Abstract: ABSTRACTThe use of Twitter by scholars for public engagement is well‐established in the literature. However, fewer studies have looked into the composition of users engaged in scholarly communication on Twitter. This paper considers the degree to which Twitter chats are dominated by established versus emerging or amateur scholars through an investigation of #critlib, a hashtag around which library and information scholars and practitioners have congregated. #critlib Tweets over a period of three months are examined using social network analys...
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Topics: 
Public relations
Media studies
World Wide Web