March & April in Boras, Jönköping, Manchester.
Greetings, netizens of Böras, Jönköping, and Manchester! I’ll be heading […]
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 […]
Taking stock: 18 weeks to go.
So, as time has willed, I’m already at the halfway mark of my stint with the MMTC. This also means it’s eighteen weeks till the submission of my thesis. ermergerd. I […]
When you travel alone through foreign cities as a young woman,
I think I might have developed some muscle memory from […]
March in Paris & Trondheim.
Moshimoshi, good people of Paris and Trondheim! Am passing through your city to talk about digital anthropology and smartphone anxiety, ‘cute’ Internet culture, and run a pedagogical workshop on selfie […]
I think kindness in academia is underrated.
I’ve just spent the last five weeks meeting an assortment of academics in Jönköping, Borås, Stockholm, and Göteborg at seminars, in meetings, at fika, and once on a public bus. As […]
Kids say the darndest things
Germaine: “Aunty Crystal, so when you graduate you are going to be a doctor?” Sheryl: “Can you cure people?” Megan: “Huh you’re going to be a doctor? Then you must […]
Job-hunting.
At present, my inbox is just email after email of rejection letters. Also known as rites of passage in academia and life.
It’s a blog eat blog world
This post was first published on Asian Creative Transformations, 6 February 2015 Drama and disorder in the Singaporean webscape I spent all of Christmas 2014 and New Year 2015 conducting […]
I don’t want to be an armchair anthropologist.
I keep meeting people who think any one can be/is […]
February in Stockholm.
Dear good people of Stockholm, I’ll be lurking around your city to give three talks on various aspects of Internet culture. See you there? PS: Thank you magical fairies, Rebekah, […]
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Week one.
I finally made it to Jönköping after a 31-hour commute over three flights and a bus ride, transiting from 37*C to -3*C. My coldest night here has been -8*C. My friends back […]
Biracials speak out! The inside world of everyday chameleons.
This post was first published on PopAnth, 3 February 2015. […]
Academica Dramatica x Art
Crystal Abidin Dissecting a Review, 2014 Ink on paper 21cm x 29.7cm
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 […]
What’s on my mind?
What’s on my mind is how is today Saturday and why is there weekend inertia and why are all the contexts collapsing because life is very mysterious.
Photologuing affect.
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fieldnotes: Body labour and selfies
“In the flesh, these microcelebrities seem to have mastered the practice of displaying their camera ready face – head slightly tilted to emphasize oneʼs chin and elongate the face; eyebrows slightly […]
Red.
I have a project proposal! I have a project proposal! Now, to make all this scribbling sound smart on paper… Lying on my side and free-writing is surprisingly productive for […]
Academica Dramatica x To-do Lists
Academic pals, we have survived yet another year! This is your friendly neighbourhood reminder that to-do lists are forever. Hypothesis: To-do lists are abysses. Test: Have been slowly striking things […]
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 […]
Academic behind-the-scenes: Conceptualizing a blogpost.
Notebook 01: Running catalogue of paper ideas to be developed […]
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