Into the Social Media Maelstrom
After six months studying at Cambridge, the time has come to undertake a final dissertation project. As an M. Phil in Modern Society and Global Transformation (just Sociology really), I have been...
View ArticleThoughts on a Master’s Dissertation
A few months ago, I undertook a study of contemporary social media through a sociological study of the iPhone instagram app. The research project was multidimensional: I used the app for four-weeks,...
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I’m as happy as anyone that 15 year olds love Snapchat. But what does that mean? If you’re the Disney Channel or 16 Handles, it means investing some time and energy realizing the platform as a powerful...
View ArticleFires from Friends: The Social Hearth
I recently transformed my non-functioning fireplace into an interactive sculpture. When one of 18 close friends share a photo or video to Instagram, it shares that light across the web into my living...
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