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Appointed to Editorial Board of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

I am happy to share that in October 2021, I […]

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; […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Tacit Labours of Digital Social Research as an Early Career Researcher

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

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Harper’s Bazaar Australia’s 20 for 2020

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

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Navigating Interdisciplinarity as a Precarious Early Career Researcher.

Rather bittersweet to share that my final article for 2019 […]

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Transparently documenting additional academic labours.

This year, I have been diligently housekeeping a list of […]

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new job <3

Pusheen says hi from my new office where I am Senior Research Fellow in Internet Studies at Curtin University. Feel free to drop by and offer me more Pusheen if […]

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‘Internet Celebrity’ Book Acknowledgements.

My first book, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online, was published two weeks […]

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MA and PhD theses on cultures of internet celebrity.

Moshimoshi folks, I have just spent several days poring through […]

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Readings on the politics of knowledge production.

Moshimoshi friends, I am feeling a little brave after writing […]

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Internal monologues from conferencing as a POC ECR.

Stimuli: “You are really confident for a Chinese student!” Immediate […]

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Hi folks, I am super honoured to be named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018 list for Media, Marketing & Advertising. Representing academia is your friendly neighbourhood anthropologist: “Crystal […]

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Academia and the refusal of overwork culture.

A culmination of events from last year led me to feel extremely devalued in academia. In response, I decided I needed to set some ground rules for myself and my […]

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2018.

Hello internet, I am back. After the longest break I have taken from work since 2011, I finally returned to work today.

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Slowing down.

Last Tuesday, in our airbnb in Adelaide where we were attending an anthropology conference, J and I mused about conference fatigue, academic precarity, and our plans for the future. And […]

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Housekeeping transient intimacies.

I feel like my heart is being squeezed. I am feeling a lot of things. /I feel like Stéphane, snuggled on the mattress, holding Stéphanie’s hand, quietly drifting into lucid dreaming […]

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A list of my conferencing ethics.

I am going to brainfart a list of my conferencing ethics: 1) Shout out work of early career scholars. 2) If you see an early career researcher struggling to connect […]

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Confessions from a young woman academic in five parts:

Context: I wrote this some time ago in the past […]

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Auto-replies: What you read vs. What I mean

This year, I used email auto-replies for the first time. * What you read: “Hi, Thank you for your email. Both my office PC and my personal laptop have crashed […]

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Ten days in the life of an anthropologist on fieldwork.

As an anthropologist of internet culture, I am often asked […]

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Academic women and mentoring.

In the last three months, I’ve been approached by eight or so (prospective) postgrads around the world who wanted advice on academia and their research projects. I don’t consider myself […]

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Procrastiprogress updates from the cave VII.

Moshimoshi folks, How has your 2016 been? This is the last procrastiprogress update for the year! It’s been a bumper crop year for me in terms of academic writing despite […]

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Remembering care in times of academic rejection.

At the risk of committing yet another academic faux pas, […]

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Conference camaraderie.

I always appreciate my good friends in academia extra much during conferences: 1) I like that there is always a backchannel or conversational thread in which we muse about little […]

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How to make peace with academia.

1) Acknowledge that the system is broken 2) Recognize that meritocracy is a farce 3) Admit that branding genealogy is a cult 4) Find your safe spaces and allies 5) […]

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Academic life one year post-thesis submission.

I submitted my thesis one year ago today. It was […]

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Procrastiprogress updates from the cave V.

Moshimoshi folks! How have you been? Since the last procrastiprogress update, I’ve casually gotten married, gone on a kickass sunny honeymoon, and started postdoc #1 in a new country. My […]

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Academica Dramatica

Appointed to Editorial Board of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

lessons from/for my work life.

Canon, Status, and Gatekeeping in Academia

read / seen / mark as unread

One year @ Curtin

Tacit Labours of Digital Social Research as an Early Career Researcher

Harper’s Bazaar Australia’s 20 for 2020

Navigating Interdisciplinarity as a Precarious Early Career Researcher.

Transparently documenting additional academic labours.

new job <3

‘Internet Celebrity’ Book Acknowledgements.

MA and PhD theses on cultures of internet celebrity.

Readings on the politics of knowledge production.

Internal monologues from conferencing as a POC ECR.

Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018.

Academia and the refusal of overwork culture.

2018.

Slowing down.

Housekeeping transient intimacies.

A list of my conferencing ethics.

Confessions from a young woman academic in five parts:

Auto-replies: What you read vs. What I mean

Ten days in the life of an anthropologist on fieldwork.

Academic women and mentoring.

Procrastiprogress updates from the cave VII.

Remembering care in times of academic rejection.

Conference camaraderie.

How to make peace with academia.

Academic life one year post-thesis submission.

Procrastiprogress updates from the cave V.