Abstract
Since their advent in the early 2000s, social media platforms have become an important tool for forming connections, community, and facilitating global discourse regarding current events and trends. More recently, anthropologists have identified new ways to incorporate the resources that these digital platforms can provide, as a means of democratizing scholarship, relationship building, and engaging in community‐based practices. The idea that these resources can support the growth of anthropology as a field is explored via a comprehensive evaluation of the history of outreach within the field of anthropology, as well as an investigation using specific examples to explain how social media is currently being used by anthropologists. From this inquiry, a discussion regarding how social media platforms may grow, enhance, and nourish anthropological work begins to emerge, with special consideration given to the capacity for these platforms to respond to social justice movements.
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