoy this story: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/04/upshot/male-nurses.html …
I asked @maggieNYT to RT this thread which lists lots of female journalists to follow and instead she RTs the tweet above. Smh.https://twitter.com/gingergibson/status/1010206677927424000?s=21 …
You don’t get how social science works. This study is the first step in an unexplored area. The initial discovery. Now work continues to expand the scope. It is unrealistic to expect the world in the first research study.
Twitter and FB have become the "Digital Soapbox".
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