Read on Twitter
Interesting discussion this morning about academics with public-facing social media use (& even op-eds!) & the potential COIs (beyond financial)- esp for those who evaluate policies in the course of their work. It's touching on a lot of things that have been on my mind lately.
Personally, I have been less active on social media (i.e. sharing fewer original thoughts) after witnessing a tide change after the election. I'm doing a lot of people watching for now.
That said, none of my core values have changed. I'm just trying to be strategic.
That said, none of my core values have changed. I'm just trying to be strategic.
That + the fact that I have more followers (*waves*), which comes w/ the assumption that I have a "platform". I've been careful, given that my employer is public knowledge, & a public institution.
Tweeting as a faculty member is very different from tweeting as a grad student.
Tweeting as a faculty member is very different from tweeting as a grad student.
There is also a racial & gendered valence to this also- as a public-facing Twitter user who is also faculty at a public institution, I am judged based on my social positionality as a Black woman. With that lens, it is all too easy to "read" me as hostile & partial.
Once my follower "count" exceeded 10K, I realized that I could not quote-tweet w/o being read as hostile. I changed how I engage b/c the assumption was that I was NOT engaging in good faith.
+ generally, people don't parse tone, which
the likelihood of presuming incompetence.
+ generally, people don't parse tone, which
the likelihood of presuming incompetence.
