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

I do not think that there is need to define/designate scholars by the medium through which they diseminate/diseminated their scholarship.

In my opinion, scholars are scholars. There are no social media, Journals and scroll scholars.

The above also applies to all other endervours, like creative writing, in which ideas are diseminated through different media depending on the era.

-Chidi Anthony Opara (CAO)

On Sunday, February 13, 2022, 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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