[CITASA] Twitter list for sociologists
I've been trying to connect with other sociologists on Twitter without much success. I've found many academics keep their social networks small & limited to people they know off-line, mainly other faculty, students, friends and relatives. Most just don't follow many people back.
I'm in the Beta test group (5% of users) who are trying out the new list feature on Twitter. If you haven't heard of it, it's a way for other people to follow a stream of conversation from a user-defined group of people (say, "journalists", "music", "sports", or "developers") without actually "following" the individuals or expecting to be followed back in return. So, for example, instead of following every newspaper & news organization, you could have a "News" list that includes all of the feeds on to Twitter & scan the list of messages to find out the latest news (instead of actually receiving all of those messages in your feed).
I wanted to put together a list of sociologists & sociology resources (federal agencies, RSS feeds, book publishers, Sociology Depts.) on Twitter but quickly found when you do a biography search for "sociology" (or "anthropology"), you end up with a lot of social media people who have appropriated the title but have no academic training in the field. So, that proved to be an unsuccessful tactic to locating people to add to the list.
So, I'd like to put out a call for folks to either contact me via email or Twitter & give me your username if you'd like to be included or if you know of other sociologists on Twitter. In New York City tech & media circles, I've found there is a lot of interest in what sociologists have to say about developing technology & media but an unfamiliarity with the most of the scholars working in the field.
So far, I have 83 users (people or groups) on the list. Because I found many academics who are working on social aspects of technology are in new media studies or cyberstudies, I changed the name of the list from Sociologists to Social Research to reflect that it's now interdisciplinary.
I don't know how much people will rely on these lists once they go system-wide but I thought it would be good to amplify the presence of scholars on Twitter and let other people participate in the conversations that occur in that forum.
Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions!
Liz Pullen
nwjerseyliz@yahoo.com
@nwjerseyliz
One suggestion:
The journal "Contexts" is on twitter. I'm not a tweeter, so I can't tell
you how active or successful it has been, but is certainly a place for
sociologists.
It's a quarterly magazine, published by ASA, and currently edited by
faculty at the University of Minnesota. It "makes sociology interesting and
relevant to anyone interested in how society operates."
-Lara Cleveland
On Oct 23 2009, Liz wrote:
I've been trying to connect with other sociologists on Twitter without
much success. I've found many academics keep their social networks small
& limited to people they know off-line, mainly other faculty, students,
friends and relatives. Most just don't follow many people back.
I'm in the Beta test group (5% of users) who are trying out the new list
feature on Twitter. If you haven't heard of it, it's a way for other
people to follow a stream of conversation from a user-defined group of
people (say, "journalists", "music", "sports", or "developers") without
actually "following" the individuals or expecting to be followed back in
return. So, for example, instead of following every newspaper & news
organization, you could have a "News" list that includes all of the feeds
on to Twitter & scan the list of messages to find out the latest news
(instead of actually receiving all of those messages in your feed).
I wanted to put together a list of sociologists & sociology resources
(federal agencies, RSS feeds, book publishers, Sociology Depts.) on
Twitter but quickly found when you do a biography search for "sociology"
(or "anthropology"), you end up with a lot of social media people who
have appropriated the title but have no academic training in the field.
So, that proved to be an unsuccessful tactic to locating people to add to
the list.
So, I'd like to put out a call for folks to either contact me via email
or Twitter & give me your username if you'd like to be included or if you
know of other sociologists on Twitter. In New York City tech & media
circles, I've found there is a lot of interest in what sociologists have
to say about developing technology & media but an unfamiliarity with the
most of the scholars working in the field.
So far, I have 83 users (people or groups) on the list. Because I found
many academics who are working on social aspects of technology are in new
media studies or cyberstudies, I changed the name of the list from
Sociologists to Social Research to reflect that it's now
interdisciplinary.
I don't know how much people will rely on these lists once they go
system-wide but I thought it would be good to amplify the presence of
scholars on Twitter and let other people participate in the conversations
that occur in that forum.
Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions!
Liz Pullen
nwjerseyliz@yahoo.com
@nwjerseyliz
--
Research Fellow PhD Candidate
Minnesota Population Center Department of Sociology
University of Minnesota University of Minnesota
50 Willey Hall 909 Social Science Tower
225 19th Avenue South 267 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455 Minneapolis, MN 55455
Office: 612-626-3926 / 612-624-5818
Cell: 612-240-6153
Email: clev0026@umn.edu
I'm also on Twitter; my user name is brwalters. Twitter has problems, as well as good promises -- in addition to legitimate Tweets, I receive pornographic "Follow Me" stuff on a regular basis, like an e-mail address that doesn't have a spam-blocker. But my Twitter acount is connected by an RSS feed to a Digication ePortfolio. I'm just getting started with the latter.
Barbara
Barbara Walters
Professor of Sociology
Consortial Faculty for the CUNY Online Baccalaureate
Kingsborough Community College
and School of Professional Studies
2001 Oriental Boulevard
Brooklyn, New York 11235
Phone/Voicemail: 718-368-5841
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Subject: Re: [CITASA] Twitter list for sociologistsOne suggestion:
The journal "Contexts" is on twitter. I'm not a tweeter, so I can't tell
you how active or successful it has been, but is certainly a place for
sociologists.It's a quarterly magazine, published by ASA, and currently edited by
faculty at the University of Minnesota. It "makes sociology interesting and
relevant to anyone interested in how society operates."-Lara Cleveland
On Oct 23 2009, Liz wrote:
> I've been trying to connect with other sociologists on Twitter without
> much success. I've found many academics keep their social networks small
> & limited to people they know off-line, mainly other faculty, students,
> friends and relatives. Most just don't follow many people back.
>
> I'm in the Beta test group (5% of users) who are trying out the new list
> feature on Twitter. If you haven't heard of it, it's a way for other
> people to follow a stream of conversation from a user-defined group of
> people (say, "journalists", "music", "sports", or "developers") without
> actually "following" the individuals or expecting to be followed back in
> return. So, for example, instead of following every newspaper & news
> organization, you could have a "News" list that includes all of the feeds
> on to Twitter & scan the list of messages to find out the latest news
> (instead of actually receiving all of those messages in your feed).
>
> I wanted to put together a list of sociologists & sociology resources
> (federal agencies, RSS feeds, book publishers, Sociology Depts.) on
> Twitter but quickly found when you do a biography search for "sociology"
> (or "anthropology"), you end up with a lot of social media people who
> have appropriated the title but have no academic training in the field.
> So, that proved to be an unsuccessful tactic to locating people to add to
> the list.
>
> So, I'd like to put out a call for folks to either contact me via email
> or Twitter & give me your username if you'd like to be included or if you
> know of other sociologists on Twitter. In New York City tech & media
> circles, I've found there is a lot of interest in what sociologists have
> to say about developing technology & media but an unfamiliarity with the
> most of the scholars working in the field.
>
> So far, I have 83 users (people or groups) on the list. Because I found
> many academics who are working on social aspects of technology are in new
> media studies or cyberstudies, I changed the name of the list from
> Sociologists to Social Research to reflect that it's now
> interdisciplinary.
>
> I don't know how much people will rely on these lists once they go
> system-wide but I thought it would be good to amplify the presence of
> scholars on Twitter and let other people participate in the conversations
> that occur in that forum.
>
>Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions!
>
>Liz Pullen
>nwjerseyliz@yahoo.com
>@nwjerseyliz
>--
Research Fellow PhD Candidate
Minnesota Population Center Department of SociologyUniversity of Minnesota University of Minnesota
50 Willey Hall 909 Social Science Tower
225 19th Avenue South 267 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455 Minneapolis, MN 55455Office: 612-626-3926 / 612-624-5818
Cell: 612-240-6153
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