Increasingly, academics across the disciplines rely on Twitter to share their research. Scholars in fields ranging from climate science (Katharine Hayhoe) to history (Kevin Kruse) use the platform to make their work available beyond “classrooms, journals, and the occasional book” (Pettit 2018). Yet the uptick in academic tweeting has received pushback from other scholars. Gordon Fraser (2019) writes that academic discourse requires sustained attention to the research and writing norms mastered in graduate school and is diluted when made widely available via Twitter.
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