In this blog post, I will be searching all over the internet for the two people that I interviewed: Dr. Sydney Pettygrove and Yvonne Bueno.
Dr. Sydney Pettygrove's Social Media:
Yvonne Bueno's Social Media:
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.
In Dr. Pettygrove's Facebook, I found that she posts a lot of pictures of her traveling and of her with her family. There were a few posts about mental health a gun regulations, marriage equality, and one about the Congressmen of the US. Other than that, it was pretty bland and simple. I learned that family seems to be very important to her as is mental health. Her LinkedIn was not very full of information from what I could see without having a LinkedIn account. It just made her seem very professional and had her listed as an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Arizona.
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In Yvonne Bueno's Facebook, I found a lot of pictures of family as well. There were pictures of her graduating from her Master's program at the University of Arizona and her friends. She posted the link to the interview that she conducted for the Tucson Medical Center. It was pretty normal and there was nothing that was inappropriate at all. Her LinkedIn was also very professional and informative. She included her past education and her past jobs. She also explained what she is doing now with her Doctorate program and her teaching position at the University of Arizona.
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.
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The differences between Dr. Pettygrove's social media and her academic publications are pretty noticeable. Her Facebook is casual and not anything too out there. So compared to her research papers, where there is a higher level of education needed to understand what it is that she is talking about, her Facebook is for all audiences and shows her actual personality. However, in the research publications, her persona comes off as very professional and educated. The vocabulary is completely different and from reading those publications, one wouldn't be able to tell what kind of person she was outside of her research. For example, in her publication of ASD diagnostic tests, she would not bring up the vacation that she spent with her family.
The differences between Yvonne Bueno's social media and her publications are not as noticeable because Yvonne comes off as a professional in her Facebook and LinkedIn profiles but also comes off with the same persona in her interview and her lectures. In her lectures and her interviews, she does not mention her family or her friends, however she still comes off as a sweet person in her professional work. Her lectures are more personable and isn't completely impossible to understand what she is saying because of her use of scientific vocabulary. In addition, her LinkedIn profile is very professional but seems to be easy-going as well. I think that her social media and her professional publications both show the real person that is doing the behind the scenes work.
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