My Interviewees on Social Media

The following are my thoughts on what I found about my two interviewees on social media....also, quick comment, I would  consider LinkedIn to be the least "social" of the social medias (but that's a topic for another blog post I am sure...).

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1. What are the names of each interviewee and which social media networks were you able to find each of them on? 

The names of my interviewees are Vicente Talanquer and Craig Aspinwall. I was able to find Talanquer on Youtube and as for Aspinwall, I managed to find his research group's Facebook page.

2. How would you describe each interviewee'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.

On Youtube, Talanquer's presence is not very omniscient I would say. He only has one video where he is doing a presentation in Chile but it is important to mention the video is not from his Youtube channel as he does not have one. 

As for Dr. Aspinwall, his research group's page seems to be mostly used by the peers of his group and not him personally. He briefly posted things which were mainly messages congratulating his peers on their accomplishments. 

3.Now return to the piece that this author published in the academic journal (from Blog Posts 6.2). 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.

For Dr.Talanquer, his persona is very similar in the Youtube video to the manner in which he presented himself in his academic journals. He speaks in a very conservative manner in the video as he writes in his academic journal. 

For Aspinwall, he seems to be more informal on social media compared to the tone in which he writes for his research journals. However, I would not find this as anything shocking because honestly on social media, he is in a context where he is speaking to people he know from his research group. He isn't posting information waiting to be peer reviewed so to speak. No, Aspinwall is simply posting messages to his close peers of his research groups and therefore I think this is an unfair comparison of the social media and academic persona of him since the context in which each persona is in is different.