I happen to have that research right here, Mr Keller
The day sociologist Zeynep Tufekci dropped a bundle of knowledge on the New York Times's Bill Keller (with help from Twitter and a whole lot of scholarship)
Bill Keller tells @antderosa that he doesn't actually think Twitter makes you stupid: http://is.gd/BRZsXF -- whew! what a relief :-)UMBC's Tufekci, though, wasn't all that relieved that Keller seemed to be walking back "Twitter makes you stupid."
Instead, she took direct aim at Keller's new claim about the limits/costs of social media: "The time you spend keeping up with your 200 Facebook friends is time you are not getting to know someone really well in person."- Note: not just a dismissal! Not just conjecture! Not even "just" a refutation! An alternative hypothesis with better support from the data.In just four tweets. Ka-pow.
1993 called & wants its stereotypes back from @nytkeller. RT @nancybaym: Who needs research when you can rely on intuition & stereotypes?Now, Bill Keller doesn't tweet much. And he almost never engages with critics, especially outside the Times. In his interview with Keller, De Rosa points out to Keller that he [De Rosa] "was the only non-New York Times staffer you ever replied to in over two years over Twitter."
- But something in Tufecki's tweets -- perhaps the boldness, perhaps the unmistakable aura of a deliberate, well-developed argument -- must have caught Mr. Keller's attention.
- So the Times' executive editor asked for more. And boy, did he get it.
- .@nytkeller Nationally-representative sample, @barrywellman & Wang: http://bit.ly/lTOHPV Either no diff or heavy net-users have more friends
- Correction, sorry. RT @mubaraketganen: @mysocnet @nytkeller there was an extra RT at the end of the link, this works http://bit.ly/acnWcM
- .@nytkeller, latest @pewinternet by @mysocnet http://bit.ly/jphw7B. Need to look at regressions. No effect of FB or Twitter on network size.
