Instagram

Making Sense of Our Digital Lives

My latest publication was more fun than usual to put together, as I collaborated with artists & illustrators to create a visual and more accessible way to understand social media […]

Influencers

How social media Influencers are shaping Singapore’s GE2020

GE2006 was the “internet elections” for the emergence of political […]

Influencers

Singaporean influencers and COVID-19 on Instagram Stories.

Last week I had the privilege of being invited to […]

Influencers

Podcast: Stage Mums of Social Media

Last week, the good people at Mamamia invited me to speak (among others) on their podcast highlighting the phenomenon of Stage Mums of Social Media. If you wish, the episode […]

Internet culture

Live radio: World Emoji Day & Hidden Instagram Likes

Last week, I got to chat on live radio with […]

Talks

Keynoting at the Instagram Conference 2018, London

Hi folks! I’m honoured to be keynoting at a conference […]

Influencers

Micro-microcelebrity: Famous Babies and Business on the Internet

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

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 […]

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 […]

Heritage

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 […]

Influencers

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 […]

Internet culture

Instagramming Instagram’s Downtime

Instagram, Facebook, and Tindr experienced downtime around 1415hrs (GMT+8) on 28 January 2015. While the causes of the disruption are still being debated, the momentary disconnection (it was less than […]

Internet culture

#JeSuisAhmed speaks back to #JeSuisCharlie on Instagram

As a response to my earlier tracking of the #CharlieHedbo […]

Internet culture

Memetic Tropes on #CharlieHedbo on Instagram

I manually archive the artwork and memes published on the #CharlieHedbo hashtag on Instagram over three hours (8 January 15, 1700-2000hrs, GMT+8) and code the memetic tropes of populism. While […]

Influencers

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 […]

Influencers

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? […]

Influencers

The Great Instagram Purge: Chaos, Currency, and Commerciality

This week’s Internet crisis has been brought to you by […]

Teaching

Resources on Instagram

This page is now being updated here: https://wishcrys.com/instagram/

Influencers

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 […]

Influencers

Establishing blogger social currency through hashtags and tags.

Although they broadcast to readers primarily on their blogs, commercial […]