My Interviewees on Social Media

Social media is a great way to communicate. However, I feel like once we get to the professionals, the allure of social media dies down. This is probably due to various reasons such as security, communication through professional sites, and maybe even the age barrier. In this post I scanned Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitter, WordPress, and Youtube for information on my interviewees.

Herbalife. "Social Media Tag Cloud Network" June 2015 via pixabay. Public Domain

1. Interviewees and Social Media
 I had a hard time finding something on Kelly Potter. I was not able to find much on any of the social media sites stated above. The only things that I really found were Facebook and Twitter posts that referenced her name, but that was about it.

As for Jerzy Rozenblit, I was able to find a bit more. I found that he has a Facebook and a LinkedIn account, but by the looks of them, he is not very active in either of them. I did, however, find a lot of mentions of him in almost all of the above social media sites. The only social media sites that did not mention him were Instagram and WordPress.

2. Social Media Presence
I did not find much on Kelly Potter. I did find out, though, that she was recently elected Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. I also found out that Kelly Potter is collecting research from a project on the ISS. On Twitter I saw essentially the same information.

Jerzy Rozenblit had a bigger presence on social media. He is mentioned various time by various people for his work in computer aided surgery. In addition there are various videos. Facebook, Reddit, Tumblr, Twitter, and Youtube all have various post on Dr. Rozenblit's work.

One interesting thing that I found on Youtube was a video that tells a lot of Dr. Rozenblit's backstory. It also answered many questions to why he got into computer aided surgery.

I decided to try to find my backup interviewee, Hal S. Tharp on social media and I yielded very minimal results. I found that he has a LinkedIn--that seems to be rarely used-- and a Youtube channel. The Youtube channel only has tutorial videos for his classes

3. Persona on Social Media vs. Persona in the Pages of the Academic Journal
Well the main difference is that there is not much on social media compared to the academic journals. Dr. Jerzy Rozenblit has over 140 combined publications, but zero posts on his Facebook page. Nonetheless, the post that mention him do correlate with his work in computer assisted surgery.

Most of Dr. Rozenblit's recent publications have been on computer assisted surgery and the Facebook posts mention his work and the presentations he has done on it.

As for Dr. Kelly Potter, her social media presence is negligible. However, she does have over 40 academic publications.

I found one journal titled "Effect of low-earth orbit space radiation-induced absorption in rare-earth-doped optical fibers" that correlated to a Twitter post talking about how Dr. Kelly S. Potter was in the process of analyzing research that was conducted on the ISS. I do not really know what else to compare here since there really is not much.