Genealogies: Writing, Research, and Influencers
I recently published a journal article on micro-microcelebrity (pdf | […]
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 […]
IR16 Fame and Microcelebrity on the Web
Moshimoshi Internet researchers of the world, We’re less than ten days to IR16. Are you ready? *throws confetti* I hope you’re as psyched as I am to be reuniting with […]
LDRs and affective technologies
This year, I have been traveling a lot for work. I have grown used to asking for a table for one. And ordering ice-cream for one. I have known my […]
Resources on Memes
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The Internet is my home.
I feel so disoriented at this point that I am convinced the only constant scape in my life is the Internet. There I know the buttons and the plumbing. Here […]
Behind the scenes: On surviving four days of viral hate.
On 23 March 2015, I published this post cataloging very […]
Mr Lee Kuan Yew and the spectacle of death: The first twelve hours on social media
27Mar15 edit: My thoughts on the viral hate here. 24Mar15 0345hrs […]
Emoji epistemology.
Emoji diversity is old news. The Unicode Consortium proposed recommendations for the interoperability of emoji across platforms in late 2014. Customizable ethnically-diverse emoji representations are on the way. Inter-platform emoji […]
Commerce on Instagram
This is the third and final installment of a series on Instagram. Part one on The Great Instagram Purge and part two on Authenticity on Instagram now concludes with Commerce on […]
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? […]
This is how Tumblr is responding to my null searches:
This is how Tumblr is responding to my null searches: […]
The Anatomy of a Social Media(ted) Protest: #OccupyCentral on Instagram
I manually track the #OccupyCentral tag on Instagram over 72hrs […]
Microcelebrity Social Media Selfies
Reflecting on Week three of The Selfie Course on selfies and microcelebrity, I thought I would share my take on the types of heterosexual feminine scripts microcelebrity social media personalities in […]
I catalogued the ads Twitter fed me over 24 hours.
21Aug14 0206hrs @wishcrys Hey #Twitter, you’re doing it wrong. Jamming […]
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