Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Emergence of the Social Media Scholar

Dear Toyin:

Thanks for this definition of your scholarship. It is great. Permit me, however, to problematize your definition a bit—not your self-identification. Social media scholar can also mean a person who studies social media, like African Studies scholar or Black History scholar. So, you may need to further sharpen your definition. 

Another point: if you say because you publish on/in social media platform and hence you are a social media scholar, does that mean that those who publish in scholarly journals are journals-scholars? ( I left the "s" in journals to analogize media, which is also in plural.)The question is: does the medium define the scholar and his/her work or the area of studies? Medium or content/discipline? Or both? 

What is style of scholarship? Is the style of your scholarship all about the medium of dissemination of knowledge or something else? 

Don't get me wrong, I understand and applaud what your are doing or trying to get across to us in terms of self-definition of your style of dissemination of knowledge. I am only nudging you to refine your definition and have fun or intellectual high with it while doing it.  

Thanks for your post.

Nimi Wariboko 

Boston University

On Feb 13, 2022, at 8:27 AM, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovdepoju@gmail.com> wrote:



Who is a social media scholar?

A social media scholar is a scholar for whom social media is a primary publishing platform for their scholarly work.

I've long struggled to understand my style of scholarship and this is the best way I've found to describe it.

I learn from conventional forms of scholarship and participate in them, to a degree, but this participation  is inadequate to motivate my quest for learning and sharing knowledge.

Having identified what I am and where I stand in relation to other forms of scholarship, the next step is to work out how to maximize this orientation.

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