Sara Goldrick-Rab

#AERAPubScholar excellent panel. The honest sharing is much appreciated.

@EdTech_FTW @EdTech_FTW Me too! I am trying to engage in these conversations while nursing my baby girl #aerapubscholar

Panel on role of social media & scholarship at #AERA16: even academics have trolls (advice: just block them) #AERAPubScholar

Saying that you can't have substantiative debate on twitter assumes is false. #aerapubscholar #AERA16 #AERA2016

Hoping to hear about chilling effects on social media use for researchers of political and educational issues. #AERApubscholar

So every time @tressiemcphd & others stretch their wings to explain broader world, I cheer. And learn. 13/13.

I worry, though, that "explaining" (mediating) is the default work of white scholars/journalists, esp. white men. 12/

I am comfortable in that voice, consistent with who I think I am. That is the only way I think one can make those choices. 11/

I also constructed blog around explaining field, different from single-issue blogs such as @ProfessorJVH @vamboozled_ 10/

Most prominent is that I did not become an active blogger until after tenure -- my age, in part. 9/

In many ways, I have luxuries in constructing a public persona 8/

Realizing this pm I have made some very different choices from @saragoldrickrab @ProfessorJVH @DianeRavitch et al. 7/

Being more public involves exposure to trolling/threats, esp. for women, scholars of color. People handle in different ways. 6/

.@janelletscott had THE question in session w/ @agamoran Sat. am -- how do we think of research use in social movements? 5/

I would never have known of @tressiemcphd w/o Twitter 2/

After several #AERA16 public-scholarship sessions, a few thoughts... 1/