From Academia to Social Media

            This blogpost is intended to give me a better understanding of the writer of the article from the academic journal that I chose.

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What is the name of the author (from the academic journal) that you selected and which social media networks were you able to find her/him on?

             Dr. Michael A. Jacoby- Found on Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter.

How would you describe the author's social media presence? What kinds of things are they talking about or sharing on social media? 

             The author has a very informative Linkedin account. There is a good amount of background information on him such as education, profession, recommendations, etc. I was not able to get any information from his Facebook account, he has not used it since 2013 and there was really no posts from him. His twitter, however, is very active and he is really into tweeting about funding for education in Illinois. There are a few personal tweets, like his love for the Chicago Cubs, but most of his tweets are about educational budgets and link his followers to articles.

Now return to the piece that this author published in the academic journal. How does their persona on social media differ from their persona in the pages of the academic journal?

             It is a little hard to relate his tweets to his writings in the academic journal, solely for the fact that on twitter there isn't much writing. However one does get a sense of his passion for advocating for the improvement of education in Iowa. His tweets do relate to some of the points in his editor's note. For example, he tweets about the Vision 20/20 organization here and this is matched to his explanation of the program in The Journal for School Business Management (Jacoby, 9).