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Brainfarts

Traveling academics and the guilt from crises at home.

It is 2203hrs and I have urgent tasks to complete […]

Influencers

How social media videos turn children into viral sensations

Moshimoshi folks! I’m thrilled to share this radio interview featuring […]

Influencers

Business Briefing: the ‘get rich quick scheme’ influencing what you buy

Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of speaking to […]

Influencers

Recent developments in the global Influencer industry.

While updating my personal archive of news relating to the […]

Academica Dramatica

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 […]

Internet culture

Slime safety: concerns about the latest online craze

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking to Patricia Karvelas […]

Influencers

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

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

Brainfarts

First touches.

handshake NOUN 1 An act of shaking a person’s hand with one’s own, used as a greeting or to finalize an agreement. – Oxford Dictionaries

Brainfarts

Reprogramming my body out of grief.

Between January and February this year, I ate Japanese food for 35 consecutive days in Singapore. Using food, place, and other materialities as placeholders for my sister, I was trying […]

Academica Dramatica

Ten days in the life of an anthropologist on fieldwork.

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

Academica Dramatica

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 […]

Influencers

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

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

Influencers

Micro-microcelebrity: Famous Babies and Business on the Internet

Ten years ago, as a teenager in junior college, I […]

Brainfarts

Stimuli.

I’ve been thinking about how bodies react to stressful situations or fall into PTSD, and how private and public struggles compound each other. There are many challenging and difficult things […]

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 […]

Academica Dramatica

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 […]

Talks

Sydney in December.

Moshimoshi folks, I am giving a few talks at various events in Sydney this December. If you’re in town, please come by to say hi! I’m presenting preliminary findings from […]

Academica Dramatica

Remembering care in times of academic rejection.

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

Internet culture

From Subversive Frivolity to Normativity: A lineage of Trump memes

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

Brainfarts

Things a Singaporean appreciates about the US Presidential Elections.

I am a Singaporean woman in my late 20s. To date, […]

Brainfarts

Global politics is micropolitics.

I’ve just spent ten minutes waiting for a bus on campus in Singapore and overheard students say these things with respect to the election results: 1) “It’s not gonna affect […]

Brainfarts

Parochial anxiety.

Many world leaders have issued official congratulations to the new president dude on social media, as has the Prime Minister of Singapore – a tiny country of 5 million that […]

Brainfarts

Grammar.

Today, I am 28 years 7 months and 23 days old. Today, my sister would have been 23 years 10 months and 23 days old. Instead, she will always be […]

Coupling

The tangible things about LDR with an academic.

Yesterday, I read this article about people who live with/are […]

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 […]

Academica Dramatica

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 […]

Internet culture

Pen Pineapple Apple Pen and the Lifecycle of Internet Virality

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

Influencers

Procrastiprogress updates from the cave VI.

Moshimoshi folks, I can’t believe it’s already the end of September. This month has been hectic but fulfilling. I finally attended my PhD Convocation ceremony, 13 months after I had […]

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