Social Media in Technical Communication By Amy Kimme Hea

          In this article she looks at the technical communication aspects of social media and why technical communicators research these online platforms. Amy argues that people tend to stereotype social media users as members of the millennial generation even though social media is used by a wide variety of people for many different reasons. Some of these uses she mentions include “LinkedIn”, crisis management, and project collaborations. A few others I can think of include political campaigning, marketing, and protest organization. During the Ukrainian crisis twitter and Facebook ere used to organize massive protests. The use of social media would help incentivize people to march in the street by assuring them of others participations. In Ukraine twitter was also used to inform protesters where they could find shelter, food, water, and medical aid. Many of these areas of social media are still being researched because the modern age of social media is relatively new and the world is still adapting to it.