Outside In: An interview with Dr Ingrid Matthews

Yep, she's the person who does the Insiders' thread every Sunday on Twitter

This is the first in a series of interviews with people whose work I admire and whom I have got to know about through social media, mainly Twitter.

One of the things I want to do with these chats is confront the notion that social media is nothing but a sewer, the self-interested idea peddled relentlessly by the mainstream media and politicians.

Like any forum, social media has many downsides, and hopefully these interviews will shed light on the actual problems; but these spaces also give voice to a range of thinkers and analysts, experts and engaged citizens, as well as groups underrepresented in the mainstream media, and I want to highlight the excellent work being done by these people.

I am incredibly happy to say that the first person I am speaking with is Ingrid Matthews BEc LLB PhD.

She is well-known to Australian Twitter users for her insightful comments on politics, and for her weekly thread in which she summarises and dissects that ultimate symbol of the Australian political cl…