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#polisci Twitter: A Descriptive Analysis of how Political Scientists Use Twitter in 2019

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2020

James Bisbee Open the ORCID record for James Bisbee [Opens in a new window] ,
Jennifer Larson  and
Kevin Munger
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Abstract

Knowledge creation is a social enterprise, especially in political science. Sharing new findings widely and quickly is essential for progress. Scholars can now use Twitter to rapidly disseminate ideas, and many do. What are the implications of this new tool? Who uses it, how do they use it, and what are the implications for exacerbating or ameliorating existing inequalities in terms of research dissemination and attention? We construct a novel dataset of all 1,236 political science professors at PhD-granting institutions in the United States who have a Twitter account to answer these questions. We find that female scholars and those on the tenure track are more likely to use Twitter, especially for the dissemination of research. However, we consistently find that research by men shared on Twitter is more likely to be passed along further by men than research by women.

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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 2022 , pp. 879 - 900
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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*Data replication sets are available in Harvard Dataverse at: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SUBWTT

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