From Academia to Social Media

Jason Howie, "Social Media Apps" via flickr, 3/23/13. CC0 Attribution.

Social media is the last stop on our research into the academic journal discussed in the previous two blog posts. Taking an author, Jeroen Van den Eynde, and searching his media presence allows me to find out what type of interactions professionals have across social media, especially ones outside of my area of influence.

Sites

Looking through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, the only social media site I could find Mr. Van den Eynde, was on LinkedIn, which matches up with his scholarly report on aerodynamic transitions within the AIAA journal.

Results

Because LinkedIn is more of a professional site designed to show off professional skills and projects, there is not much of a different between his writing in the journal, which is to a very formal level, and the type of writing he created on LinkedIn, where he is basically trying to sell his skills as a valuable team member. LinkedIn includes his skill set, past experience, such as being part of the ESA, and his writing experience, such as his article with the AIAA. The journal however, has a very small section on the authors experience, but the content of the article tells of the education and research level of the authors, such as Mr. Van den Eynde.

Conclusion

While one site is designed to impress, and has less formal language but also many more topics and subheading, the impression it give the public is the same, Mr. Van den Eynde is an educated and experienced man who is worthy of writing research papers or taking part of any aerospace engineering team.