About the Authors

Jeffrey Layne Blevins is Head of the Journalism Department at the University of Cincinnati and editor of the scholarly journal Democratic Communiqué. A frequent opinion-editorial columnist, Dr. Blevins’s commentary on media policy and ethics has appeared in USA Today, Cincinnati Enquirer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other venues. In 2009 he served as a federal grant reviewer for the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

James Jaehoon Lee is Director of the Digital Scholarship Center, Associate Dean of Research for Libraries, and Associate Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship at the University of Cincinnati.

The authors are grateful for the research assistance of Ezra Edgerton, a fellow in the Digital Scholarship Center at the University of Cincinnati; Alexandra Pasqualone, when she was a master’s student in the Department of History and Graduate Assistant in the Digital Scholarship Center; and Katie Coburn when she was a Journalism major at the University of Cincinnati.

Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks Resource Collections

Ezra Edgerton demonstrating how to create of Twitter interaction network from the archive.org datastream.