Considering Our Guiding Questions

Let's recap the guiding questions we learned earlier:

Who is the intended audience?
Do the authors have authority? Why or why not?
Is the publisher trustworthy?
Does the author use citations? Do they tell you where they got their information?

It may be hard to answer these questions based around the information available to us on Instagram, but we can try! First, let's do some digging to learn more about who @noodle.phd is and what kind of audience they are appealing to, and whether or not they have authority.

Below is the account information available on @noodle.phd on Instagram. We can see that this person has a decent number of followers (1,590) and appears to be in grad school, and has a YouTube account. Due to their account name, @noodle.phd, we might assume that they are working on completing a PhD.

Let's click on the account's shared YouTube link to learn more about the person behind the account.

Read it!

We can see that @noodle.phd is Christine Liu. The About Me section of Christine's YouTube page says the following:

Join me on behind-the-scenes looks at my process behind creating art and doing science! I'm a scientist by training and a self-taught artist, pursuing a PhD in neuroscience at UC Berkeley and making art through Two Photon Art.

While we don't see anymore links to help us learn more about Christine Liu, we can keep investigating to learn more about her. Click next to keep digging deeper into this source.