What is social media about?
Photo by mikeleeorg (Creative Commons) In this post I will summarise my individual interest in this project and how it relates to my previous work. In my PhD I discussed a particular and apparently...
View ArticleWhat does poverty look like on social media?
Teenager from a low income family using Facebook (Photograph by Razvan Nicolescu) This blog post is part of a much larger theme of the impact of social media on low income populations. This is most...
View ArticleMemes: The internet’s moral police
On the face of it memes and religion would seem unlikely bedfellows, or even worthy of mention in the same discussion. Religions come to us from centuries of tradition and are defined by the continuity...
View ArticleFacebook as a window: managing online appearance
Shop window in Grano (Photograph by Razvan Nicolescu) A particularly common way that many people in the Italian field site thought about Facebook was by comparing it to a shop window (vetrina in...
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