{"id":760918,"date":"2020-04-01T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-blog-post&#038;p=760918"},"modified":"2021-09-16T15:24:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T22:24:51","slug":"twitter-a-biography","status":"publish","type":"msr-blog-post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/articles\/twitter-a-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter: A Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jean Burgess<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/baym\/\"><strong>Nancy K. Baym<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-761128 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/07\/Book_Baym_Twitter-Bio_cover-203x300.png\" alt=\"Book cover: Twitter A Biography\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/07\/Book_Baym_Twitter-Bio_cover-203x300.png 203w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/07\/Book_Baym_Twitter-Bio_cover-122x180.png 122w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/07\/Book_Baym_Twitter-Bio_cover.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/>The sometimes surprising, often humorous story of the forces that came together to shape the central role Twitter now plays in contemporary politics and culture<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Is Twitter a place for sociability and conversation, a platform for public broadcasting, or a network for discussion? Digital platforms have become influential in every sphere of communication, from the intimate and everyday to the public, professional, and political. Since the scrappy startup days of social media in the mid-2000s, not only has the worldwide importance of platforms grown exponentially, but also their cultures have shifted dramatically, in a variety of directions. These changes have brought new opportunities for progressive communities to thrive online, as well as widespread problems with commercial exploitation, disinformation, and hate speech.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9781479811069\/twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See news, reviews and how to get it ><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Twitter a place for sociability and conversation, a platform for public broadcasting, or a network for discussion? Digital platforms have become influential in every sphere of communication, from the intimate and everyday to the public, professional, and political. Since the scrappy startup days of social media in the mid-2000s, not only has the worldwide importance of platforms grown exponentially, but also their cultures have shifted dramatically, in a variety of directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40306,"featured_media":760942,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr-content-parent":706642,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-post-option":[],"class_list":["post-760918","msr-blog-post","type-msr-blog-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_assoc_parent":{"id":706642,"type":"group"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post\/760918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-blog-post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40306"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post\/760918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763903,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-blog-post\/760918\/revisions\/763903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=760918"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=760918"},{"taxonomy":"msr-post-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-post-option?post=760918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}