Social Media’s Research Potential

Social Media’s Research Potential Diana Brydon (bio) In her 2006 novel, Dreams of Speaking, Australian writer Gail Jones introduces a character, Alice Black, who is planning a book on “the unremarked beauty of modern things, of telephones, aeroplanes, computer screens and electric lights, of television, cars and underground transportation” (18), even as another character reminds her that “the difficulty with celebrating modernity … is that we...