Read on Twitter
Welcome to Twitter for Anthropologists (Thread)! Our #EASA2020 lab will guide you through the Twitter basics with activities throughout. For those not at the conference, welcome! Join our activities and tweet your questions to @DigEthnogLSE who will be running the #TNELive stream
First a thank you to @dtpowis @SavvyOlogy @hilaryagro @tsd1888 and @trgenovese for their amazing #AnthroTwitterWorkshop at the #AAACASCA 2019 for inspiring us to grow European involvement in #AnthroTwitter. Thanks also to @queerpunkanth for their guide https://footnotesblog.com/2019/03/08/academictwitter-a-how-to-guide-for-anthropologists/
This lab is co-hosted by us @NewEthnographer, a platform teaching, talking, and writing about challenges in contemporary fieldwork. We use Twitter to promote our work, chat with the academic community, learn about challenges facing researchers, & recruit writers/experts through
Also co-hosted by @DigEthnogLSE, a collective of digital ethnographers, represented by its co-founder @ZoeGlatt who is joining us today on Twitter. We use Twitter to share events, promote the work of our members and other digital ethnographers, & unite a community of scholars
The lab is organised around 4 sections with interactive activities. We'll start with the basics, then look at Twitter as:
An information resource
A fieldsite
A way to make fieldnotes
A space to network with a community
We'll be thinking about functions & accessibility throughout
An information resource
A fieldsite
A way to make fieldnotes
A space to network with a community
We'll be thinking about functions & accessibility throughout
First up! Twitter basics:
Twitter is a social networking and microblogging site that allows you to send and receive short messages of 280 characters.
Timelines are created through users’ followers and following hashtags, which display all Tweets using a hashtag.
#TNELive
Twitter is a social networking and microblogging site that allows you to send and receive short messages of 280 characters.
Timelines are created through users’ followers and following hashtags, which display all Tweets using a hashtag.
#TNELive
Choose a handle (@) and a name - you can change either of these at any time.
Bios (limited to 280 characters) give you the opportunity to explain who you are, your qualifications, & link any relevant websites
You can have personal and professional accounts & jump between them
Bios (limited to 280 characters) give you the opportunity to explain who you are, your qualifications, & link any relevant websites
You can have personal and professional accounts & jump between them
Your feed is all recent tweets from accounts you follow. Following is unidirectional; you can see other people’s tweets without them seeing yours.
Organise your feeds through lists - add users or hashtags around a specific theme of your choice and name the list accordingly
Organise your feeds through lists - add users or hashtags around a specific theme of your choice and name the list accordingly
Your tweets: short messages/statements/questions either for your followers to see or to be directed at a person/group/Twitter account.
You can use Tweets to micro-blog, have conversations, or share photos/links/content
Micro-blogging
You can use Tweets to micro-blog, have conversations, or share photos/links/content
Micro-blogging
What makes a good Tweet?
Hashtags, citing other tweets, photos, gifs/memes
Can't be edited after sending (but you can delete)
Careful what you tweet! Your tweets are public and searchable
Live-tweeting: a way of documenting an event in real time e.g. conferences/events
Hashtags, citing other tweets, photos, gifs/memes
Can't be edited after sending (but you can delete)
Careful what you tweet! Your tweets are public and searchable
Live-tweeting: a way of documenting an event in real time e.g. conferences/events
Threads (like this one!) allow you to link tweets together as a story, essentially replying to your own tweets
A way to bypass 280 character limit and organise multiple tweets
Plan the tweets in a separate document before you start
Number tweets so readers know it's a thread
A way to bypass 280 character limit and organise multiple tweets
Plan the tweets in a separate document before you start
Number tweets so readers know it's a thread
Retweeting copies a pre-existing tweet from yourself or another user into your personal feed
You can simply retweet or offer a comment above the original Tweet
The author of the original Tweet will be notified if you retweet them
You can simply retweet or offer a comment above the original Tweet
The author of the original Tweet will be notified if you retweet them
Accessibility: capitalise the first letter of each word in a hashtag to make it accessible for non-native speakers/those using text-to-speech software
A guide to making your tweets accessible: https://adrianroselli.com/2018/01/improving-your-tweet-accessibility.html
A guide to making your tweets accessible: https://adrianroselli.com/2018/01/improving-your-tweet-accessibility.html
Introductory activityTweet an intro to yourself - your name, research subject, any other relevant details using #TNELive
Then search #TNELive and follow someone you find interesting
Say hello or ask another participant a question on Twitter using their @
Next up: Twitter as info resource
Find out about your fieldsite through hashtags e.g. #Covid-19, #LebanonProtests
Connect remotely with people in your fieldsite
Follow news and events
See what’s trending locally
Follow journalists, activists, politicians, institutions
Find out about your fieldsite through hashtags e.g. #Covid-19, #LebanonProtests
Connect remotely with people in your fieldsite
Follow news and events
See what’s trending locally
Follow journalists, activists, politicians, institutions
ActivityTake 5 minutes to search for hashtags related to your research
Find a few people to follow
Tweet a question/thought using a hashtag you used
Now on to: tweeting about your own work
A way to promote your achievements and share your ideas
Engage with people outside academia who may be interested
Examples of anthropologists who Tweet on their own work
A way to promote your achievements and share your ideas
Engage with people outside academia who may be interested
Examples of anthropologists who Tweet on their own work
Try searching #AnthroTwitter
Or look at: @EmmaLouiseBacke, @ZoeGlatt, @Caitlin_Procter
Use hashtags or including people in the conversation.
Use threads to go into greater detail about your work
Or look at: @EmmaLouiseBacke, @ZoeGlatt, @Caitlin_Procter
Use hashtags or including people in the conversation.
Use threads to go into greater detail about your work
ActivityTweet a 3 tweet (or longer) thread about an aspect of your work using a relevant hashtag
Try adding in someone related to your work (or a lab participant/ @DigEthnogLSE if you prefer)
Finally: Twitter and the anthropological community
Who can you follow?
Journals, publishers, university departments
@OIIOxford
@AnthroGlasgow
@EuroAnth
@MaxPlanckPress
@CulAnth
@WileyAnthro
Who can you follow?
Journals, publishers, university departments
@OIIOxford
@AnthroGlasgow
@EuroAnth
@MaxPlanckPress
@CulAnth
@WileyAnthro
Prominent/active anthros on Twitter:
@anarparikh
@hilaryagro
@dtpowis
@ZoeGlatt
@TheodoraSutton
@lromeranth
@npseaver
@allergyPhD
@NayanikaM
@eyatesd
@queerpunkanth
@tsd1888
@trgenovese
@SavvyOlogy
@ZoeSTodd
@sarahshulist
@rinewithoutacat
@anarparikh
@hilaryagro
@dtpowis
@ZoeGlatt
@TheodoraSutton
@lromeranth
@npseaver
@allergyPhD
@NayanikaM
@eyatesd
@queerpunkanth
@tsd1888
@trgenovese
@SavvyOlogy
@ZoeSTodd
@sarahshulist
@rinewithoutacat
More prominent/active anthros:
@ThylacineReport
@afleisch_anthro
@TheVelvetDays
@robingnelson
@Ethnography911
@EmmaLouiseBacke
@Caitlin_Procter
@LorenaGibson
@LMesseri
@AliceTiara
This list is non-exhaustive! Reply with yourselves or anyone we’ve missed!
@ThylacineReport
@afleisch_anthro
@TheVelvetDays
@robingnelson
@Ethnography911
@EmmaLouiseBacke
@Caitlin_Procter
@LorenaGibson
@LMesseri
@AliceTiara
This list is non-exhaustive! Reply with yourselves or anyone we’ve missed!
You can also follow blogs and news outlets
@footnotesanthro
@TFSTweets
@somatosphere
@anthrodendum
The LSE Digital Ethnography Collective @DigEthnogLSE with its reading list: http://tinyurl.com/y8dfbsw5
@NewEthnographer
@footnotesanthro
@TFSTweets
@somatosphere
@anthrodendum
The LSE Digital Ethnography Collective @DigEthnogLSE with its reading list: http://tinyurl.com/y8dfbsw5
@NewEthnographer
Follow general academic things:
#anthrotwitter
#AcademicTwitter
#phdlife
#PhDChat
Conferences:
#AAACASCA2019
#CASCA
#EASA2020
@Aus_Anth
#anthrotwitter
#AcademicTwitter
#phdlife
#PhDChat
Conferences:
#AAACASCA2019
#CASCA
#EASA2020
@Aus_Anth
Initiatives:
#HauTalk
#DestabilisingEfforts
#CiteBlackWomen
#DecoloniseAnthropology
#DecoloniseYourCurriculum
#MeTooAnthro
#AnthroSoWhite
#AccessibleAnthro
(Again these lists are non-exhaustive - reply with your suggestions!)
#HauTalk
#DestabilisingEfforts
#CiteBlackWomen
#DecoloniseAnthropology
#DecoloniseYourCurriculum
#MeTooAnthro
#AnthroSoWhite
#AccessibleAnthro
(Again these lists are non-exhaustive - reply with your suggestions!)
ActivityTweet using the #anthrotwitter hashtag with a question or experience (or just introducing yourself)
Click on the hashtag and respond to someone else’s tweet
That's it for now! Keep in touch using #TNELive - these tweets will remain if you need to come back for more resources. For those watching the recording, feel free to take part in the activities as you go and we'll respond!
