Academic communication, academic hierarchies, career planning motive, community development motive, digital scholarship, Early career researchers, Featured, following behaviour, free, Higher Education, information motive, Social Media, social media dynamics, strategic politeness, Twitter
New media, familiar dynamics: academic hierarchies influence academics’ following behaviour on Twitter
For what reasons do academics follow one another on Twitter? Robert Jäschke, Stephanie B. Linek and Christian P. Hoffmann analysed the Twitter activity of computer scientists and found that while the quality of information provided by a Twitter account is a key motive for following academic colleagues, there is also evidence of a career planning motive. As well as there […]