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wishcrys

From ‘Networked Publics’ to ‘Refracted Publics’

I am pleased to announce that I have a new […]

T Magazine Feature on TikTok e-boys

23 February 2021 update: The article is now online here. * I recently contributed to a feature piece in the New York Times Style T Magazine for a piece on […]

Internet culture

‘wishcrys podcasts’ on Spotify

Some of the podcasts I have guested on are now on Spotify. You can find them in a playlist titled ‘wishcrys podcasts‘. Features chats on influencer cultures, blogshops, online shame, […]

Influencers

TEDx talk on Internet Culture and Social Media

In November last year, I was invited to give a […]

Influencers

Mapping Internet Celebrity on TikTok

It’s my first day back in the office after five weeks of annual leave and wfh, and I am really happy to share my first article of the year, mapping […]

Academica Dramatica

lessons from/for my work life.

lessons from my work life last year: i have become a much happier and contented person after choosing to compartmentalise my social media and internet life into work and non-work; […]

Internet culture

Beyond the viral video: What happens after viral fame

I am really glad to be able to contribute expert […]

Influencers

Lifeworlds: An interview with Crystal Abidin

Last month, I had the honour of being interviewed by Asli Telli Aydemir, whom I first met at the Locating Media research group at University of Siegen, for the latest […]

Internet culture

Audio Templates as Identity and Intimacy on TikTok

It is the last day of Digital Intimacies 6 (#DigInt20), and […]

Internet culture

TikTok and Digital Intimacies in the Time of COVID-19: A backstory

Today, I presented some of my ongoing research on COVID-19 […]

Internet culture

‘Cultures of TikTok in the Asia Pacific’ Symposium

I am excited to announce that registration for ‘Cultures of […]

Internet culture

Meme factories and content pivoting during COVID-19

A few weeks ago, my latest article on meme factory […]

Influencers

How social media Influencers are shaping Singapore’s GE2020

GE2006 was the “internet elections” for the emergence of political […]

Internet culture

Academic studies on social media use during Singapore’s General Elections

Here is a compilation of select academic studies on the […]

Influencers

Singaporean influencers and COVID-19 on Instagram Stories.

Last week I had the privilege of being invited to […]

Influencers

A Review of Formal and Informal Regulations in the Nordic Influencer Industry.

Hi. I am happy to share that our article reviewing […]

Academica Dramatica

Canon, Status, and Gatekeeping in Academia

Please take this not as a smarty pants academic essay or provocative opinion editorial but as one academic with many feelings writing a diary entry. I am aware that there […]

Academica Dramatica

read / seen / mark as unread

to all the messages i haven’t replied; 1. hello. thank you for your email. i have received it, and the follow-up you sent later on the same day, and the […]

Influencers

Influencer and Social Media Industries Adapting to COVID-19.

I have been reviewing interview transcripts from my project looking […]

Influencers

Hanging Out At Home As A Lifestyle (in the time of COVID-19)

As city-wide lockdowns and home-isolations kicked in across various countries […]

Academica Dramatica

One year @ Curtin

Today is my one-year anniversary at Curtin ✨ I am thankful for many things, and my gratitude is only heightened during this time where so many of my cohort mates and […]

Brainfarts

Everyday joys.

These days the only other humans I see regularly apart from my partner are our postal delivery persons. Some days it’s the Chinese-Australian man in his 30s, other days it’s […]

Brainfarts

we all live in different times.

we all live in different times. our bodies and minds are processing time differently. a person waits 2 seconds before refreshing their messages on loop like a glitching robot in […]

Influencers

Private Messages from the Field.

Three years in the making, our Open Access Special Issue on digital ethnographic methodological failures, disciplinary posturing, and ethical dilemmas is finally out! Thank you to Journal of Digital Social […]

Influencers

Press: Political makeup videos

I spoke to Paris-based reporter Pierre d’Almeida for MIXTE, a French bi-annual fashion and ideas magazine, about the political power of beauty tutorials on TikTok and YouTube. The interview closely […]

Academica Dramatica

Tacit Labours of Digital Social Research as an Early Career Researcher

It doesn’t get any fresher than Volume 1, Issue 1. […]

Influencers

Minahs and Minority Celebrity.

I have been working on this article since 2016 and it is finally ready to meet the world in Celebrity Studies. It studies YouTube parody Influencers as feminist and anti-racist […]

Influencers

Fieldwork in Seoul & Tokyo (Dec 2019)

In December 2019, I transited from pre-fieldwork prep (previously in Canberra, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney) and started fieldwork properly for my five-year research study on ‘Social Media Influencers and […]

Academica Dramatica

Harper’s Bazaar Australia’s 20 for 2020

I am on Harper’s Bazaar Australia’s 20 for 2020, and […]

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