012 - ASA Social Media Pre-Conference Workshop 09. Framing Sociological Research for Social Media

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Abstract

This workshop explores the process of telling stories with our data that the public wants to read and can easily understand. This workshop presents the best practices identified in the literature (for instance see Pinker's (2014) The Sense of Style). Any professional academic can learn how to tweet, but learning how to translate your research written in academese into a human readable format is exceptionally hard. This style of writing is not taught in grad school and opportunities for this style of writing are not structured into most academic careers.

Sub Unit

• Courses

Session Organizer

• Dustin Kidd, Temple University

Leader

• Nathan Scott Palmer, Georgia Southern University