Presenters Bill Wolff, Saint Joseph’s University Devon Ralston, Miami University Review Presenting immediately after Stephanie Vie’s keynote on social media’s increasing influence, Devon Ralston and Bill Wolff explored the possibilities for and ethics of researching social media with their panel “The Ethics and Archives of Doing Social Media Research.” Through anecdotes, lit reviews, methods, software considerations, and questions, they challenged the field to view social media research as more than something we should do given its pervasiveness, but to instead position it as something that has extreme relevance and thus requires sensitivity because of its presence in many people’s lives.…
Author: Spencer Smith
John Joseph Silvestro
Spencer is a MA student focusing on rhetoric and composition in Ohio University’s English department. He is interested in pedagogy, learning, and how classroom activities help students compose their identities. Outside of the classroom, Spencer also seeks to teach and learn in www.smithbrainconnections.com, an organization he co-founded.