Twitter – WISHCRYS

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 […]

Internet culture

K-pop social media, (Anti-)fan labour, and Networks of (mis)information

I am an anthropologist of young people’s internet cultures and […]

Heritage

#RIPSRNathan and Young People’s Social Memory On Twitter

At 2204hrs on 22 August 2016, Channel News Asia broke […]

Heritage

Singaporeans react to the National Day Parade #NDP2016 on Twitter

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

Internet culture

Outages, Corporate communications, and Customer service.

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

Internet culture

Racial discourse and news coverage of the NDR2015 on Twitter.

Singapore’s National Day Rally 2015, the equivalent of the State […]

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 […]

Internet culture

I catalogued the ads Twitter fed me over 24 hours.

21Aug14 0206hrs @wishcrys Hey #Twitter, you’re doing it wrong. Jamming […]

Influencers

In today’s episode of a day in the life of a Social Media scholar…

Closely tracking the social currency of Dashiel Marquet Sayre, newborn of […]

Influencers

Establishing blogger social currency through hashtags and tags.

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