My work is about engaging #communicationtheory with problems in society through #metadiscourse or reflexive practical talk about communication. For example, right now I'm studying the different concepts of communication that people use for making arguments about #Twitter - why communication on Twitter is good or bad, why they are staying or leaving, and so on. Your thoughts?

#introducrions

I'm an emeritus professor of #communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, currently living in #philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A long time #Twitter user (@meta_d), I'm here to explore this alternative space. Honestly, I hate the idea of leaving Twitter and still hope it won't be necessary.

#argumentation
#communicationstudies
#communicationtheory
#DiscourseStudies
#DiscourseAnalysis
#LSI
#metadiscourse
#philosophyofcommunication
#socialinteraction
#theory

Reproducing a 99% serious twitter thread here since it isn't in my most recent takeout, and the wayback queue for twitter is 46 minutes due to lots of people backing up tweets, I guess.

https://twitter.com/mlinksva/status/1604562638167371777

The new alt platforms promo policy is amazing https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy

Let's push further in that direction, variance and learning are good!

How about banning #metadiscourse? Twitter=experience public square and soon everything market, not experience discussion about these.

I'm going to get both my throwaway #Mastodon #metadiscourse thoughts in one toot and never return to the subject.

1) I wish people could get notifications when we like or boost something they boost. You should get dopamine for being a talented booster.

2) I like that they're called toots. You can't take yourself as seriously if every time you want to say something you have to toot it. #StayHumble