Evaluation of Social Media Sources

For this post, I will be evaluating social media sources. I have found two tweets referring to the same subject that Nadella was addressing when he made his controversial comments; women in the field of computer science.

McAdams, Hunter Laptop Screenshot of Tweet, September 3, 2015

• Credibility: - After looking at Katie's profile I came to found out she is not a very credible account. I could not find out any personal information her. All I learned from researching her was that she uses her twitter to tweet articles out. I wasn't able to find any organization that she belonged to. 
• Location - Katie is not(from what I can tell) deeply involved in the controversy. She was not at the Grace Hopper convention where Nadella made the comments that created the controversy. She also doesn't seem to be in the computer science field, she just is interested in the topic of women in computer science. 
• Network - Random accounts follow them along with ghost followers(people who have an account but don't use their twitter). Her followers amount to a grand total of 11. Among those are accounts such as "Villa night club" and "Acorn tutoring". The followers also lack credibility and don't relate to the computer science field or the controversy. 
• Content - The content of this tweet is a link to an article that explores women in computer science and how they actually are superior to men when it comes to learning how to code. It also explains how IT companies are seeking out women to hire but there aren't women applying. 
• Contextual updates - After browsing Katie's timeline I see that she doesn't tweet about women in computer science. She does tweet about news and links articles in her tweets about the most recent news. This is most likely why she tweeted about this as it has been in the news recently. 
• Age - The account has been on Twitter since March 24th of 2013. Although this account has been active for over two years now the account only has 137 tweets which is not that many considering the amount of time it has been active. Most of the tweets are also links to articles. 
• Reliability - Although the account itself does not seem reliable, the article it has linked in the tweet is a reliable article. For that reason I would say the specific tweet that is being analyzed is a reliable tweet. 

McAdams, Hunter Laptop Screenshot of Tweet, September 3, 2015

Credibility: - The owner of this account is named Tom Parslow. After reading his bio I learned that he is a computer science teacher at a high school. He is only a high school teacher, not a professor or something higher, this still gives him experience in the field. He has studied computer science and has personally seen the lack of women in the computer science field.

Location - His location is as a computer science teacher at a high school. He can understand the controversy from his location because he can see how many more males take his classes than females.  

Network - Parslow's following on twitter seems fairly normal. It seems as if there are some students that follow him. He is also followed by some computer science accounts, such as tutoring ones and Photoshop. He is also followed by accounts that aren't as credible, the ghost followers. 

Content - The content of this tweet is pretty straight forward. His tweet is linked to another account, "Code.org". The account he linked to is very credible as it has a blue check. The article he is tweeting about explains the gap between men, and then everyone else(including women) in computer science. He says that he speaks of this gap in class, possibly trying to make it a smaller gap. 

Contextual updates - Parslow tweets about computer science often. He does not just tweet about women in computer science, but instead computer science as a whole. He tweets about different companies such as Google and Apple. He also tweets about stories/articles on coding. 

Age - The account has been on Twitter since August 9th of 2014.

Reliability - The account, tweet, and information/article of the tweet are all credible. The twitter handle has credibility regarding computer science. The article that is linked is reliable as it is from "Code.org". It also explores the same topic that sparked the Nadella controversy.