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Convivial practices, gossiping and the materiality of the smartphone
photo by philcampbell (creative commons) I received my first Smartphone as a Christmas gift a few months ago. I know, you will probably think this may come as quite a late development for a researcher...
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The ‘timeline’ as narrative?
Image courtesy of Alec Couros, Flickr Creative Commons Last January, Facebook replaced the ‘wall’ and introduced the ‘timeline’, ‘a new kind of profile that lets you highlight the photos, posts and...
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Social networking and social relations
Photo by Razvan Nicolescu Epistemologically, this project is starting from the premise that ‘social networking’ is not something new. In the project proposal I suggested that the science of...
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Digital public, publics, publicness
(image, courtesy of davitydave, Creative Commons) Doing what is essentially two simultaneous ethnographies is no simple task (‘Simple’ as in ‘straightforward’, not ‘easy’. Conducting ethnography is...
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Social media in social spaces
Toasting to New Friends (Photo by Nell Haynes) The first time I was invited out by friends on a Friday night in my fieldsite in Northern Chile, I was surprised by the ways social media and technology...
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Facebook and the vulnerability of the self
Photo by Elisabetta Costa A social panic surrounding Facebook has arisen in my field-site in south-east Turkey: nasty cheaters use hacker applications to steal Facebook user names and passwords in...
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Teens are obsessed about spell checking thanks to Facebook
Photo by Juliano Spyer Schoolteachers and staff in Baldoíno have a common perspective about the impact of social media on education. For them, Facebook and similar services are bad because they make...
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On death and desserts: Mourning heroes on Facebook
Photo courtesy of Creative Commons On 5 December 2013, Nelson Mandela died. At the time, I was reviewing about 50 different Facebook accounts of people living in my Northern Chile fieldsite to see in a...
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Social media Goldilocks: Keeping friendship at a distance
Many people seem to think that social media such as Facebook are principally a means to find and to develop relationships such as friendship. Clearly those people don’t try to study the English. I have...
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Social media and the shifting boundaries between private and public in a...
Photo posted on the Facebook profile of a research participant Facebook is designed to encourage people to reveal information about themselves, and the market model of Facebook’s founder Mark...
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