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Authenticity on Instagram

Since its creation in 2010, Instagram has become an aesthetically stylized site for photosharing, microblogging, networking, and commercial exchange. Instagram’s philosophy is listed on its FAQ page: What is Instagram? […]

Academica Dramatica

Academia x arrested development.

All my friends are acquiring property, and I’m just sitting here slowly getting through grad school.

Everyday ethnographies

Grandmotherly Folklore

My grandmother is a woman of many stories. If you spend an afternoon with her negotiating Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Teochew, or Hakka, she might even go into what she was wearing […]

Influencers

The Great Instagram Purge: Chaos, Currency, and Commerciality

This week’s Internet crisis has been brought to you by […]

Academica Dramatica

Class of 2011 strikes back.

We’re back in our hood, homies! Look at my soci bro being all hardworking and stuff. Also, thanks, class of 2014, for letting us camp out in the Honours Room. Sincerely, […]

Influencers

The Lifecycle of Privacy Among Microcelebrity Bloggers

Author’s Note: Here are some early thoughts on privacy as […]

Film & TV

Negotiating love and life on Fei Cheng Wu Rao/If You Are The One – (9) Existential navigations

This is the last installment of a series of 9 […]

Internet culture

This is how Tumblr is responding to my null searches:

This is how Tumblr is responding to my null searches: […]

Heritage

Photologuing Ingestion: Man vs. Nature

Photologuing Ingestion: Man vs. Nature The Avenue, Crawley, Western Australia December 2014

Film & TV

Negotiating love and life on Fei Cheng Wu Rao/If You Are The One – (8) Personal interests and abstract metaphors

This is part 8 of a series of 9 blogposts. […]

Heritage

Singapura Musica: Popular Music in Singapore

This is a compilation of all my favourite things about music in Singapore. Inspired by an awkward 8-minute conversation I held with a senior Singaporean lady five mornings ago. (It turns […]

Academica Dramatica

Academic genealogies, networks, and affect: team #CCIWS13 ftw

[Note: Extremely wordy and somewhat convoluted personal map to follow. […]

Galleries

If I was white

I was over at the National Gallery of Victoria this weekend and was deeply provoked by a beautiful piece from Vernon Ah Kee, Kuku Yalanji, Waanyi, Koko Berrin, Yidindji, and Gugu Yimithirr. If I […]

Brainfarts

Ambient Verbs

Sometimes people speak of the gold of silence and riots on empty streets. But the world is noisy. People write each other badly rhymed love songs inspired by the 90s […]

Academica Dramatica

Standing on the shoulders of giants.

I have been conference/symposium/masterclass marathoning of late. And accumulating soundbites, as usual. Meeting new people is always equal parts fun, exciting, and awkward for me. Amidst the rapid fire stimulation, […]

Academica Dramatica

It is 53 days to 2015.

Only 01 batch of marking 01 conference 03 travels 06 flights 03 revise & resubmits 03 new articles 04 thesis chapters to go. Time to kick butt. Autobots, roll out!

Everyday ethnographies

Lessons from my grandmother.

1) Stop calling me ahmah. You should be calling me popo. 2) Don’t cut your hair. Your body took a lot of effort to grow it this long. 3) You […]

Internet culture

In defence of the selfie

I recently had the privilege of speaking with Cassie McCullagh of ABC Radio National on selfie culture. We chatted about popular perceptions of selfies, and their productive potential in political […]

Film & TV

Negotiating love and life on Fei Cheng Wu Rao/If You Are The One – (7) Gendered imaginaries

This is part 7 of a series of 9 blogposts. […]

Academica Dramatica

#digcult14 was very tweetable.

“IF THERE IS A FIRE, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE.” /Fire safety 101, nice and easy “CYBER-SEX IS SO 1990s.” “WHO DOESN’T WANT TO BE A SUPERHERO.” “PULL YOUR SKIRT DOWN […]

Film & TV

Negotiating love and life on Fei Cheng Wu Rao/If You Are The One – (6) Self-identity

This is part 6 of a series of 9 blogposts. […]

Film & TV

Negotiating love and life on Fei Cheng Wu Rao/If You Are The One – (5) Family life

This is part 5 of a series of 9 blogposts. […]

Everyday ethnographies

机场安慰

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Film & TV

Negotiating love and life on Fei Cheng Wu Rao/If You Are The One – (4) Demographical compatibility

This is part 4 of a series of 9 blogposts. […]

Film & TV

Negotiating love and life on Fei Cheng Wu Rao/If You Are The One – (3) The body specific

This is part 3 of a series of 9 blogposts. […]

Film & TV

Negotiating love and life on Fei Cheng Wu Rao/If You Are The One – (2) The physical

This is part 2 of a series of 9 blogposts. […]

Film & TV

Negotiating love and life on Fei Cheng Wu Rao/If You Are The One – (1) Introduction

If you have not heard of Fei Cheng Wu Rao […]

Academica Dramatica

Keep on keeping on.

Before the year is up, I will: 1) Produce a full draft of my thesis 2) Present at four conferences 3) Finish up four new/R&R publications 4) Grade two rounds […]

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