From Academia to Social Media

This post made me realize that the authors in these esteemed journals also have a personal life. As accomplished as they are, they do have a separate life from work and they are not opposed to sharing that on social media platforms.

1.    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?

The name of the author in the academic journal I will do further research on is Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa. I was available to find Sirkka Jarvenpaa on LinkedIn and Facebook

2.    How would you describe the author's social media presence? What kinds of things are they talking about or sharing on social media? Write a brief description of what you learned about them through the listed social media feeds.

Sirkaa does not post very often. Her Facebook posts are personal, meaning that they are about her own life instead of the kind of work that she is producing as a professor at the University of Texas. I learned that she is a fan of formula one racing and that was about all that I could find in her posts.

3.    Now return to the piece that this author published in the academic journal (from Blog Posts 6.5 & 6.6). How does their persona on social media differ from their persona in the pages of the academic journal? Be specific and cite details from both the journal and the social media posts you discovered.

What differs from her social media presence and her publication in the Academy of Management Research is that her social media is non-professional in a sense. Her Facebook posts are about her family and her love for racing while her article that is published in the journal is about the theory of sharing interorganizational collaboration or protecting it. It is obvious she keeps her social media life and work life separate.

 

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