Internet culture

Influencers

When exploiting kids for cash goes wrong on YouTube: the lessons of DaddyOFive

In light of the recent DaddyOFive controversy, Tama Leaver and […]

Influencers

YouTuber Influencers vs. Legacy Media: PewDiePie, Weaponized microcelebrity, and Cross-media politics

Last week, Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an article and […]

Internet culture

MeituXiuxiu, Cultural diffusion, and Asia Exotica

This week my social media feeds have been flooded with […]

Internet culture

Code-switching and linguistic acrobatics on the internet

When I was conference-hopping last month, I caught up with […]

Internet culture

From Subversive Frivolity to Normativity: A lineage of Trump memes

The internet has been saturated with Trump memes. Some times they […]

Internet culture

Young People and Grief in Digital Spaces

Where do young people go to when they grief? Do they cry alone in their bedrooms? Do they logon to the internet? How do young people in grief find each […]

Internet culture

Pen Pineapple Apple Pen and the Lifecycle of Internet Virality

This is the Pen Pineapple Apple Pen (PPAP) song that […]

Influencers

2006-2016: From Lonelygirl15 to Lil Miquela.

Over the past week, the great resource hive that is the Association of Internet Researchers mailing list resurfaced discussions on Lonelygirl15; my Sociology of Popular Culture students discussed the Marina Joyce […]

Influencers

Gross is the new like? Grotesque microcelebrity and carnivalesque commerce

(This was first published on Cyborgology on 24 August 2016.) […]

Heritage

Joseph Schooling and the rush to backstory a champion

This post is a follow-up to “Joseph Schooling and the […]

Heritage

Joseph Schooling and the politics of belonging in Singapore

You guys, it’s Singapore first gold Olympic medal ever and […]

Heritage

Singaporeans react to the National Day Parade #NDP2016 on Twitter

Singapore’s National Day Parade took place yesterday on 9th August […]

Influencers

A few shifts in the Influencer industry

Today, Instagram decided to introduce “Stories“. Admittedly a copy of Snapchat’s Stories, Instagram writes: With Instagram Stories, you don’t have to worry about overposting. Instead, you can share as much […]

Academica Dramatica

Procrastiprogress updates from the cave III.

Moshimoshi folks! How has your May been? This month has been pretty tough on me, but we all learn to get by and do life as it comes our way. I […]

Internet culture

Outages, Corporate communications, and Customer service.

Imagine you are a corporate entity. Your officious websites are […]

Film & TV

Eyewitness virality, Racism, and Journalistic responsibility

Last week, I spoke with a reporter regarding the Internet […]

Academica Dramatica

Facebook, Workbook.

My favourite things about using Facebook for collaborative academic work: 1) Intermittent intimacies, when my peers truncate conversations with mundane life updates (i.e. childminding, chores, daily crises). We see […]

Internet culture

Textual intimacies, Faux Pas, and Truncative Devices.

My colleague Jenny Kennedy and I are starting a project […]

Influencers

Genealogies: Writing, Research, and Influencers

I recently published a journal article on micro-microcelebrity (pdf | […]

Influencers

Digital detox, Media panics, and What’s next.

This continues from my earlier post on Essena O’Neill, Authenticity, and […]

Influencers

Essena O’Neill, Authenticity, and Vlog Wars.

Edit: Part two here – Digital detox, Media panics, and What’s […]

Internet culture

Ode to email.

We use verbal phrases like “drop you an email” and “flick you an email” but really, emails are hard work, no? Length and content reciprocity are important, because who’d appreciate […]

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