From Academia to Social Media

The following are some insight into one of the authors from the academic journal I found at the U of A...Dr. Alonso.

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1)What is the name of the author (from the academic journal) that you selected and which social media networks were you able to find her/him on?

I selected author Manuel Alonso and I could not really find him on most social media networks. I only found him on LinkedIn.

2)How would you describe the author's social media presence? What kinds of things are they talking about or sharing on social media? Write a brief description of what you learned about them through the listed social media feeds.

Through his LinkedIn profile, Dr. Alonso is sharing basically other chemical topics such as magnetics and genetic news. His social media presence is not really consistent as he doesn't seem to share information on a periodic level.

3)Now return to the piece that this author published in the academic journal (from Blog Posts 6.5 & 6.6). How does their persona on social media differ from their persona in the pages of the academic journal? Be specific and cite details from both the journal and the social media posts you discovered.

Both personas are very similar in terms of how they present their written content to the audience. Both personas are very concise, very complex in vocabulary and yet the social media persona presents its contents in an almost different genre than that from the academic journal.