Tweets to Follow

Posted on April 6, 2009
Filed Under The Daily Prereq | By Jessica Gross

Not on Twitter? You might want to rethink your decision. The Chronicle of Higher Education just came out with a list of 10 profs to follow for the latest news on their research (mostly new-media based).

The list includes Jay Rosen, associate professor of journalism at NYU; Howard Rheingold, a UC Berkeley lecturer on virtual communities and social media; and Dan Cohen, director of the Center for History and New Media at GMU.

If you’re still not sold on signing up for Twitter, read The Chronicle’s well-worded defense, after the jump.

Twitter is quickly becoming a global faculty lounge. Sure, it’s easy to waste a lot of time on the Internet-based microblogging service reading mundane details about people’s days. But you can also pick up some great higher-education gossip, track down colleagues to collaborate with, or get advice on how to improve your teaching or research….

Once you find a few interesting people to follow, you can order up Twitter anytime and dip into a rich soup of thought.

To read the full story, go here.

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